Newsom Signs Major Rollback of CEQA Reviews, With a Big Carve-Out for Big Tech Gavin Newsom claims it’s the “most consequential housing reform in modern history” that he just exempted most urban housing projects from environmental review, as the new state budget has some additions that hope to weaken the notorious CEQA.
https://sfist.com/2025/07/01/n....ewsom-signs-major-ro

New App Lets Users Crowdsource ICE Agent Sightings, Trump Administration Goes Apoplectic A new iPhone app purports to be “Waze but for ICE sightings” and lets users share the location of ICE operations they see, but now the Trump administration is throwing massive tantrums and claiming they’ll sue CNN for reporting that the app exists.
https://sfist.com/2025/07/01/n....ew-iphone-app-lets-u

Three Bay Area Men In Michael Myers Masks Allegedly Went to Florida to Steal Apple Products, Now Face Federal Charges Three East Bay men are in custody in Florida after an alleged robbery attempt Friday at a seller of Apple products that ended with a chase and a police shooting.
https://sfist.com/2025/07/01/t....hree-bay-area-men-al

Oakland Attorney Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Contraband Porn Into Solano County Jail A well-known Oakland attorney has been arrested on charges that he tried to sneak contraband to a prisoner in Solano County Jail, and further reporting on the matter says that the contraband he tried to sneak was a stack of pornographic magazines.
https://sfist.com/2025/07/01/o....akland-attorney-arre

Celebrity Chef Charlie Palmer Readies to Open His Latest Hotel and Restaurant Project In Healdsburg OG celebrity chef Charlie Palmer, who opened Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg in 2003 and has had a big hand in putting the tony wine country town on the proverbial map, is still making moves in his hometown.
https://sfist.com/2025/07/01/c....elebrity-chef-charli