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Last month, she sent a memo to Bass’ appointees on the Board of Fire Commissioners expressing serious concerns about the city’s decision to eliminate dozens of vacant non-firefighter positions at her agency.

Last year, faced with a serious budget crunch, Bass and the council eliminated dozens of civilian positions in the department, all of them already vacant.

He stops at a vacant, half-renovated home — one of the few whose owners he does not know personally.

In the Wall Street Journal, Alito brushed aside any conflict of interest, suggesting that if he had not taken the private flight, his seat “would have otherwise been vacant.”

A porter comes and goes to move the vacant wheelchair.