- Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here.
- Some opinion via [Jacobin Magazine]: Sharing economy companies like Uber and Airbnb aren’t helping local economies they’re just helping themselves.
- City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s Section 8 housing discrimination case clears key hurdle with Superior Court ruling. [Examiner]
- A pigeon got on BART, and some people freaked out. [CBS 5]
- None of the Bay Area’s most "hipster-friendly" zip codes for flipping homes are in SF (obviously). There are three, and they're in Berkeley and Oakland. [Forbes, CBS 5]
- SF State students might get to ride Muni for free, and ride BART at major discount, via a special pass that's been in the works for a number of years, and would not take effect until 2017. [Examiner]
- Starbucks is pledging to donate 100 percent of its unsold food across the US. [KRON 4]
-
Teatro ZinZanni’s ongoing plan to build a hotel and reconstruct its circus tent along the Embarcadero has been sent back to the drawing board by Planning. [Socketsite]
- In their sweeps of homeless encampments, the Department of Public Works says they bag and tag individuals' belongings and keep them in a storage facility for 90 days. Homeless who've had things taken claim otherwise. [Mission Local]
- Bauer Transportation’s ongoing labor dispute might remove the bus company as a permitted tech shuttle company on SF streets at the Board of Supervisors' behest. [Chron]
- A traveling minister who was bounced from Willie Mays Plaza in 2014 for carrying a "John 3:16" sign settles his lawsuit with the city. [Chron]
