Pride Roundup

In a show of inclusion of the LGBTQ community, officers of the San Francisco Police Department became the first nationwide to wear rainbow patches celebrating Pride month. San Francisco Examiner

The City has erected a dozen signs demarcating the Compton's Transgender Cultural District neighborhood in the Tenderloin and painted streetlights with the distrinctive blue-pink-white pattern of the Trans Pride flag. San Francisco Examiner

The designer of two Muni streetcar history maps has released his own punny Pride-themed transit merch. San Francisco Examiner

"My family was destroyed by these two policemen.”

San Francisco's police oversight agency had recommended suspending two police officers for “neglect of duty” when they shot and killed a man holding a large kitchen knife in the Mission District three years ago. Recently released case files show investigators with the Department of Police Accountability found that officer Michael Mellone “failed to follow almost every directive before deploying and while firing" a beanbag round at Luís Góngora Pat, who was sitting down and believed to be experiencing a mental health crisis.

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Food and drinks prepared by robots abound in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Reporter Vivian Ho sampled several items produced by these culinary automatons — from a serviceable iced mocha to fresh baked bread — and reflected on the agony and the novelty of getting lunch from a machine which human attendants refuse to personify. The Guardian

"It's a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town, it's dirty and nasty and wonderful."

Two New York chefs declared Bourdain’s June 25 birthday "Anthony Bourdain Day" in honor of their friend and colleague who died last year. The late cook and food writer held up high The City’s drinking establishments and culinary institutions. SFGate compiled a thorough rundown of his recommendations. SFGate

Transportation Roundup

By Monday, Muni had fixed its faulty doors and car connectors on the recently purchased Siemens trains, according to San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director of Transit Julie Kirschbaum. SFMTA had locked the back doors of its new trains when their faulty door sensors became responsible for dragging a woman to the tracks at Embarcadero Station in late April. The agency had also stopped operating its two-car trains following the revelation that their couplers — which hook trains together — had a design flaw causing them to break. San Francisco Examiner

A claim by the Alameda County Civil Grand Jury that 15% of Bay Area Rapid Transit riders cheat their fares is three times too high, BART General Manager Grace Crunican wrote in a letter to the head of the jury. San Francisco Chronicle

Robberies have soared 128% and aggravated assaults have risen by 83% on BART since 2014, according to the foreperson of the grand jury report. San Francisco Chronicle

Juul is working to get an initiative on the ballot in November ensuring that its products can be sold in San Francisco. The tactics behind the ballot initiative effort mirror those taken by big tobacco companies, according to tobacco control advocates and experts, who also say that the initiative is intended to prevent further regulation of e-cigarettes by elected officials. San Francisco Chronicle

“The store will not be able to break even if this most recent proposed ban passes. There is nothing else at this point I can bring in to make up for the loss of sales.” For the nearly 800 small business owners who sell e-cigarettes, the new citywide ban against vaping sales prompts fear of closure. Mission Local

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) has pushed for an investigation into allegations that President Donald Trump has committed sexual assault. Her colleagues are less eager to proceed. It is also unclear which committee would have jurisdiction in such an investigation.

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Pacific Gas & Electric may pursue a $30 billion plan to accelerate its exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection by settling damages resulting from Northern California wildfires over the last two years and reconstituting the company. The proposal includes $16 billion to $18.4 billion to pay claims from wildfire victims, insurance companies and others. Proposing the plan is a company bondholders committee that has urged Judge Dennis Montali to substitute it for one required from PG&E by the end of September.

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To stand out in the bidding for Amazon's second headquarters — and the promise of 45,000 new jobs — San Francisco offered to devote a team of full-time, taxpayer-funded workers to directly serve retailing giant Amazon’s wishes in matters like processing zoning permits and fast-tracking. New Statesman

Amazon filed a licensing request with the Board of Supervisors to sell beer, wine and liquor in The City so that it can start delivering alcohol from its Prime Now warehouse. The filing indicates that the tech behemoth also intends to open a 200-square-foot storefront to sell alcohol directly. Mercury News