and it's a lot of money. t who is to say that we're going to really -- >> or you could go the other way. right now they're not going to get a break on the taxes they are paying right now, about $3.5 million, $4 million for the payroll tax. san francisco risks twitter going down to the peninsula and losing that out altogether. now there say finite time limit on this that they can collect this tax break for no more than six years in the period. the question is, though, has this ever worked before? we've seen there's been a biotax credit for companies going to the mission bay area. that's works. we started trying that in san francisco with the film industry to give them some kind of a tax break because we're losing a lot of business to vancouver and other cities that have the film industry. people aren't quite sure what to do with it. this is economics. it's land use, politics, policy, a lot of personalities involved with this as well. it's got everyone scrambling, though. a company like twitter really is this ki

it was a lot of working-class folks. my father was a shore worker, my mother was an office worker at usc. my parents were divorced when i was 10 years old, and i moved to the east coast for six years before going back to california after high school. i went to school at uc santa barbara, graduated in 19988 -- 1988. i have lived in the excelsior since 1999. i have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community organizer, i worked at a labor organization supporting janitor's working in our high- rise buildings. i was a legislative aide before .wr. i got to see how it all work from the outside, community organizations supporting young people, children, families, working for labor, and saw how city hall could be an effective tool for change and then considered running in 2007, 2008, and somehow, i made it. >> you were raised in los angeles, moved to the east coast. what made you want to come back and live in san francisco? >> i love cities. i never felt like i lived

you have had a lot of u.s. presidents some bilious the award has been pretty tainted i don't know whether you're aware of this peter but in one nine hundred thirty six someone suggested out old hitler for the peace prize this was of course not taken up but he was suggested might have to mount gandhi never was awarded the peace prize so it is a pretty there's a there's a very interesting norwegian jury is frederick have from a who's written a book on the nobel peace prize and he says that the peace prize for truly from the beginning violated alfred nobel's instructions that nobel have said peace prize should only go to those people actively engaged in peace and it's been hijacked by retired norwegian politicians and a cold war academic from the past to hand it out at will and there was a lot of criticism in norway when obama got if and when others got it i mean kissinger is a case in point. and up and you'll notice other people have got it and gabrielle garcia marquez himself a prize winner of the nobel prize wi

it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in park

we do have a lot of crime in district 2. both crimes against individuals but also against merchants along our merchant corridors. chestnut. union in particular has been hit. fillmore and sacramento. it is a big deal. we also have the break-ins. we need to be very mindful that people keep their iphones and laptops out of sight. but it is a big deal. one of the things i talk a lot about on the campaign, making sure that we do fund our public safety departments. we have to make some tough decisions this year, but to me, one of the biggest priorities is making sure that we have our police and firefighters and sheriffs' offices and their budgets fully funded so that we can ensure that public safety does not lag during these budget times. again, in district 2, i do not think it is talked about as much. we are fortunate that we do not have a lot of homicides. we do not have a lot of those types of serious crimes. but the crimes that to happen to matter to the people in district two. so as a local supervisor, it is incumbent upon me,

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but we also saw a lot of frustration. your video showed protesters even in the events is the the st. regis hotel where one group of protesters from a group called freshjuiceparty.com paid $76,000 to sit at a table and sing to him. >> wait a minute. explain that. why would they pay $76,000 to sing to him? >> it was a fund-raiser in which you had to pay at least $5,000 to get a seat at the st. regis, up to $38,000. $35,000. and they paid the freight for an entire table. >>was going to say. >> they interrupted his speeches. >> belva: to say what? they were protesting the treatment of private manning in the wikileaks case. they had a litany of concerns which we saw around the bay area as he traveled around. whether it was health care, what happened to single payer, gay marriage, people called out those kind of things. you know. obama had to deal with this. this trip was about picking up money for his re-election campaign, which is going to be very expensive. he probably picked up about 4 million bucks in the bay area. at the s

we plant a lot of trees from australia and new england. brisbane box, they're well adapted, they have trees that will do well in our climate. a bigger chaltoning plant in many parts of the san francisco, the micro climate, we have windy area, really foggy areas and part of the reason we don't have native trees, is there weren't a lot of native trees in those climates. they're shrubry and branchry and they don't make good street trees. >> a good street tree is a tall tree that hasn't been topped or hacked back to get under wires. one reason this is lovely, is it is allowed to achieve its actual frm and a lot of times you see this lollipop trees or trees that are packed back to get under wires. on this particular street, we don't have overhead wires, we'll release them and they can definitely more naturally. >> this is a great street tree, it is a new tree, it is a hearty urban tree but it didn't have some of the problems of a ficas. it is more like a column at maturity, it gets good size, but it is less prone, it will do sidewalk damage or i

