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Prosecutor Says San Francisco Man Admitted Running ‘Silk Road 2.0′
Update 4:05 p.m. Blake Benthall was mostly silent at a federal court hearing in San Francisco this morning, speaking only to waive his right to a hearing that would confirm his identity. “My name is...
View ArticleThe Reading List: CPUC Served With Search Warrant Over PG&E Emails
Things are getting a bit hairy over at the California Public Utilities Commission: The state attorney general’s office has served the agency with a search warrant and seized records in a probe of...
View ArticleCheck Whether Your Vote-By-Mail or Provisional Ballot Has Been Counted Yet
Show us a voter who confidently sends her vote-by-mail ballot into the hands of the U.S. Postal Service and local vote-counting bureaucracy, and we’ll show you an individual with a supreme faith that...
View ArticleSchaaf: Oakland Won’t Make Same Mistake as San Francisco on Housing
Oakland’s Mayor-elect Libby Schaaf sat down with KQED’s Scott Shafer for both KQED Forum and KQED Newsroom today. “The mistake that San Francisco made is we are going to be much more aggressive about...
View ArticleDA Won’t Charge Ray McDonald in Alleged Domestic Violence Incident
Ray McDonald will not be charged with felony domestic abuse stemming from an early-morning, Aug. 31 dispute with his fiancee at his San Jose home. The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said...
View ArticleDaily Digest: Strawberry Fumigant Increases Risk of Cancer
California’s strawberry industry is hooked on dangerous pesticides, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting. Its report says “state pesticide regulators allowed growers to blow through the...
View ArticleCalifornia High-Speed Rail Head Says Project Still on Track Despite GOP
Will the Republican takeover of Congress put a crimp in high-speed rail funding in California? House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield has led the charge against the $68 billion effort to...
View ArticleSF Green Cab Pulls Taxis Off Street, May Go Out of Business
We have been covering the woes of the San Francisco taxi industry for some time now, and here’s another one for you: SF Green Cab, a small worker-owned taxi cooperative founded in 2007, has stopped...
View ArticleDaily Digest: ‘Pregnancy and Childbirth Were Very Male Experiences for Me’
“Pregnancy and childbirth were very male experiences for me,” said a 29-year-old respondent in a study reported Friday in Obstetrics and Gynecology. “When I birthed my children, I was born into...
View ArticleInvestigator of Baby Gorilla Death: S.F. Zoo Needs Dramatic Upgrade
Everyone is still mourning the accidental death Friday of Kabibe, a 16-month-old western lowland gorilla housed at the San Francisco Zoo. You only have to get a gander at some Kabibe photos to start...
View ArticleNew Alameda Mayor Trish Spencer Wants ‘Cautious’ Development
Alameda Mayor Marie Gilmore has conceded in her race against challenger Trish Spencer. After an update by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters late last night, Spencer led Gilmore by 129 votes....
View ArticleDaily Digest: Crowdsourced Commuter Vans Serving San Francisco’s Marina
Probably nobody in San Francisco would ever dream of criticizing something like this, but a company called Chariot will launch a new commuter van line from San Francisco’s Marina, Cow Hollow and...
View ArticleMorning Digest: 8 Stories You Should Know Today
Your morning news roundup …. List of 28 chronically underperforming schools in Silicon Valley stirs up storm (SJ Mercury News) A Silicon Valley advocacy group on Wednesday released its latest list of...
View ArticleMeet Catherine Baker, Bay Area’s Only Republican Assemblymember
The Bay Area politically is deep. deep blue, but now it has a patch of red on its east side. That’s because Republican Catherine Baker won the open seat last week in Assembly District 16, covering...
View ArticleAs Regulatory Battles Continue, Uber and Lyft Win Some, Lose Some
Every once in a while, we like to do a roundup of what’s happening in terms of the great ride-service war going on around the country. Uber and Lyft, both based in San Francisco, keep expanding...
View ArticleMorning Digest: 9 Stories You Should Know Today
California drought not likely to end this winter, experts say (SJ Mercury News) …It may be raining this week, but unless near-record rain falls between now and next spring, it’s likely the drought...
View ArticleSan Jose’s Liccardo Says City Still Going After A’s
Incoming San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo sat down with KQED Newsroom’s Scott Shafer this morning and spoke about healing the rift with public employee unions, competing with San Francisco for tech jobs and...
View ArticleThe Great Panda Hunt: Can the Giants Keep Pablo Sandoval?
We’re close to Thanksgiving, so let’s talk turkey on Panda. We hear the San Diego Padres are the latest team to express interest in signing Pablo Sandoval. That makes a reported total of four teams...
View ArticleMorning Digest: 9 Stories You Should Know About Today
Oakland falling behind in push to add housing (SF Chronicle) Oakland’s housing boom is bringing more than 11,000 new apartments, condominiums and lofts to the city, but it’s not nearly enough to...
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Ferguson Protest Shuts Down Oakland BART Station
Transbay BART service shut down for about 2½ hours today due to a protest related to a grand jury’s decision earlier this week not to indict police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of...
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