"States should start by prioritizing the resilience of buildings and public works. Tax breaks and grants for hardening homes against floods, fire and wind are a short-term expense with long-term benefits." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Amid Climate Crisis, Insurers’ Increased Use of AI Raises Concern For LA Policyholders States and consumers accuse insurance giants of using technology to slow payouts and drop homeowners.

California’s private insurers are abandoning homeowners and dodging payouts while padding executives’ pockets. A public disaster insurance system would cover everyone automatically, spread risk fairly, and invest in disaster prevention.

"...by removing less-extreme wildfires, we ensure that the fires that occur are the most extreme." bsky.app/profile/nrfi...

This is a hilarious campaign stunt. (Is it effective? Who knows!) www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Dodgers owner Mark Walter promised that the team's charity and his own family foundation would give contribute up to $100 million to L.A. wildfire relief. One year later, they've given just $7.8 million: www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

Teachers’ strike set for Monday as SFUSD negotiations stall, leaving parents in limbo sfstandard.com/2026/02/08/s...

Everyone knows that the Super Bowl TV coverage will likely be uh, geographically-challenged. You know, making it seem like the Golden Gate Bridge is next door to Levi's Stadium. (It isn't.) I'm still mad about the 2000 rom-com film BOYS AND GIRLS, which royally screws up Bay Area locations.

This was standard misinformation in every newsroom I’ve worked in and I have no idea why www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Greg Brown, founding guitarist of Cake and writer of ‘The Distance,’ dies www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

"Que bailen toa las gata', nos fuimo al garete / Tas escuchando el que más le mete"

Next year’s Super Bowl lands on Feb. 14, marking the first-ever Valentine’s Day-Super Bowl eclipse. It’s already creating anxiety. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re... via @wsj.com

Miles of pristine LA beach could become America's next national park www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...

My pals at @courtwatch.bsky.social remind us of the intersection between sports stars and fed crime. "Tonight, Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte will play in his first Super Bowl. Just a few years ago, the odds of that happening would have seemed unlikely." www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Dave Chappelle’s Super Bowl week set in San Francisco wasn’t escapism — it was a warning www.sfchronicle.com/super-bowl-l...

Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s $80M luxury jet has landed (twice!) for the Super Bowl (by @cfarivar.bsky.social) sfstandard.com/2026/02/08/s...

SF hosts a March for Billionaires. Many laugh at them sfstandard.com/2026/02/07/m...

OK so now the former CEO of Tumblr is running the Washington Post. Tumblr. A company whose history is a textbook case study in corporate value destruction.

Ok Internet, please caption this image.

Cardi B surprises Mission crowd at private pre-Super Bowl bash (by @cfarivar.bsky.social) sfstandard.com/2026/02/07/c...

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Is Ready to Make Super Bowl History www.kqed.org/arts/1398631...

Parts of fence come down as confrontation over ‘Lucky Luke’ beach property comes to head www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Super Bowl bingo: Spot every cringe ‘San Fran’ stereotype televised during the big game sfstandard.com/2026/02/07/s...

Whoa, San Francisco isn’t a hellhole after all? (by @emilydreyfuss.bsky.social) sfstandard.com/2026/02/06/s...

Fluted and looted: A prized instrument goes missing in the Tenderloin sfstandard.com/2026/02/05/s...

"Disney's 1994 feature film that Leavitt referenced is set on the savannah, not in the jungle, and it does not include great apes." Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it www.sfchronicle.com/news/article...

Horn Barbecue evicted from Bay Area location www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

We need more kids at press conferences. bsky.app/profile/lizr...

Welcome to San Francisco. Here’s what those billboards mean sfstandard.com/2026/02/06/c...

"The NFL certainly can restrict who claims to endorse the Super Bowl...but the league instead likes to pretend that nobody can factually state that there is a thing called a Super Bowl and that it occurs at this time of year." - @techdirt.com (2021) www.techdirt.com/2019/02/01/g...

"Cotillon, a Bay Area native who lives in Hayward, is the brains behind the Buck Fifty — a white plastic tray for both the hot dog and soda that fits neatly on the top rack of a Costco shopping cart." www.sfgate.com/food/article...

Bike News! WeHo bike lane green color disappoints Councilmember Erickson. New protected bike lanes coming to Glendale, Santa Monica, and Culver City. Another LADOT survey. la.streetsblog.org/2026/02/03/b...

Great-granddaughter of Piedmont’s first Black residents, who were forced out by a ‘terror campaign,’ sues city oaklandside.org/2026/02/04/p...

OFD PIO Michael Hunt is a great dude, no doubt. In my 20+ years of experience, I cannot recall another instance where a local media outlet wrote about how awesome a PIO is. "One reason the newsroom has appreciated Hunt’s approach is his willingness to pick up the phone." bsky.app/profile/cfar...

Oakland’s fire department has a secret weapon — a candid spokesperson oaklandside.org/2026/02/03/o...

My heart is heavy as one of the stalwarts of American journalism, the @washingtonpost.com, has chosen to lay off so many of my friends and colleagues, whose work I admire so much. The words of Marty Baron -- a former editor at the Post -- carry a lot of weight. www.linkedin.com/posts/mabaro...

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Silicon Valley network sfstandard.com/2026/02/03/j...

🏡 🦏 My Rhino colleague Michael Chien has new insight as to why real estate agents need to tackle the thorny problem of property insurance sooner rather than later. withrhino.substack.com/p/insurance-...

New bill aims to make California FAIR Plan cover all insurance risks, not just fire www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

"A spokesperson for DHS declined to answer questions about the two agents and referred ProPublica to the FBI. The FBI declined to comment. ProPublica made several attempts to call Ochoa and Gutierrez but neither answered." bsky.app/profile/cfar...

@propublica.org names the two federal officers that shot Alex Pretti as CBP agents Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez More: www.propublica.org/article/alex...

China executes 11 members of Myanmar scam mafia www.bbc.com/news/article...

AI-altered photos and videos of Minneapolis shootings blur reality www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

The @sfstandard.com has new details about the Oakland ride in honor of Alex Pretti, and great photos by Jungho Kim. sfstandard.com/2026/01/30/a...

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Feds make ‘unauthorized' use of license plate reader in Mountain View www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/f...

Government risk maps are too coarse for the way wildfire works now. But new tools powered by AI are giving us a clearer picture. @umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4769...

How a trans woman's removal from a restroom tore the world of competitive pinball apart www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

For 24 hours, a young Muslim woman was locked inside a bathroom with 3 men at the Whipple Federal Building, she said. Meals consisted of one sandwich a day. There was one working toilet. When the men pulled down their pants to use it, the woman hid her face. www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

Unpaid rent and at least one closure: What’s going on with Horn Barbecue? www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...