SF News Marauding Groups of Looters Target Multiple Retail Stores Across the East Bay A memo seems to have gone out to would-be looters that this week was going to be a good time to hit some stores in the East Bay, with a CVS, a Big 5, and a sneaker shop all targeted.
SF News Bay Area May Tell Inbound Travelers to Quarantine For 14 Days Health officers in the nine Bay Area counties will be meeting Thursday to discuss possibly instituting a 14-day quarantine rule for all those traveling here from parts of the country that are experiencing surges in COVID-19 cases — similar to one instituted in New York State.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Vote Counts Continue Amid Various Protests Protests erupt across the country demanding to "count every vote" and also to "stop the count," the District 1 supervisor's race in SF is still too close to call, and Biden appears to have an edge with remaining votes being counted in four states.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lori Loughlin Begins Prison Sentence In the East Bay Trump is now suing three states in a bid to stop votes for Biden getting counted, the rise in COVID cases in California isn't a "surge" according to the top health official, and Lori Loughlin began her prison sentence in Dublin under unpleasant circumstances.
SF News Contra Costa Becomes First Bay Area County to Roll Back Reopening Rules As It Faces Backward Slide to 'Red' Tier Contra Costa County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county would be ratcheting back its rules on some higher risk business activities, decreasing capacity for restaurants and movie theaters as it faces a possible move back to "Red" tier status next week.
Arts & Entertainment RIP O'Farrell Theatre, the Mitchell Brothers' Infamous Tenderloin Strip Club What began as one of many seedy adult-movie houses in the Tenderloin in 1969, the O'Farrell Theatre soon grew to prominence as its owners launched a booming porn production business and spruced up the theater into what Hunter S. Thompson famously dubbed "the Carnegie Hall of sex in America."
SF Politics California Ballot Measures: Rent Control Effort Fails, Property Tax Too Close to Call Results are still coming in, but the attempted revision of Prop 13 for commercial property is running slightly behind, and the reinstatement of affirmative action has likely failed.
SF Politics Preston, Peskin, Ronen, & Safai Poised to Keep Supervisor Seats; Wiener Wins Second Term in State Senate The ranked-choice tallying is ongoing on Wednesday for SF's six Board of Supervisors races, but there are several that can probably be called at this point. And former supervisor Scott Wiener handily won reelection to the state Senate with 60% of the vote as of last count.
SF Politics SF Ballot Measure Results: Yeses Lead For Most Local Props, But 16-Year-Olds Not Likely to Get the Vote With results still being tallied for San Francisco's local ballot measures, the writing seems to be on the wall for most of them. SF residents largely voted yes down the ballot — just not for letting 16-year-olds vote.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Issue Statement on Kendrick Bourne’s Positive COVID Test One Day After Latest Roster Boom The 49ers shut down their facility and began contract tracing on Wednesday due to the player's positive test, one day ahead of game against NFC rival Green Bay Packers.
SF News Oakland Sees Night Of Chaos With Multiple Shootings, Pot Burglaries Rumors and fears of potential unrest gave way to at least two burglaries at marijuana businesses in Oakland, one of which led to an officer-involved shooting. Other shootings elsewhere in Oakland resulted in six people being injured.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire in Noe Valley Damages Three Homes, Displaces Six A fire that broke out overnight in Noe Valley spread to three homes and rose to three alarms before being contained around 3:30 a.m.
SF News Election Limbo Headlines: Uber and Lyft Get Their Wish, Prop 22 Passes The dialysis regulation measure Prop 23 appears to be going down, Mark Kelly beat Martha McSally for the Arizona Senate seat, and as promised Facebook and Twitter flagged Trump's false claims about winning the election and the Democrats trying to "steal" it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supes Approve Healthcare Ordinance for SFO Workers Bayfair Mall in San Leandro closed over election night looting fears, Marin County had more polling place volunteers than they knew what to do with, and a QAnon crazy has won a Georgia House seat.
Arts & Entertainment Previously Selected Maya Angelou Monument Reinstated, Planned For Civic Center Installation A tedious battle at City Hall over the selection of an appropriate monument to poet, author, and onetime San Francisco resident Maya Angelou has seemingly been resolved, and a monument that was selected by committee over a year ago and then rejected has been reinstated.
Business & Tech Waymo Has Taken Its Self-Driving Fleet Off SF Streets Out of Concern For Post-Election Chaos Safety drivers who are piloting Waymo's self-driving cars around San Francisco as part of a testing program that has been ongoing for several years were instructed on Monday to bring the vehicles back to Mountain View.
SF News Quirky, Selfie-Perfect SF Polling Places Include Museum of Ice Cream, The Eagle Leather bar The Eagle, the Museum of Ice Cream, the Balboa Theater and Almanac Beer Co. are filling in as temporary polling places this as San Francisco is set to break turnout records in this bizarre pandemic election.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Local Turtle Self-Soothes With Mango and Worm Salad Our beloved "Officer Edith" at Animal Care & Control has posted a video that you can enjoy as a moment of Zen today — so long as worms don't make you squeamish.
SF News Gas Leak Prompts Shelter-in-Place Order In Upper Haight A gas leak that is now said to be under control caused a brief scare in Haight-Ashbury on Tuesday, perhaps disrupting some residents' plans to get to their polling place.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Coca-Cola Billboard, RIP As we reported last week, the iconic, 83-year-old, two-sided electronic Coca-Cola billboard next to I-80 in SoMa reached the end of its life in SF. And it's now fully gone.
SF News Election Morning Links: Deep Breaths Twitter once again slapped Trump over mail-in voting fear/violence mongering, CBS News spoke to militia groups in Michigan prepping for war, and the New York Times print team is prepping for an uncertain election night and a likely non-decisive front page for Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chevron Refinery Flaring Again A San Francisco firefighter was critically injured in an accident on the job, CHP is seeking help investigating a freeway shooting in the North Bay, and SF is on pace for the biggest election turnout in a century.
SF News After Record-Hot, Record-Dry October, Fall Temperatures Arrive With a Chill This Weekend Enjoy this extended Indian Summer while you can, and in spite of election tension and anxiety. It's all going to change later this week.
SF Politics You Can Vote Right Now, Tonight, Or Anytime on Election Day in Spacious Civic Center Voting Tents Friendly reminder for all those who haven't gotten ballots in the mail yet or don't want to deal with their polling place: You can go to the citywide voting center in front of Bill Graham and it is super convenient and easy.
SF Politics Trump Rallies Caused 30,000 COVID-19 Cases, 700 Deaths, Stanford Study Finds Stanford researchers ran the numbers and linked Trump rallies to 700 deaths, with the depressing kicker that these were “not necessarily among attendees.”
