SF News Dear BART, If You Want More Riders on Nights and Weekends, Stop Being Filthy, Slow, and Scary BART can't just wave a magic wand and get riders back as its aging trains and tracks make for some truly unpleasant — if not dangerous — experiences during late-night and off hours.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Admits Relationship With Nuru, As Well As a $5600 'Gift' From Him One supervisor is already calling for Mayor Breed to resign after a fairly explosive Medium post in which she divulged a relationship with the embattled former DPW director, and a potentially improper gift from him last year.
SF Politics Sanders and Buttigieg To Campaign In Northern California This Weekend In another sign that California will actually play a decisive role in this year's primary season — for a change! — 2020 Democratic frontrunners Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders are both heading here to do some campaigning this weekend ahead of Super Tuesday on March 3.
SF News Police Put BART Chain-Attack Suspect On Psychiatric Hold A suspect who allegedly attacked a fellow BART passenger with a chain, unprovoked, on board a train in Oakland Tuesday evening has been arrested, but not yet publicly identified.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: No Charges For Moms 4 Housing Activists A 16-year-old driver helped rescue a man who drove off a cliff on Highway 1, Union City police are announcing an update in the investigation of the homicides of two young boys, and Trump went tweeting about his absolute powers to interfere in the DoJ.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Last Flight From SFO To China Scheduled For Tomorrow Night The last flight from SFO to China for at least six weeks is scheduled to depart tomorrow night, the car burglary suspect that died in yesterday’s high-speed Vallejo police chase has been identified, and this past January was the warmest one ever recorded by NOAA.
SF News Jackie Speier’s Revived Equal Rights Amendment Passes House, Has Tiny Chance in Senate The ERA was OK’d by the House of Representatives Thursday morning, some 50 years after it was introduced Rep. Martha Griffiths (pictured at right).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry's Gardener Aaron Keefer Is Bringing Eco-Conscious Craft Cannabis To Sonoma After being acquired by cannabis agriculturalists Sam Magruder and co-proprietor Gian-Paolo Veronese in 2017, a quaint Petaluma farmstead is gung ho on cultivating a more modern mainstream green — weed.
SF Politics New Bernie Sanders Ad Specifically Comes After PG&E A new three-minute ad from the Bernie Sanders campaign is squarely aimed at Democratic voters in California, and makes the case that only Sanders will have what it takes to fight corporate interests like PG&E that value profits over human life.
Arts & Entertainment 'The SpongeBob Musical' Is Ridiculously Clever and Gloriously Dumb Fun A creative team led by director Tina Landau and a slew of talented pop-star songwriters created a critical darling out of unlikely material, garnering 12 Tony nominations in the 2018 season, and now 'The SpongeBob Musical' is on tour.
SF Politics City Attorney Is Investigating Private Companies That Allegedly 'Funneled' Money to DPW Holiday Parties Subpoenas issued Wednesday by the City Attorney's Office for records and emails from eight private companies and non-profits appear to relate in part to a kids' baseball charity run by indicted local restaurateur Nick Bovis.
SF News Two Pedestrians Critically Injured After Prius Runs Red Light In Mission District A 62-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of felony hit-and-run after his burgundy Prius allegedly plowed through the intersection of 23rd and Mission, clipping a Muni bus and hitting three pedestrians, critically injuring two.
SF News PG&E Equipment Fire Causes Blackout In Hayes Valley and Haight, Shuts Down Ballet A reportedly "small" fire in an underground PG&E vault near the intersection of Laguna and Hayes streets Wednesday night caused a power outage for 9,000 utility customers — including the San Francisco Ballet, performing at the War Memorial Opera House.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFO Reopens Its Observation Deck The star witness in the Hillsborough heiress murder case is now in federal custody, Colin Kaepernick is writing a memoir for Audible, and SFO is about to reopen a public observation deck at Terminal 2 for the first time in 25 years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Attorney Issues Subpoenas to PG&E and Recology Over DPW Scandal The CDC says the coronavirus testing kits sent out to states are "flawed," a San Francisco woman was found dead in a Santa Rosa creek, and the City Attorney's office is making good on its promise of a swift corruption investigation into the DPW scandal.
SF News BART Police Seek Suspect Who Attacked Rider With Chain Just one day into BART's new Ambassador program, a BART rider was attacked and injured by a suspect on board a Daly City-bound train Tuesday evening.
SF Politics California’s Largest-Ever $15 Billion School Bond Ballot Measure, Explained There’s only one state ballot measure on the usually-crowded March 3 election slate, so let’s school ourselves up on what the $15 billion school construction bond proposes to do.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Ghost Kitchen Complex In SoMa Is Making Food For Dozens of Delivery Brands Have you recently ordered food on a delivery app from "American Eclectic Burger," "Fork & Ladle," or "Red Corn Taqueria"? Because these are all ghost restaurants operating out of so-called "ghost kitchens" in SF.
SF Politics Local Republicans File Ballot Measure To Limit New Navigation Centers A couple of rare San Francisco Republicans have drafted a measure for the November ballot that would significantly limit the city's ability to open more homeless Navigation Centers, and limit the operation of all Navigation Centers to a maximum of two years.
Business & Tech Juul Targeted Kids With Web Ads On Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, Lawsuit Claims Juul's annus horribilis looks to be extending into 2020 as a lawsuit has just been filed in Massachusetts with potentially some of the strongest evidence to date that the company was targeting children and teens with its marketing.
SF News Palo Alto Mom and Daughter Return Home After Coronavirus Quarantine in SoCal A Bay Area woman and her daughter were among the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China two weeks ago and sent into quarantine at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside.
SF News Humpday Headlines: PG&E Lays Out Plans for This Year's Power Shutoffs BART has lost almost 10 million riders on nights and weekends, unlicensed contractors nabbed trying to bid on work in Paradise, and yes, PG&E does plan to keep shutting off the power when it's windy and dry this year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Andrew Yang Is Out Berkeley High School students walked out for a second day in a row protesting "rape culture" on campus, an Oakland man was robbed in his driveway Monday afternoon, and Janet Jackson just announced a San Jose stop on her summer tour.
Arts & Entertainment Check Out the Flight Path of the Helicopter During Sunday's 'Matrix 4' Shoot in Downtown SF Thanks to a Twitter bot that does nothing but tweet map details when aircraft are circling over parts of the Bay Area, we have a funny sketch of the flight path of a helicopter that was being used in the 'Matrix 4' shoot in San Francisco's Financial District on Sunday night.
SF News Supervisor Haney Wants To Break Up Public Works, Create New Agency That Just Cleans Streets As shoes keep dropping in the Mohammed Nuru/DPW scandal, Matt Haney proposes making the street-cleaning unit its own separate city department.
