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Jim’s owners retiring, leaving future of Mission diner unclear

The mom-and-pop owners of Jim’s Restaurant on Mission Street, a community staple for over three decades, will have their last day of work this Saturday, according to the restaurant.Jim’s Restaurant announced that its owners will be retiring after Saturday. It’s unclear, however, whether Jim’s will continue operating under new management. What is clear is it will no longer be the same without Ms. and Mr. Kim. The current owners, Kim Ok Un and Kim Jung Nyun, declined to comment about their retirement or whether Jim’s would continue operating.  An Instagram commenter says, “So so sooo happy for you guys!! So well deserved but Jim’s will never be the same without you”.Another says, “Legendary spot just up the street from KPOO. Thanks y’all for the decades of service to the community.”On Friday around noon, the restaurant at 2420 Mission St. between 20th and […]

Karl The Fog December 20, 2024

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S.F. police shoot, kill Dior guard turned alleged hit-and-run driver

San Francisco police shot and killed a purportedly armed man they say they tracked down — after he allegedly hit pedestrians and a cyclist with a car on Thursday evening. Assistant Chief David Lazar, who gave a press conference this morning, said the man was believed to be a security guard at Dior, and said he discovered a firearm “on the ground” at the scene that he believed belonged to the guard. He did not give any details about whether the man was armed at the time police shot him. Lazar also could not confirm how many police officers fired their weapons at the man. The driver was allegedly driving on the sidewalk around 6:30 p.m. at Kearny and Post streets and hit two pedestrians, an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old, Lazar said, in pursuit of a man on an electric bicycle. After hitting […]

Karl The Fog December 20, 2024

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Street sheet – Mission Local

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Karl The Fog December 19, 2024

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Supervisor Melgar won, now the trick will be to manage her constituents’ competing interests

District 7 incumbent Myrna Melgar faced a particularly bruising re-election campaign. She squared off against significant numbers of her own constituents by supporting hot-button issues like Proposition K to close the Great Highway to cars, and upzoning parts of her district that have been previously limited to single-family housing. “If I lose this election on this issue, then that’s the right thing to do,” Melgar said in June, after a particularly contentious meeting about zoning changes coming to her district, and the rest of the city. But she didn’t lose the election. No matter the ideological differences, most of her constituents agree: She’s good at the actual work of being a district supervisor. “When I call — somebody does get back to me,” said Peggy da Silva, a West Portal resident who has reached out to Melgar’s office over concerns like city […]

Karl The Fog December 19, 2024

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SFPD arrests woman for allegedly defacing murals across city

Police officers from Ingleside Station arrested the alleged serial Mission Street mural vandal Tuesday night. She had been filmed by bystanders on Sunday defacing a mural on Mission Street by deceased muralist Mario Cid Gonzalez. Witnesses said they observed a woman matching the suspect’s description defacing that mural months prior as well.  Tuesday’s arrest of 33-year-old Ana Da Costa Pereira came after the defacing of more murals that night, including one on the side of the Excelsior District’s Central Drug Store at Mission and Santa Rosa streets. Da Costa Pereira was booked into the San Francisco County jail Tuesday night at 9:22 p.m. for vandalism of more than $400 and two counts of possession of graffiti instruments.Police said that Da Costa Pereira is responsible for multiple incidents of mural vandalism up and down Mission Street.  An email sent by police to […]

Karl The Fog December 18, 2024

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Fielder goes for experience and new faces for her legislative team

District 9 Supervisor-Elect Jackie Fielder’s four picks for legislative aides includes two members from current supervisor Hillary Ronen’s team, and two from the campaign team that catapulted her to a 19-point victory over her closest contestant, Trevor Chandler.Fielder’s team will be composed of Jennifer Ferrigno, Ana Herrera – both current aides to Ronen – and political outsiders Sasha Gaona and Feng Han.“I’m so excited to work with these four amazing folks who are stars in their own right and are ready to fight for our communities,” said Fielder.  Fielder praised the work both Han and Gaona did in the campaign that delivered her a victory with “stunning margins.”  The supervisor-elect also celebrated the experience both Herrera and Ferrigno bring to her team, “Ana and Jennifer have been serving in Supervisor Ronen’s office on some of the district’s most pressing issues, and […]

Karl The Fog December 18, 2024

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Board rejects Mayor Breed’s final picks for S.F. commissions

The Board of Supervisors in a 5-4 vote today rejected Mayor London Breed’s nominations to two city commissions. The vote seemed to say: Leave it to the next mayor. “I think it is the obligation of this board to put our foot down and reject these, and let a new mayor nominate whoever he chooses,” said Board president Aaron Peskin. “I would rather give the new mayor a clean slate.” Breed had nominated former California Public Utilities Commission administrative law judge Joanna Gubman to the Board of Appeals, transit planner and Apple transportation product manager Sara Barz to the Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors, and attorney James Byrne to fill the Police Commission seat vacated by Debra Walker — who Breed recently appointed to the Arts Commission.The Board of Supervisors Rules Committee rejected all three nominations last week. Peskin said today […]

Karl The Fog December 17, 2024

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S.F. wins $1M settlement against gig firm WorkWhile

The San Francisco city attorney’s office announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with gig staffing company WorkWhile, the second worker classification victory this year from the city’s newly-formed Worker Protection Team. WorkWhile, a San Francisco-based gig company that connects workers with temp work, will pay $1 million to thousands of workers the city claimed were being denied rights and benefits. It will also permanently reclassify all its current and future workers, except delivery workers, as employees rather than independent contractors. The judgment came on Dec. 10 — about 10 months after San Francisco secured the country’s first injunction to require a gig company, in that case Qwick, to permanently reclassify its workers.WorkWhile has grown rapidly since its launch in 2020, with half a million workers now operating across 27 states, according to the city attorney’s office. Its workers are […]

Karl The Fog December 17, 2024

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Jury reaches verdict — to be revealed Tuesday

The jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of Nima Momeni, the man accused of stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death in April 2023.That verdict will be read in a San Francisco courtroom on Tuesday morning. Jurors have been deliberating on whether to convict Momeni of murder — or a lesser charge — for nearly seven days. They came to their decision today behind closed doors this afternoon, and jurors left around 4 p.m. after attorneys on both sides were called to receive the news. The trial began on Oct. 14. Jurors have the option to unanimously convict or acquit Momeni of first-degree murder. If they chose to acquit him, they were instructed by the judge to consider second-degree murder, then voluntary manslaughter, then involuntary manslaughter. If he is convicted of either murder charge, he could face up […]

Karl The Fog December 16, 2024

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