SF News Upper Great Highway May Reopen to Vehicles Because of 'Unsafe' Traffic Conditions The Upper Great Highway — which has become a promenade for outdoor recreation and civic activism — could open up to cars again after the same SF supervisor who catalyzed its closure raised concerns that the uptick in traffic along nearby roadways has created "unsafe" conditions.
SF News Saturday Links: Controversial COVID-19 Tracing Program Comes to UC Berkeley The SF Opera has moved its annual costume sale online to raise funds for staff, Moschetti coffee roastery in Vallejo has created a blend to commemorate Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, and a pilot COVID-19 tracing program (that utilizes smartphone data) will start Monday at UC Berkeley.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two-Alarm Fire Engulfs Abandoned Building in Oakland An early morning Friday fire burned an empty (and red-tagged) building in Oakland, there will be a new Saturday farmers' market at Lower Polk Plaza starting this weekend, and Rainbow Grocery in the Mission will now offer reservations for safer holiday-season shopping.
SF News Elon Musk Likely Has COVID-19 as SpaceX Launch Gets Delayed Elon Musk, who has spent a good part of this year questioning the rationale behind lockdowns and the severity of COVID-19 on Twitter, may be about to find out for himself what the disease does to a person.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'We Should Have Modeled Better Behavior': Newsom Called Out for Attending French Laundry Dinner Governor Gavin Newsom is facing criticism that he and his wife attended a 12-person dinner at the French Laundry for the birthday of a political advisor last week at which members of at least three households were present.
SF News SFPD Makes Arrest In Violent Tenderloin Kidnapping and Robbery; Suspect Freed Pending Charges An arrest has been made in a case that made headlines from Halloween weekend, in which a 26-year-old man was kidnapped, beaten, shot, robbed, and dumped naked and bleeding by a roadside in San Francisco.
Bay Area Sports Update: Warriors Announce Seemingly Unwise Plan to Allow 9,000 Fans in Chase Center The Golden State Warriors do not even have a schedule for next season yet, but already announced plans to let fans into their arena at 50% capacity in a mere six weeks.
Business & Tech Sutter Health, Other Bay Area Healthcare Systems Purchase Special Freezers For Storing Pfizer's COVID Vaccine In preparation for what's going to be an unprecedented quick rollout of a vaccine that nearly everyone in the country will want, healthcare organizations around the Bay Area are purchasing low-temperature freezers that are capable of storing Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Explains Why Facebook Isn't Banning Steve Bannon, Says Employees Shouldn't Necessarily Fear New Regulation Under Biden In a meeting with Facebook employees this week, Mark Zuckerberg explained why, unlike Twitter, the company had not moved to permanently ban conservative blowhard and onetime White House advisor Steve Bannon from the platform, following those comments about beheading Dr. Fauci.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Contra Costa County Halts Indoor Dining, Closes Indoor Gyms; Santa Clara Also Stops Indoor Dining The latest county announcement about rolling back business openings due to rising COVID case metrics comes from Contra Costa County, which like San Francisco is shutting down all indoor dining indefinitely.
SF News Of Course the Central Subway Is Delayed Again, and Of Course the Pandemic Is to Blame The long-delayed, way over-budget Central Subway project connecting SoMa and Chinatown in San Francisco will not be finished construction before the end of the year, as was last promised. Not that any Muni Metro trains are running right now, but of course it won't.
SF News South Bay Woman Confesses to Embezzlement Scheme, and the Faked Assault and Fire She Set to Cover It Up It's a crime story straight out of a Coen Brothers' script. Authorities in Saratoga this week arrested a 74-year-old San Jose woman in a bizarre cover-up designed to throw them off the trail of an embezzlement scheme in which her employer was the victim.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rain! Golden Gate Bridge tolls may go up to $10 amid a fiscal crisis at the bridge district, two people were detained by the CHP in San Leandro following a road-rage freeway shooting, and the bodies found by a snowplow driver in Mono County have been ID'd.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around the Bay: House of Prime Rib Turns to Takeout SF General is seeking help identifying a patient, four people were stabbed within seven hours in San Francisco Tuesday night, and neighbors of a motel on Lombard Street that is housing the homeless say that there has been an uptick in attempted break-ins.
SF News Alamo Square Gas Leak and Fire Prompt Fulton Street Evacuation The gas leak did catch fire and blazed the Fulton Street sidewalk, and PG&E has cut the gas lines in the neighborhood.
SF News Dublin Teen Harassed Online by Gun Dealer For Organizing Black Lives Matter Event The gun dealer has since apologized for and taken down his posts with a picture of the teen, with messages like “bring your vests and helmets” and “get ready for a fun couple hours.”
SF Politics San Francisco May Try to Ban Cigarette and Pot Smoking Inside Apartments A new nanny-state ordinance coming from the Board of Supervisors proposes banning all smoking — including vapes and cannabis smoking — in apartment buildings of more than three units.
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SF News SFPD Seeks Motorcyclist Who Struck 90-Year-Old Woman in Diamond Heights Hit-and-Run San Francisco police are seeking the public's help in locating a motorcyclist suspected in a hit-and-run Wednesday afternoon that badly injured a 90-year-old woman.
SF Politics Deluded Trump Supporters Rally In Danville, Insist He Won Reelection Because He Said So Here in the Bay Area we don't need to look further than eastern Contra Costa County to find some Trump supporters who think the election is far from decided.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Endup, Mr. Bing's Among SF Bars That Have Been Shut Down By Health Department for COVID Violations The city has caught almost a dozen bars being loose with COVID rules on multiple occasions and ordered them temporarily shut down. But, like, who's really going to The Endup for dinner?
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: California Nears One Million COVID Cases SF firefighter Matt Vann is being treated for a traumatic brain injury following a Nov. 2 accident, DA Chesa Boudin has been delayed in refiling charges in an infamous police brutality case from 2016, and Santa Cruz is closing the Beach Boardwalk due to rising COVID cases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Man Talks About Getting Pfizer's Vaccine Four out of five Americans accept that Biden won the election according to a new poll, a snowplow driver near Yosemite finds two dead bodies, and a Bay Area man talks about taking part in Pfizer's COVID vaccine trial.
Business & Tech Biden Press Secretary Lambasts Facebook Over Post-Election Misinformation Facebook continues taking it from all sides in this election year, with Democrats generally livid that President Trump continues to have a presence on the platform at all, and conservatives and Trumpists generally annoyed that Facebook has done what little it's done to curb the president's lies.
SF News CA Supreme Court Gets Its First Openly Gay Justice, SF Native Martin Jenkins San Francisco native and former NFL cornerback Martin Jenkins, who has served on the California Court of Appeal for the First District since 2008, just became the fifth-ever Black associate justice named to the California Supreme Court, and the first justice on the court ever to be openly gay.
