San Francisco reports $125 million budget surplus this fiscal year - but deficits still loom
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Bon Voyage restaurant and bar has been closed since March. The mayor and some supervisors said they support spending some of the city’s budget surplus on helping small businesses.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2020
San Francisco announced a $125 million surplus in the city’s budget halfway through the current fiscal year on Friday, reversing the city’s short-term financial fortunes from a $116 million deficit three months ago.
The gap was filled by higher-than-expected property tax revenue, increased federal reimbursements and lower expenses. Friday’s update was a rare bit of good news for the city’s $13.1 billion budget, which has been ravaged by the pandemic over the past year. But the city still likely faces a more than $500 million deficit over the next two years, which will need to be bridged somehow.
The Zodiac Killer s most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved
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The Zodiac Killer s infamously uncrackable 340 cipher has been solved.The Chronicle
After millions of attempts, thousands of bad solutions and 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s most infamous cipher has been solved.
If your skepticism is tingling, you are not alone. In the decades since the Bay Area’s most infamous serial killer fired off his mysterious letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, countless people have come forward saying they’ve cracked it. But the solutions were all a little off and almost always required some illogical gymnastics, like ignoring whole chunks or omitting certain inconvenient characters. This solution is different. It references an event that just occurred and has several key phrases that Zodiac used in other letters. It reads:
The Zodiac Killer s most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved
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The Zodiac Killer s infamously uncrackable 340 cipher has been solved.The Chronicle
After millions of attempts, thousands of bad solutions and 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s most infamous cipher has been solved.
If your skepticism is tingling, you are not alone. In the decades since the Bay Area’s most infamous serial killer fired off his mysterious letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, countless people have come forward saying they’ve cracked it. But the solutions were all a little off and almost always required some illogical gymnastics, like ignoring whole chunks or omitting certain inconvenient characters. This solution is different. It references an event that just occurred and has several key phrases that Zodiac used in other letters. It reads: