SF News Another SF Lab Technician Arrested with Allegedly Lab-Stolen Meth Here we go again, as a this time a Medical Examiner lab analyst has been arrested with narcotics allegedly ripped off from his own lab, and as many as 2,500 cases could be tainted.
Arts & Entertainment British Woman Completes Solo Rowing Trip From SF to Hawaii In 86 Days Despite two capsizes and some harrowing stories of nearly giving up, 40-year-old Lia Ditton just completed a solo row from the San Francisco Bay to Honolulu in 86 days, 11 days longer than she'd planned.
SF News PG&E Admits That Rolling Blackouts In August Were Partly Due to a F**k-Up By Them Even though pre-announced rolling blackouts due to overloads of the electrical grid were not as severe or prolonged as they sounded like they would be last month, PG&E did have to cut off power for some communities due to what they now say was an internal communications error.
SF News Data Shows Black People Are Pulled Over By SF Cops at an Even Higher Rate Than Three Years Ago Data from a recent KGO/ABC 7 investigation shows that Black people continue to be pulled over by SF police at a much higher rate than white people — and higher than even a few years ago.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Air Getting Slightly More Tolerable The deYoung Museum is reopening on September 25, four CHP officers likely exposed to fentanyl on Sunday on the Golden Gate Bridge are out of the hospital, and a doctor says breathing this air is equivalent to 8 cigarettes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ann Getty Dies at 79 Longtime society figure and arts patron Ann Getty died suddenly on Sunday night, there's a movement to put a Black-owned NFL team in Oakland, and SF's gyms and hair salons are happy to be back open.
SF News Amid COVID-19 and Unhealthy Air, PG&E Keeps Saying That Shutoffs Will Be Briefer This Fall The California wildfires have now collectively burned over 3.2 million acres across the state — an area the size of Connecticut — with the August Complex fire still just 30 percent contained. To thwart further catastrophe, PG&E is warning account holders to prepare for more power shutoffs… again.
SF News Another Theory Emerges That Coronavirus Arrived In California In December Another small study out of UCLA suggests that Los Angeles may have seen its first COVID cases before Christmas without anyone realizing it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Pivots To Become Quik Dog, With To-Go Food and a Pared-Down Cocktail Menu Knowing that the pandemic will likely keep the bar itself from reopening indoors anytime soon and crafting its cocktail artistry in keeping with its established brand, Trick Dog is reopening for now under a slightly different guise and concept: Quik Dog.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Immediately Slip To Last In Their Division As Sloppy Play and Costly Coaching Marks Season Opener If the seemingly constant Steve Young-Kyler Murray comparisons weren’t enough to make you throw something at the television, the San Francisco 49ers dropped their home opener to the Arizona Cardinals 20-24 on Sunday afternoon in devastatingly dull fashion.
Business & Tech Oracle Wins TikTok Sweepstakes, Rewarding Trump Donor Larry Ellison Microsoft and Twitter get left at the altar, as the Redwood City-based enterprise software giant with no real experience in social media wins the prized video app that Trump pressured into being sold.
SF News Air Quality in San Francisco May Continue To Suck Until Mid-Week Smoky air looks to be persisting across the Bay Area until the middle of this week, when — finally — some clean ocean air should begin moving, possibly along with a light storm system and some rain.
SF Politics Trump Lands In Sacramento For Wildfire Briefing, Gets Greeted By Protesters Trump was doing his best to seem presidential and look like he cared as he met with state leaders in Sacramento about the wildfire response, and Governor Gavin Newsom did his best not to spit in his face.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Parking Permit Enforcement Resumes In SF Those permit stickers once again mean something for people parking in SF; people can have gym workouts, massages, and haircuts indoors agains starting today; and the 49ers lost to the Cardinals during their smoky season opener.
SF News Four CHP Officers, Three Others Hospitalized For Fentanyl Exposure Following Golden Gate Crash A reportedly impaired driver crashed into a median divider near the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza on Sunday morning, and the incident — apparently due to some quantity of fentanyl inside the vehicle — led to seven people being hospitalized for fentanyl exposure.
With Unhealthy Air Conditions Hanging Over San Francisco, Residents Struggle With Their Mental Health — Isolated Indoors SF’s air quality has remained terrible over the past week, forcing denizens of the city to seek shelter inside — often at the expense of socializing with loved ones, family members, and casual acquaintances. Suffice to say this period of isolation has taken a toll on many people’s mental health.
Arts & Entertainment SF's Iconic Amoeba Music Location To Open Its Doors Again Starting Thursday For Limited Hours The Haight-Ashbury’s retail landscape has been a shell of its former self for well over six months now. But a sliver of pre-pandemic normalcy is slated to come back into the zeitgeist next week when SF's Amoeba Music reopens (for limited hours), allowing vinyl purveyors to sift their stacks.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Businesses Prepare for Monday's New Reopenings People are actively fleeing the Bay Area to escape the hellacious air conditions, BART (being BART) suddenly shut down this morning, and gyms, nail and hair salons, and hotels are readying to reopen for certain indoor services starting tomorrow.
SF News Newsom Signs Bill Clearing Way for Ex-Inmates To Become Professional Firefighters Friday, Governor Newsom (while sitting at an ash-covered picnic table) signed Assembly Bill 2147 into law, allowing inmates who have worked as firefighters to ask for the dismissal of their charges — which will make it feasible for them to become professional firefighters once they're released.
SF News Appeals Filed Against SFMTA and SF Planning Department Put Roadblocks in Front of City's Slow Streets Program Among the few good things to come out of shelter-in-place — which we can collectively say that improved air quality is now no longer on that shortlist — SF's Slow Streets Program is a celebrated nicety. But the initiative is currently facing criticisms for not undergoing environmental review.
SF News Saturday Links: SF Sky Barely Blue — But Air Quality Still 'Unhealthy' Oakland could soon become home to the first Black-owned NFL team, a three-alarm fire at a SoMa woodworking shop early Saturday morning caused no injuries, and the sky above SF this morning is looking a tad normal — but the air quality remains at "unhealthy" levels.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Popular Mission District Cafe and Community Space Manny's Vandalized Manny's in the Mission District was vandalized last night, covidiots are going after SF eateries that uphold face-covering policies on Yelp, and a wayward driver crashed into Fitness SF and Weaver's Coffee & Tea in The Castro early Friday morning.
SF News Bay Area Sees 42 COVID Deaths In One Day, Setting New Record Driven by sudden jumps in death counts in Alameda and Santa Clara counties, the Bay Area's pandemic death toll just took a depressingly big leap on Friday, with 42 new fatalities.
SF News Sonoma Hells Angels Leader Accused In Murder Plot Ordered Released On Bail The leader of the Sonoma chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was ordered released from jail on $1 million bail this week by a federal judge overseeing a RICO prosecution involving multiple club members. The decision is being appealed.
SF News Local Meteorologist Baffled By Extended Days Without Marine Breeze, Partly Caused By Smoke-Blocked Sun Without any wind, firefighters can tame some of the fires burning up and down the West Coast. But without wind, the smoke from those fires just sits over entire regions making the outdoors dangerous, and the built-up smoke blocking the sun's warmth is itself perpetuating the cycle.
