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11 Jun 2024

San Francisco Has Only Approved 16 New Housing Permits In 2024

Back in 2022, it came to my attention that San Francisco had been ordered by the State of California to build roughly 80,000 new housing units by 2031 in order to make rents more affordable, home ownership more attainable and homelessness less prevalent in the City by the Bay. So,

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
11 Apr 2024

A Police Officer Taught me How to Steal a Car

The craziest fuckin’ thing happened to me on Monday and it had nothing to do with the eclipse. A police officer showed me how to steal a car. I’m dead serious. Right around 10:30 a.m. in the morning as folks were readying themselves for the eclipse, I was sitting inside

Katy Atchison 0
08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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02 Apr 2024

Oakland International Airport Might Change Its Name…

While San Francisco continues to get beaten to death in the mainstream press, its neighbor across the Bay is considering changing the name of its airport to better represent their proximity to what some in the American media zeitgeist refer to as Hell on earth. Because no matter how bad

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
19 Mar 2024

Gardeners Find Duffle Bag Filled With Money In The Inner Sunset

I have so many fucking questions about this story. The first question is: Why not me???? In a series of events  reminiscent of a heist movie, an unexpected discovery unfolded in a tranquil San Francisco neighborhood.. Volunteers tending to  gardens of the Inner Sunset stumbled upon a black bag concealed

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
17 Oct 2023

SF and Oakland Are About To Get Cameras That Automatically Ticket You For Speeding

This may come as a shock to absolutely no one, but San Francisco is an exorbitantly expensive place to live. It’s a place where you can get your car stolen and somehow still have to worry about the sadistic MTA giving your stolen car a parking ticket. It’s a silly

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
12 Sep 2023

Sinkhole Pops Up On Fillmore Street In Pacific Heights & Other Bay Area News

The Bay Area is a place with a lot going on and it’s easy to be overwhelmed by all the articles and talking heads. So I’ve done a quick summary of some of the most important shit happening in the Bay Area right now. Sinkhole Pops Up On Fillmore Street

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
16 May 2023

Brooke Jenkins Is Allowing Banko Brown’s Murder To Go Unpunished

There’s no such thing as a perfect person, and this is doubly true for politicians. There are always going to be times where a political figure makes a decision you disagree with or find to be immoral. But that doesn’t necessarily make a politician corrupt. It’s possible for someone to

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
18 Apr 2023

Will Pop-Up Shops Bring Downtown San Francisco Back To Life?

Written By M.T. Agha A new initiative to bring business back to downtown San Francisco is underway in hopes to once again attract patrons to the currently empty stores lining SF’s streets. The program “Vacant to Vibrant,” launched last Monday, will pay both landlords and entrepreneurs with pop-up shops and

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