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On Tuesday afternoon, the Board of Supervisors approved a $3.3 million settlement for a cyclist struck by a city vehicle at the intersection of Valencia and 20th streets in November 2019.The settlement is this year's third multimillion dollar settlement for a non-fatal vehicle collision involving a city employee.

"This city," said Kimora Lanique as a dusting of rain fell outside City Hall, "has failed us to the fullest."Lanique, a friend and colleague of Banko Brown, was addressing a circle of around 30 supporters and loved ones of the slain 24-year-old before public comment at the May 2 Board of Supervisors meeting.

Yes, it has been three years, and it is certainly something to celebrate



Photo: Sergio Ruiz
Walk San Francisco and fellow advocates will host a celebration of the popular, well-used, and with any luck very sunny car-free JFK Drive through Golden Gate Park on Friday afternoon, April 26, from 4:30 to 6:30 at Pompei Circle, near the Conservatory of Flowers.

In 2020, Robert Williams was arrested for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars of watches.Detroit police had matched grainy surveillance footage of the crime to Williams' driver's license photo using a facial recognition service.But Williams wasn't the robber.At the time of the robbery, he was driving home from work.

The SF Board of Supervisors overturned their own 2016 ban on doing business with states who've passed anti-LGBTQ legislation, restrictive abortion laws, and engaged in voter suppression, concluding the ban did more harm than good.If you followed the months-long $1.7 million Noe Valley toilet saga, you may recall that the way SF supervisors lowered the cost of the project was by taking a donated, pre-fab outdoor toilet from a manufacturer in Nevada.

WASHINGTON Federal prosecutors have charged a former F.B.I. agent with illegally entering the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and said he had called police officers Nazis as he encouraged a mob of Trump loyalists to kill them.The former agent, Jared L. Wise, was arrested on Monday and faces four misdemeanor counts, including disrupting the orderly conduct of government and trespassing, after agents received a tip in January 2022 that he had been inside the Capitol, according to a criminal complaint.

Los Angeles County leaders plan to reopen a shuttered juvenile hall and deploy reserve sheriff officers to work in the facilities as they scramble to fix a staffing crisis that has state regulators threatening to close down the county's two remaining juvenile halls.The steps are among more than a dozen changes to the Probation Department that Los Angeles County supervisors unanimously approved Tuesday as part of a plan to fix a juvenile justice system in crisis and stave off state intervention.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker's transportation secretary violated a long-standing policy by allowing high-ranking officials in his department to delegate certain job duties so they would avoid triggering a revolving-door prohibition that could limit their job prospects once they left the agency, according to a state inspector general report released Tuesday.

Keep watch over banks, but try not to alarm anyone.That is how bank regulators appeared to view their duties in the lead-up to last month's banking crisis, at the center of which were the failures of Silicon Valley Bank in California and Signature Bank in New York.For years, federal regulators overseeing Silicon Valley Bank pointed out its many flaws using language whose impact appeared heavily blunted by technical jargon.

(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Weeks after deciding to dump Dominion Voting Systems and become the largest government entity in the U.S. to hand-count its votes, Shasta County officials are now grappling with the complex logistics of actually carrying out that approach, accurately and legally, in a county of 200,000 people.

The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Wednesday tossed out a permit that had been granted to local internet business Monkeybrains to put up a fence on one side of a lot adjacent to their building at 22nd and Treat.But the bizarre limbo of this piece of land, which has been embraced by guerrilla gardeners, car owners in need of parking, and feral cats alike, has not been solved.

Some questions come up again and again in job interviews.At the top of the list: " Tell me about yourself," " Why do you want to work here?" and "What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?"The strengths-and-weaknesses question may seem like the easiest of the bunch for job seekers to answer, given the classic responses associated with each:
My strengths?

First Republic Bank was seized by regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase on Monday, the latest casualty of a banking crisis that has seen other troubled lenders collapse in March.Silicon Valley Bank, one of the most prominent lenders to technology start-ups and venture capital firms, was the first to implode on March 10.

Tucker Carlson at the FOX Nation Patriot Awards on Nov. 17, 2022 in Hollywood, Fla. Jason Koerner/Getty Images Allegations painting Fox News as an abusive workplace that excuses misogyny and anti-Semitism have been put on blast in the aftermath of star host Tucker Carlson's abrupt firing earlier this week.

The board overseeing Disney's special taxing district which was appointed by and is aligned with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis voted on Monday to sue the company days after the entertainment giant filed its own lawsuit against the board.Since Disney sued us yes, we didn't sue Disney, Disney sued us we have no choice now but to respond, said Martin Garcia, chairman of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board of supervisors.

(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Only two centuries ago, a shallow inland sea dominated California's Central Valley.In a ring of impenetrable reeds, called tules, was Tulare Lake - then the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River.At the end of the 19th century, newly arrived settlers began draining it to provide water for agriculture and growing cities and to defend against destructive floods.

The Board of Supervisors apparently approved a liquor license transfer for the big-box booze retailer Total Wine & More to move into the now-vacated Office Max at 14th and Harrison Streets, though the state ABC has not approved the license yet.It was last November, the week before Thanksgiving, when Hoodline broke the news that the Office Max at 14th and Harrison Streets had closed permanently.

(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Veteran Los Angeles politician Mark Ridley-Thomas' felony convictions bring new shock waves to a City Hall that had been settling into relative normalcy after months of upheaval.For 17 long months, Ridley-Thomas had been in a kind of limbo - suspended from the City Council but not permanently removed.

Managers often complain about hybrid employee procrastination resulting in missing deadlines and task delays, when compared to their in-office colleagues.Research by Microsoft, which surveyed 20,000 people and analyzed trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals, finds that 85% of leaders believe the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are being productive.

It's no surprise that working from home has been popular for many workers, but it hasn't been a win for every profession across the board.Glassdoor recently surveyed workers to determine how important remote work was to them as a benefit, and how employees across various levels of seniority and various occupations view their experiences working from home.