SF Politics Will the Pandemic Retail Apocalypse Push SF Neighborhoods to Ease Formula Retail Rules? The pandemic and recession may be reason enough to ease at least some of the restrictions that have kept chain stores of all kinds from populating empty retail spaces, now that neighborhoods like Hayes Valley are looking pretty grim.
SF News Cal Fire Races to Contain Remaining Fires Ahead of Weekend Dry Spell A weekend heatwave with a drop in humidity could create hazards as firefighters work to contain what remains of the three major wildfire complexes in the Bay Area.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Suspect In Portland Shooting Killed By Police Alameda parents are upset over a racist online learning program, the SF Sheriff's Department wants to take over SFO duties, and a potentially damaging report emerges about Trump disparaging war dead.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dozens of Bay Area Schools Granted Waivers to Reopen There were two separate homicides in Vallejo last night, a youth theater teacher in Los Gatos was arrested for inappropriate Zoom behavior, and salon owners and others "rallied" outside Pelosi's SF home today.
Business & Tech As Trump Reverses and Recommends Mailing In Ballots and Voting Twice, Twitter Slaps Label On Tweet The President continued his unhinged lunacy on Thursday, changing course in his rhetorical war on mail-in voting by recommending that voters — presumably only those who vote for him — to mail in ballots and then show up in person at polling places as well.
Bay Area Sports U Mad, Bum? Madison Bumgarner Returns to SF Saturday, as an Arizona Diamondback Madison Bumgarner left the Giants in December for $85 million, saying “It’s all about winning.” He hasn’t won a game since, but will try again Saturday at Oracle Park.
SF News 'Excessive Heat Warning' Issued For Much of Bay Area on Saturday; Smoke May Only Be Temporarily Clearing The latest heatwave headed our way is coming with an "excessive heat warning" covering much of the Bay Area that begins on Saturday morning. And San Franciscans shouldn't get complacent — remember Labor Day Weekend three years ago when the forecasts were 20 degrees off?
SF News Alameda County Leads Bay Area In Deadliest Two Days of the Pandemic So Far Alameda County added 17 new COVID-related deaths on Wednesday and 21 on Thursday, the highest two-day total of any Bay Area county since the pandemic began.
Business & Tech Facebook Says It Will 'Restrict' Political Ads In the Last Week Before Election, Fact-Check When Trump Tries to Declare Victory Early Admitting that the platform could play a role in destroying democracy as we know it, Facebook says it will limit or restrict new political ads in the week leading up to the election in November.
SF News Hairstylist Backs Up Nancy's Story, Claims Salon Owner Has Been Operating Indoors Illegally for Months The drama escalated after the stylist who had taken the appointment with the speaker issued a statement — through a lawyer — laying out a few claims of his own about Erica Kious, the salon owner who sent surveillance video of Pelosi to Fox News.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Day-Trippers Told To Stay Away From Point Reyes Tracking the Hennessey Fire's rapid spread two weeks ago, a National Guardsman had to be rescued in Sonoma County after a fall, and casinos are reopening for outdoor gambling in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CDC Tells States To Be Ready For Pre-Election Vaccine That May Happen Post-Election Trump is clearly trying to use the CDC to legitimize his claims that a COVID vaccine will be ready very soon, California is adjusting its ratings for counties that are doing extra testing, and a San Leandro police officer has been charged with manslaughter for Walmart shooting.
SF News LNU and SCU Fire Complexes Top 70-Percent Containment The LNU Lightning Complex fires in Sonoma, Napa and several other counties has reached 76-percent containment as Wednesday, with full containment estimated by early next week. The slightly larger SCU Lightning Complex stood at 72-percent contained as of midday.
SF Politics Supervisor Haney Floats a Universal Basic Income Program for SF Matt Haney is calling for a San Francisco guaranteed income, but did not say how much money people would get, and merely hoped the funding would come from a “private philanthropist foundation or something else.”
SF News Hey Chatty Cathys: Talking To Strangers In Grocery Stores Helps Spread COVID There is public health advice, from experts, confirming that unnecessary chit-chat in public can actually be deadly, even with masks on.
SF News SF Gym Owners Call Out City For Allowing City-Worker Gyms to Open When They Can't Indoor gyms that serve San Francisco police officers and other government employees have reopened for workouts for limited numbers of people at a time, and San Francisco gym and fitness studio owners are decrying this as hypocritical when they are forced to remain closed.
SF News Op-Ed: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Oakland Schools Face Reopening Dilemma The city will need extra assistance and supplies from the state if it's ever going to reopen schools safely, in one of the hardest-hit cities in the state by COVID-19.
SF Politics Fresno-Based Salon Owner Behind Leak Of Maskless Pelosi Photo At SF Hair Salon A Fresno-based hair stylist and salon owner says she was "outraged" when one of her freelance stylists told her she would be accepting a blowout appointment with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the Union Street salon she owns. And that's why she released surveillance footage of Pelosi to Fox News.
SF News What's a Splice? Explaining Why the Muni Metro Is Now Closed For the Rest of 2020 On Tuesday, Muni staff gave a report to the SFMTA Board in which they explained why the Muni Metro system collapsed and shut down again last week after reopening for just three days — and why light-rail trains now won't be running again until next year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Spare the Air Alert Extended as Smoke Is Expected to Stay Facebook and Twitter have shut down a Russian "troll factory" that was employing American freelancers, Pacifica is closing all of its beaches this weekend, and Carole Baskin is going to be on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fox Catches Pelosi In a Hair Salon Without a Mask The Muni Metro is now likely staying closed through the end of the year, Fox News got footage of Nancy Pelosi in a Cow Hollow hair salon without a mask, and bears are getting really brazen in Tahoe.
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho Announced as Host of Virtual Folsom Street Fair Amid a year of postponements and cancellations, it was relieving news when organizers of the 2020 Folsom Street Fair announced in April that this year’s happening would morph into an entirely digital event — one which will now be hosted by author-actor-comedian-extraordinaire Margaret Cho.
Business & Tech Twitter Says It Is Adding 'Context' to Trending Topics; Facebook and Google at War With Australian Government Ahead of the latest U.S. election, Twitter is responding to criticism that one of its defining features, the Trending Topics sidebar, tends to promote misinformation and conspiracies.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Public Health Director: Indoor Dining Not Happening Anytime Soon As expected, Mayor London Breed and Dr. Grant Colfax gave their latest updates today on businesses that are allowed to reopen under public health orders, with September 1 being the latest goalpost for certain categories of businesses.
SF Politics ‘Bad Officers’ Bill Fails in Legislature, Police Won’t Be Stripped of Badges for Misconduct California remains one of five states that won’t strip badges from officers who commit crimes or misconduct, after an attempt to reform that failed to make the Assembly floor.
