SF News Day Around the Bay: Marc Benioff Continues His Trump Turn, Brings Trump Adviser David Sacks to Dreamforce The South Lake Tahoe mayor who allegedly embezzled from a church has resigned; R&B vocalist D’Angelo has died at the age of only 51; and Dreamforce just had a surprise speech from Trump’s crypto czar and fundraiser David Sacks.
SF Politics Trump Yanks Mark Zuckerberg’s Leash Again, Meta Deletes Page That ICE Didn’t Like Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook content moderation had “gone too far” earlier this year, and promised less censorship. Until his boss man Trump told him to censor a Facebook page that ICE complained about, and Zuck quickly complied.
SF News 57-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Randomly Shooting at Strangers on Freeway Last Week The suspect in a series of seemingly random freeway shootings on Highway 24 in Oakland, in which luckily, no one was hurt, has now been charged, and he reportedly has a prior vandalism conviction.
SF News 'California Forever' Folks Return, Now Want to Add Manufacturing Park and 400,000 New Residents to Suisun City If you thought the California Forever plan, concocted by a group of billionaires with the help of a single, visionary CEO, to create a new city in Solano County was dead, you were naive.
SF News That Half-Cent Sales Tax To Save Public Transit From ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Will Indeed Be on the November 2026 Ballot Would you pay a half-cent extra in sales tax so BART and Muni don’t have to slash their service? That choice will be before you in November 2026, as a ballot measure was just approved to help Bay Area transit avoid a ‘fiscal cliff.’
SF News Newsom Signs Bill Allowing Immigrant Parents to Name Caretakers for Their Kids If They’re Deported Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a fairly sensible-sounding bill allowing immigrant parents to name a caregiver for their kids in case they are deported. Crazed conservatives are reacting by calling it the “Legalized Child Kidnapping Bill.”
Business & Tech 50 Waymos Sent to Dead-End SF Street In Prankster's 'DDOS Attack' Local novelty app-maker Riley Walz is on something of a tear, garnering local media attention from the Chronicle and others for the third time in almost as many weeks with a prank on Waymo vehicles.
SF News [Updated] San Mateo County Supervisors Cast Final Vote, Ousting Sheriff Christina Corpus Embattled San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus, who has spent the last year defiantly refusing calls to resign, faced a final vote by county supervisors Tuesday, who voted unanimously for her removal.
SF News SFO Overwhelmed by Flight-Delay Chaos Right as Dreamforce Kicks Off, Nearly Half of Flights Delayed The ‘perfect storm’ of an actual storm, government shutdown short-handedness, and a deluge of Dreamforce attendees left SFO all higgledy-piggledy on Monday, with thousands of travelers facing flight delays and reroutes.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Metallic Balloon Causes East Bay Power Outage Rainfall totals are in from this early October storm; a power outage in Oakland wasn't caused by the storm but by a Mylar balloon; and Walmart announces a new partnership with OpenAI.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Flood Advisories Issued For Much of Bay Area Flood advisories were in effect until evening in multiple Bay Area counties; Kaiser is calling a planned nurses strike "unnecessary"; and airports are refusing to play a TSA video from Kristi Noem about the government shutdown.
SF News California Will Indeed Have Reparations for Descendants of Slaves as Newsom Signs Reparations Bill A newly formed Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery will administer reparations in the state of California after Gavin Newsom just approved that bureau’s creation, but there’s still no word on what the reparations will look like.
Business & Tech Benioff Walks Back National Guard Comment as Salesforce Pledges $15B Investment In San Francisco The crisis PR team over at Salesforce has been working overtime since CEO Marc Benioff went full Trumpy in a New York Times interview Friday, going so far as to say he'd welcome the National Guard being illegally deployed in San Francisco.
SF News Union Square Macy’s Was Evacuated Saturday Over Reports of an ‘Explosive Device’ Attention Macy’s shoppers, the downtown SF Macy’s was evacuated late Saturday afternoon after reports of an "explosive device,’ though a bomb squad did not find any evidence of explosives, and the store reopened for business Sunday.
SF News CHP Says Speeding Caused April Marin Crash That Killed Four Teens; 16-Year-Old Driver May Face Charges The California Highway Patrol is telling a whole different story than the two teens who survived a fatal crash in Marin County this April, saying that the 16-year-old driver was speeding, and recommending vehicular manslaughter charges.
Arts & Entertainment Hitmaker Dua Lipa Delights Chase Center Audience, Pays Tribute to Janis Joplin and Green Day Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong surprised the audience at Dua Lipa's Chase Center show Sunday, coming out to duet with her on "Wake Me When September Ends." And the previous night, Lipa did a cover of "Piece of My Heart" by Janis Joplin.
Arts & Entertainment Ginormous Gourds Compete In Half Moon Bay for Annual Pumpkin Weigh-Off; Winner Is From Santa Rosa The 52nd annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off happened Monday morning in Half Moon Bay, and great big pumpkins vied for this year's title.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Get Whomped 30-19 In Tampa Bay, Lose Star Linebacker to Injury for the Rest of the Season The 49ers not only lost the game Sunday to the Buccaneers, they continued their frustrating pattern of losing one of their best players to injury seemingly every week, and All-Pro linebacker Fred Warner is now done for the season.
SF Politics Recall Fever Comes to Fairfax, and It's All Over One Proposed Building If you ask Fairfax Mayor Lisel Blash, she doesn't love the idea of a 243-unit apartment building coming to her small Marin County town either. But the state has made such developments inevitabilities after decades of NIMBYism in places like Fairfax.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Here Comes the Rain Again SF supervisors push back on Marc Benioff's National Guard comments; fewer Bay Area workers are working remotely; and the first significant rain of the season is rolling in.
Arts & Entertainment Spike Lee Receives Mill Valley Film Fest Award, Suddenly Recalls He Made ‘Sucker Free City’ Esteemed filmmaker Spike Lee received a Tribute Award at the Mill Valley Film Festival this weekend. While on stage with Oakland-based actor Delroy Lindo, who starred in four of Lee’s films, Lee suddenly remembered he directed the 2004 film 'Sucker Free City.'
SF News Musk Jumps Into Benioff’s National Guard Discussion With SF ‘Drug-Zombie Apocalypse’ Trope Elon Musk recycled one of his tired, old ‘SF is a [fill in the blank] zombie apocalypse’ insults in an X post supporting Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s statement about sending the National Guard to “clean up” crime in San Francisco.
SF News Trans Santa Rosa Junior College Volleyball Player at the Center of Protests, Title IX Complaint After three former women’s volleyball players filed Title IX complaints against Santa Rosa Junior College last month, the community rallied in support of an unnamed transgender player ahead of a game Wednesday amid ongoing anti-trans protests.
SF News Sunday Links: University of California Wins Record-Breaking Five Nobel Prizes in Single Year One of the victims in Monday’s medical helicopter crash in Sacramento has died; a suspect has been arrested in last week's hit-and-run crash in Bernal Heights; and UC California made history with the most Nobel Prizes in one year for a single institution.
SF News San Francisco's Only Adult LGBTQ Homeless Shelter Doubles Number of Beds, Triples in Size LGBTQ homeless shelter, Jazzie’s Place, received an $18 million city grant to triple its size and increase its beds from 24 to 50, six of them for non-LGBTQ residents. It also added lockers with phone chargers and bathrooms with ADA-accessible showers and changing rooms.