he owned a lot of malls around the country. d to go, myself and the governor, we had to go to seattle washington to meet with the nordstrom family. we walked into a four seasons hotel i think it was and we register and this desk clerk says governor, mayor cianci. someone thought he was menachem begin, world figure, that they knew him. [laughter] and the guy went back to get a room keys and i said bruce don't get all stressed. the kid probably went to johnson and wales. [laughter] so the kid came back and i so by the way and where did you go to school? he said johnson and wales. [laughter] the next morning we end up going to meet with the nordstrom family in their offices, and we are sitting there in the governor goes first and he says, you know you must have heard we have some budget problem. he said don't worry we will be able to straighten that out. i'm going to broaden the tax base on the sales tax. we want to start taxing clothes, shoes. that is all nordstrom sells our clothes and shoes, right? [laughter] so the nordstrom's

last year, we were able to protect a lot of services by using about $120 million of federal revenue have our health department, the human services agency. those funds have gone away this year, so that leaves us with a gap that we need to make up. again, our cost growth -- we have among our wages, pension costs and health care -- we have over $100 million worth of growth in those expenses alone. and the other costs of doing business for the city are increasing at the same time. the mayor, under the city charter, is required to balance that gap by june 1 and submit a proposed balanced budget to the board of supervisors, who will then take up the budget and make adjustments to the mayor of's proposal -- the mayor's proposal, said that is the task before us over the next couple of weeks. one of the things i hear from folks often is that san francisco has a $6.5 billion budget. why is a $305 million deficit such a problem? the main reason for that is that there are different categories within the city budget. the biggest division in the city budget is the distinction between what is in the ge

i have a lot to be happy about. this is the 100th anniversary celebrating international women's day and to tell you we have quite a bit to celebrate. we probably have the highest number of women commissioners ever in the history of the city today. isn't that wonderful we have clearly a good and growing balance of women on the board of supervisors, commissions, agency appointments, and department heads. i'm proud to be heading up this very complicated city. [laughter] one that does not let me sleep very much. certainly -- i said this in many occasions. these last eight weeks, i've fallen in love with the city evening the for the eight weeks ago because it's such a wonderful place to be. every community that i visite, t fascinates me how so many other people who work here, but even those who do not just love the city and they do what they can to make sure it is running well. it is very natural that as i am thrust with the responsibility of being mayor that i look for talent. i think a lot of the talent is with the wome

we are missing a lot when we do not see that there is a lot of activity going on. there is a lot more than the tea party, is what i'm saying, and we just do not see that coverage. can you talk about the changes you have seen in sacramento as the number of reporters has been cut in more than half? >> as i say, when you decrease the number of reporters and do not have as many seasoned reporters, the depth of the information decreases. and that is a serious problem. i think the solution is in fact that we have to accept the economic realities that we have right now. that is that the normal business model of having print media -- that model is not sustainable. you have got to begin to reinvent that particular model and then in its place are these alternative news sources. you have to then ask the question whether or not they themselves can fill that particular role. we have to somehow get that information out to the general public. >> do we have more questions? >> it looks like i may be one of the only people here that does not remember what life was like before the in

a lot of americans have a lot of money invested in the emerging market economies. how worried should they be about overheating. >> i don't want to be giving particular investment advice. that's not my role. >> general advice. >> i think this is an issue that, not surprisingly, economies are often a little slower to be able to pull the punch bowl away, as william mcchesni once said. some are now acting. it is important to see where some of these can create opportunities. some may be based on supply-site bottl bottlenecks. and so over the medium and long-term, these are great growth opportunities. one of the things we've done at the bank is create an asset corporation. we're drawing sovereign funds and pension funds to create investment in these private sector countries. in the near term, i think these are issues that one has to watch closely. >> right now the world bank estimates that about a billion people go hungry. over the course of this economic difficulties that we've had over the last couple of years, how have the poured fared? and has the developed world and

i have led a lot of the urban coalition says. i am leading a campaign and there is a card on each of your tables. in this city where unemployment for african-american youth is 28%, this is twice the national average. among african-american young men, only about 30% are greg tweeting from high-school. i want you to adopt one of our schools. i want to have mentors for the kids who are chronically truant, who have problems. i am asking you to look at in giving 8 -- to the public school teachers. and bring them into shadow your employees for a month. when they go back, they can have real world experience. of course, give your young person an internship. if you give a young person up an opportunity to shadow someone and the possibilities and if you give them an internship, they're more likely to graduate from high school, they're more likely to go on to college. that is the kind of experience we want. oakland, but this was the number 8 the city with the most woman entrepreneurs. there is an engineering at the academy that cents for kid

but also, a lot of community arts centers. there is all these community arts space is that i just love, and it makes our neighborhoods a much more colorful and livable as well. >> what motivated your interest in politics? >> i guess i have always been passionate about civil rights and equality for everyone, and i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality and other issues, but i guess i have always been someone that is vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, and having to listen to many perspectives before making key decisions. as an activist in chinatown, i have always felt that working families and people who work in our neighborhoods need to have much more support. it is always about giving more voice to immigrants or the underserved and workers in the city. that is what drives my passion as a supervisor. >> tell me about the process of running for supervisor. what did you learn from the campaign process? was anything surprising? supervisor mar: i had to move from b

