lydia is one of those who did. >> right.he's a prime example of exactly some of the types of things we want to accomplish with the conference. as you mention, she had a chance to network and meet firsthand leaders of the community that are mentors for the day and with her follow-up and her ambitio.m she used the networking at her disposal to be successful in her own life. >> there are things you want to get across about the conference or portrait of success program itself. >> some of those great things we talk about the sponsorships. our title sponsor have been faithful year after year. they attend our event. they take the time to be with us and spend the day with us and come to the conference in the morning and get to interface with some of the students and i say that because we couldn't do this without funding. we get our sponsors. we have many, many wonderful companies and corporations and nonprofits that buy tables at our event that cover the expenses of our students. in these challenging times financially we're faced wi

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. >> reporter: not being able to say no is what bothers lydia kindheart, who is opening a restaurantn fairfax next week and who has a smart meter installed outside her building. >> i like to have a choice in what i participate in. and i'll all about health and organic and i'm concerned about emfs that we are being bombarded. >> reporter: pg&e says smart meter signals are weaker than mike waves, wi-fi router and cell phones. pg&e adds it doesn't make sense to just have some houses with smart meters and some without. some counties with some counties without, because the whole poin of the system is to get a system-wide analysis of the energy usage. simon perez cbs 5. >>> in an hour the oakland city council is going to vote on an historic marijuana measure to create four licensed marijuana factories that could grow, package and process cannabis for medical use. the businesses would have to pay over $200,000 each in permit fees. the gross sales would be taxed up to 8%. opponents say it would drive the smaller shots out of business. >>> some other headlines around the bay area for you. san

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. >> reporter: lydia kindheart is opening a restaurant next week and she says pg&e's smartmeters are a negative charge to the fairfax vibe. >> number one, i would like have a choice in what i participate in and i'm all about health and organic and being closer to the earth. and i'm really concerned about emfs that we are being bombarded. >> reporter: the electromagnetic fields and radio frequencies that come out of wireless electricity monitors have lots of people worried. >> smartmeters no more. >> reporter: these protesters are asking pg&e to stop installing the smartmeters. and they are backed up by county governments in san francisco, santa cruz, and now marin. on a scale of one to 10, do you think they will stop? >> i think a 7. >> reporter: but the counties can ask all they want. they have no authority to stop the meters. pg&e is authorized by the state to install and maintain the power supplies. pg&e says it's aware of the requests to stop the smartmeters but insists they are safety every safe and effective . in fact, they say smartmeters are less powerful than wireless router

lydia, go ahead. caller: thank you.'m very interested to ask if there's a possibility that this supreme court ruling, giving a person who is a corporation, could in a strange way go up to the immigration movement in arizona. from the -- host: lydia, just tell me why you think those two cases may eventually be tied together. caller: ok. excellent question. because in this procedure that gave a person who corporations, it said any person that a state does not have the right to deny, quote, any person. in fact,, it was never ruled on. it connects up to the santa clara case that goes back, i think it is, to 1886. but the supreme court never discussed personhood of corporations. it's only a short paragraph. if i could just read it to you, maybe c-span could post on your website this procedure that all of this is connected -- if i could just quickly read it. in an unusual precedence, chief justice -- observed that he court would not consider the question quote whether the provision in the 14th amendment to the constitution wa

host: upper marlboro, md., lydia.aller: the hypocrisy of the republican party never ceases to amaze me. when george bush came into office he had a balanced budget, a surplus. where was all the outrage of the big spending in the first six years of his administration? he wasted the stimulus. he borrowed billions to give tax cuts to the rich. he fought two wars he was not a dime paid for. i'm so sick of hearing about this big government. bobby jindal was a republican who did no one stimulus money. as soon as the oil spill he is screaming. the president, they need to get down here -- you only want big government when you have a problem. guest: i'm not going to defend president bush and regards to spending. nor am i going to defend my republican leadership at the time in congress. we spend too much money. clearly, we did some things that were not paid for. obviously, when you are fighting a war, indeed two wars, you are trying to recover from the devastating attack on the twin towers. and after the dot-com bubble could bur