Ascend Body training studio closes, owner blames high rents and ‘thin margins’

Oct 9, 2019 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

A three-page notice posted to the front door at 2415 Mission St. and, signed by Ascend’s owner Shane Young, said the business had experienced “several significant financial hardships.”

Sixty-unit housing project on 14th Street to rise, as supes reject SF Mission activist appeal

Oct 9, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

A seven-story, 60-unit project will rise at 344 14th St., as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to reject a last-ditch environmental appeal filed by neighborhood activists opposed to the project, which contains eight affordable units.

SFPD officer who threatened to call immigration authorities on minority bystanders violated policy

Oct 8, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

A San Francisco Police officer, who in May 2017 threatened to call immigration authorities on a group of Asian and Latino men, saying “we’re going to ship everyone back to their own country,” violated a slew of department policies, according to a report by the Department of Police Accountability.

Fellow district attorney candidates turn ire on Suzy Loftus in SF Mission debate

Oct 8, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Suzy Loftus, Mayor Breed’s choice to lead DA office, faces hostile crowd — in audience and...

Suzy Loftus’ appointment as DA 24 hours before voting commenced was a crass political flex

Oct 7, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Mayor London Breed’s announcement that she would gift her preferred DA candidate, Suzy Loftus, the...

‘Hello, Officer’: The SFPD’s efforts to speak your language are both high-tech and low-tech

Oct 7, 2019 | Covering the Police, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

One police officer behind a foldout table at a senior center may not look like the most advanced breakthrough in community policing, but the Ingleside District — which partially encompasses Visitacion Valley and Sunnydale, neighborhoods at the southeastern fringe of the city — is one of the few stations experimenting with placing officers in communities less comfortable with visiting a police station.

Neighborhood Notes: ‘Dolores’ film screening, MAPP heads to Jardin Secreto and a bake sale for Planned Parenthood

Oct 4, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Though there are a slew of events all over the city for Hispanic Heritage month, the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library will be hosting a free viewing of Dolores on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 3 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium. Dolores, a 2017 film by director and San Francisco native Peter Bratt, tells the story of activist Dolores Huerta. It originally aired on PBS.

Otis the pug is stolen. Otis the pug is found. A homeless man refuses the $15K reward. And then things get weird.

Oct 3, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Trouble

Video footage points to inside job in theft of Otis the pug, a dog with 25K Instagram followers...

Indoor cannabis cultivation business green-lit for Duboce warehouse

Oct 3, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

A new indoor cannabis cultivation business is slated to come to the Mission, opening across the street from Zeitgeist and SoMa West Skatepark at the site of a former aquarium shop. The project, located at 49 Duboce Ave., features 3,600 square feet for indoor growing across two floors of an industrial warehouse, and was approved at Thursday’s Planning Commission hearing.

Three cannabis businesses proposals in the Mission set for hearings in October

Oct 2, 2019 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Two more aspiring Mission cannabis outfits are heading before the Planning Commission this week, with a third slated to appear later this month.

Discord in SF City Hall over ambitious mental health system overhaul

Oct 1, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Like the boulders of Clinton Park being rolled off the sidewalk, put back on, taken off again — and now perhaps replaced with bigger boulders — the political tug-of-war between a faction of the Board of Supervisors and Mayor London Breed over reforming San Francisco’s mental health system draws on, as people continue to suffer on the street.