Good afternoon and Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s going to be a busy weekend. You’ll want to get up early (6 a.m.) Saturday to catch the Coronation, then have a kip before the Kentucky Derby. Luckily MissionLocal keeps you apprised of events closer to home.

A different account of the killing of Banko Brown emerged yesterday when a self-described eyewitness said that the Walgreens security guard had already ejected Brown from the store and gone back inside โ€” before changing his mind, walking back outside, and shooting the Black trans man. Protests and demand for the release of the video continue.

Remember that comment about “the best-laid plans?” With few on-street parking spots allocated by design, affordable housing residents along 16th Street are absorbing thousands of dollars in fines and losing hours to searching for a place to put their cars. ย 

Disgruntled drivers rallied outside Uber headquarters in San Francisco, where software engineers write the algorithms that determine their pay. They called for better pay and changes to the state law.ย 

And that’s all for this week. Cheers, and see you on Monday!

Sandy

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I provide editing support for Mission Local from New York, about 2500 miles away from SFO. (I just looked it up.) This allows me to retain my journalistic objectivity and fussy adherence to East Coast standards of punctuation. I got involved with Mission Local a few years ago through Lydia, whom I met in the early 1980s at The New York Times, where I was a business reporter. Since then I've been in and out of journalism and nonprofits, and have also tried my hand at fiction. A couple of years ago I contributed Mission Local's first fiction series, a comic novel called Love in the Middle Ages.