In San Francisco, its been especially tragic, increasing 59 over three years. With this data, we can better track these crimes, understand whos being impacted, and develop better strategies to address them. Secondly, im proud to be working closely with budget chair fewer on budget reform legislation to improve transparency and engagement at every especially step of the budget process. In my very first board meetings, i held my very first town hall on the eraf budget. I would add our budget process is also a statement of our values. Democracy must be one of our core values. Thats why ive dedicated my first year in office to strengthening our democracy, fighting political corruption to ensure free and Fair Elections and now budget reform. Democracy does not begin or end at the ballot box but should be part of the processes with which we govern ourselves in every facet of our lives. I look forward to working together to expanding our Democratic Values through reform. Thank you. Clerk than
Supervisor mar one, require sfpd to report. And two, require sfpd to disclose the aggregated crime data for victims of adult, aggravated assault, sexual assault, burglary, theft, Motor Vehicle theft, robbery, battery, vandalism, domestic violence, and murder. The legislation does not require sfpd to collect any new information from victims, but only requires sfpd to report available data that has already been collected. I first requested this data for a board of supervisors hearing i convened in march in response to a series of Home Invasion robberies targeting families in the chinese district. After more crimes throughout the day, i was joined by president yee and supervisor safai in a recommendation. The data we received is alarming. 50 of the victims are black. All communities citywide saw an annual increase in burglary victims since 2015 and robbery victims increased annually since 2016. Theft victims across the see more than doubled from 2016 to 2018. With 28,444 theft victims in
Dow. And also happening right now, point, click, strike, the same day amazon celebrates its most high profile shopping event of the year, prime day, thousands of amazon workers in the United States and europe hitting the picket lines, protesting overworking conditions, wages, and much more. This is bulls bears, im christina partsinevelos and joining me on the panel today, jonathan hoenig, liz peek, Gary Kaltbaum but first lets go to susan li in minnesota where you have the amazon fulfillment workers striking actually right behind you. Susan what are they telling you . Well in what they said is the first of its kind across north america we do have workers at the Amazon Fulfillment Center just outside minneapolis, minnesota walking off the jobs on one of the most important days for amazon and what they are protesting not wages because we do have amazon listing the minimum wage up to 15 an hour, in fact amazon says the average wage is around 16 to 20 and that includes benefits but they ar
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Welcome, everybody. My name is lindsey jancay. Im the director. Collections, programing and marketing here at bethlehem museums and sites. And i am thrilled today to. Be welcoming geoff gehman. Were talking today about shoeless joe, the babe and the highly unlikely 1918 Bethlehem Steel League. This is all in support are offered with support from johns adult programing fund. Historic bethlehem museums and sites which are Camera Museum as part of interprets three centuries of history here in bethlehem, starting with the early moravian settlement and into today and its stories like this that help bring that history to life. So thank you, jeff, for coming. The fun is going to continue beyond tonight and beyond jeffs talk. We do have the exhibition opened down from marbles to make believe. Lets play. And i really encourage you to stop by the bethlehem based ballroom, which has some documents and pieces that are related. What youre going to be talking about tonight. So were really thrilled.