Anger on Telegraph Hill over a new Coit Tower proposal, Deborah J. Saunders says the city’s political establishment is piling on Ross Mirkarimi, plus a Bay Area mortgage re-fi boom, more.
- Low interest rates and rising home prices have sparked a surge of mortgage re-financings across the Bay Area. Mercury News
- The Chronicle’s Deborah J. Saunders says suspended sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is the victim of a prosecutorial pile-on.
- Neighbors around Telegraph Hill are upset that the city is considering opening up Coit Tower to private events once a month. Chronicle
- Former Silicon Valley hedge fund manager Albert Ke-Jung Hu was convicted by a San Jose jury of bilking investors out of millions of dollars. Mercury News
- Alameda County chief probation officer David Muhammad, on paid leave since being accused of sexually assaulting a female deputy earlier this year, has agreed to resign this summer. Chronicle
