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The mayor wants to cut support for the Free City College program. It's yet another example of the city's chief executive diverting money that was approved by the voters to other priorities. It's also a violation of a ten-year Memorandum of Understanding that San Francisco signed with City College in 2017. Free City College has its roots in a 2016 ballot measure, spearheaded by then-Sup. Jane Kim, that slightly raised the transfer tax on properties selling for more than $5 million.

Several Muni bus passengers were injured Wednesday afternoon around 4:30 after the bus collided with a pickup truck on Mission Street near 21st Street, outside the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theater. An SFMTA transit supervisor on the scene declined to give his name but said that the truck made an "illegal maneuver" - seemingly a U-turn - and that five to six passengers inside the bus were injured. No other people were injured.

In a sign of weak demand for restaurants overall, the once highly valued "full" liquor licenses in San Francisco, which could only be obtained on the secondary market due to a longstanding legal exception, are now worth about a third of what they were before the pandemic. You might not think that the market price for a liquor license would fluctuate, or that the price could tank in a matter of just a few years. It's not like people have stopped drinking Gen Z maybe has and it's not like the local restaurant scene is in the doldrums like it was in 2021.

Venture capitalist Michael Moritz's philanthropic foundation, Crankstart, is reportedly contributing $10 million, and the Downtown Development Corp (DDC) has pledged to acquire additional donors to match the other $10 million. Formed last summer, the DDC is a business-backed civic group aligned with the mayor's downtown revitalization agenda that's supported by major tech, real estate, and philanthropic donors including OpenAI, Salesforce, and Emerson Collective.

Castro Merchants president Nate Bourg lamented the “deliberate hate crime targeting a gay-owned business and the values of safety, pride, and inclusion that define the Castro.” “Our community has fought too hard for visibility, d

In April, Harper, a retired San Francisco Muni driver, received an eviction notice stating she owed $93,000. A second letter later reduced that amount. "Something is not right. How can you go from $93K to $10K. At first, I'm concerned they have bad bookkeepers," Harper said. Now, the uncertainty has left her fearing to end up homeless "on the sidewalk," Harper said.

A committee is being established to lead the process of renaming Cesar Chavez Street, 30 years after the name supplanted Army Street, and following the revelation that the workers' rights icon sexually assaulted women and girls. It took the state of California just a matter of days to rename Cesar Chavez Day, the state holiday that falls on March 31, as Farmworkers Day, following the bombshell March revelations from multiple women that Chavez had assaulted them in the 1970s.

“We know that smoking is linked to heart disease, respiratory disease, all types of illnesses like asthma,” said Dr. John Maa, a member of the San Francisco Marin Medical Society. His organization supports Melgar's proposal and says tobacco is the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States.

Rogers says she was leaning against the wall near the bathroom, with the back of her foot propped back against it. Her knee was jutted out at about a 45-degree angle, she says. That was when she alleges that Carta's chief revenue officer, Jeff Perry, walked by, slapped his hand on her leg, squeezed it, then kept walking. "It wasn't something normal-definitely not professional," Rogers says in an interview with Fortune, recounting the claims she made in a lawsuit against her former employer, Carta, and Perry in August.

A rollover crash on Potrero Hill that may have only involved one vehicle led to an emergency alert, a fallen tree in the roadway, and disrupted Muni service Monday near Zuckerberg SF General Hospital. The crash occurred around 11:20 am at Potrero Avenue and 23rd Street, as the Chronicle reports, and involved a vehicle rolling over and a street tree being knocked down into the roadway. The circumstances and number of vehicles involved has not been reported.

In the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the LGBTQ+ charity behind San Francisco's annual Hunky Jesus competition, decades of activism and raucous performances, members of the order dress in drag as nuns, taking names like "Sister Flatulina Grande" and donning robes and white face paint. Among a flock of nuns, Gordon, who joined in 1987, was designated the lone pope.

Lad, 29, who lives in the Lower Haight, will represent San Francisco on Season 4 of "The Great American Baking Show," which premieres May 11 on the Roku Channel. Like its British counterpart, the popular show pits highly skilled home bakers against each other as they race against the clock to craft extravagant cakes in a tent setting. The cakes are then judged by celebrity chef Paul Hollywood, as well as restaurateur, chef and writer Prue Leith; each week, a different baker is sent home.

Located in SF's Castro District, the GLBT Historical Society Museum is the first full-scale, stand-alone museum of its kind in the United States. The museum celebrates 100 years of the city's vast queer past through dynamic exhibitions and programming.