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(AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File) A recent viral video shows a man in San Francisco riding a bike through Walgreens, filling a garbage with merchandise, and sailing out of the store with a security guard and store employee standing helplessly by. Another viral video shows a thief jumping over a counter and then leaving on a scooter while a TV crew does a story on shoplifting. Such scenes have become so common in San Francisco that retail chains are applying new rules to their operations in the city....

The measure was almost tabled for a future meeting and ultimately passed with a 3-2 vote. Augusta Turner, chair of the Ouachita NAACPs economic development committee, argued that the 16.7% of the total required to go to minority or women-owned companies called Disadvantaged Business Enterprises was not enough because the city is 60% Black. Engineer Kim Golden explained how the projects get broken down by component to figure out the fraction that can reasonably go to DBEs. Golden was concerned ...