it is a lot of fun to play. you are going to have a great opportunity, because you are going to be able to learn a lot about lifelong values. this will serve you well. not just in school. but throughout your life. the great part is you get to have fun doing that. you get to play golf while you are doing that. it is going to be a great time for you. i have been blessed in meeting a lot of students to have gone to a first tee program and they have gone on to great things in college and post-college. and they've learned a lot of important things through the program. i encourage all of you to take full advantage of it, to play golf, to enjoy your whole time in the first tee program. we are happy to be a part of the. we are offering a check to fund some of the activities, and i am thrilled to give you that. [applause] >> wow. [unintelligible] >> there you go. [cheers and applause] >> now unfortunately, as tiger woods found out, they do not take those at the door. [laughter] >> deputy superintendent caramba, would you

of fans from japan a lot of fans a really lot figure skating i'm not sure. they're going to crown from japan to watch it just a matter of fact people coming from abroad are russia's top olympic officials so i quote that the government. well expedite the visa process for the world figure skating championships what is being done to facilitate these requirements because it's usually pretty hard for foreigners to get these us to a country rival if it's going to be easy for the skaters and colchis who are going to come here for their world championships and the eucharist. i believe with who isn't going to google different situation but anyway will start to try to make their easier way to russia and it's already good how it's going to be for two is for sure i don't know but for sports news and for coral just it's already there to make their. money did do the people who already got tickets for the championships in japan has a can or so so so no i mean somebody what ticket in japan will they have any preferences to come to moscow and say i already got their ticket ch

a lot of mortgages. a lot of dollar volume. they got compensated without regard to the quality of those mortgages. >> tom: so what is your recommendation to fix that kind of practice and are you seeing that put into place? >> what which would recommend is they be compensated based on the future performance of the mortgage, so instead of giving a loan mortgage a $20 grand for $200,000 mortgage, you give him 5 this year, 5 next year and 5 the year after that if the loan is still performing. then you don't end up with mortgages that go belly up after one month. >> professor we have seen a lot of recommendations from this report the. dot frank has a lot. did they address the results of the cries his that we continue to deal with today namely foreclosures and underwater mortgages? >> absolutely. they don't even come close. the lasting legacy of this crisis is going to be how wall street has sidestepped 400 years of real property loss and polluted the legal system with thousands if not tens 6 thousands the forgeries and perjured affi

i do not need to cover this again, but as the mayor said, we are spending a lot of time talking to a lot of communities and stakeholders about how we approach this. i very much look forward to hearing your thoughts on how we tackle this, so thank you very much. >> -- supervisor cohen: ok, thank you, greg. i also want to acknowledge linda young, the cfo and deputy city administrator. is she? ok, thanks, linda. also, supervisor carmen chu is here. she is chair of the budget committee. stand up so everyone can see you. [applause] . thanks, gregg, for that presentation. over the last few weeks, i set up meetings with the community- based organizations in the district with the head of the agencies that fund them. departments -- part of children, youth, and families and to cover the public health as well as human services agencies. these meetings were a good opportunity for our organization heads to speak directly with these agencies about what they are seeing and hearing on the ground in the district. i would like to ask a representative from each meeting group to come up and talk about wh

a lot of the women's are victims of domestic violence. a lot of the women work day in and day out. they want to work with the city and the supervisors. they want to recognize the work the supervisors have been doing to work with the community. she wants to make sure and emphasize that we have to work together to make sure we are tackling these very important budget issues. supervisor campos: thank you. gracias. the general question to department heads who have not had a chance to speak. how do you decide how to cut? how you approach where to begin? what are your priorities? how does the process work, if you are a number of the public trying to understand how the process works? >> of the juvenile probation department, we start off by developing our guiding principles to develop our budget. we have to look along -- at the law, the welfare and institution could that guides the operations on our basic, primary responsibilities related to the processing, guidance, and direction of youth and families that find their way to the juvenile probation department. we focus on our basic principl

we have a seat height to be concerned about, but a lot of other things. for example, people worry about getting into bathtubs because they are slippery. how do you deal with that? >> it all depends. the most important thing you can do is have a grab bar for the tub and shower. we think about the toilet heights. we think about having barrier- free back from -- bathrooms. if you are in a wheelchair, a shower curtain would be a barrier. thinking about the door to the bathroom. you want to have a nice, white door. 3 feet would be very nice. even a little bit larger bathrooms are you could maneuver in it would be helpful. >> let's look at some six. we got an e-mail from some of who watches us online who had a question about whether or not there are any downside to getting one of these vessels sinks, one of the six that sits on top of the counter. >> that is one of the reasons i like j.c. plumbing. they have a great selection, and i can make my point. let's compare these two six. this is a bowl shape, and this is a ceramic that comes straight down. the disadvant

there is going to be a lot of state legislation that clarifies proposition 26, and a whole lot of litigation. president o'brien: it sounds like a recipe for disaster, litigation coming down the pipe. it is not at all clear. so a paint manufacturer was asked to pay a fee to mitigate against the cost to clean up after that. does that qualify as an exemption or not an exemption? since it was created before, it is grandfathered in. in today's terms, if you wanted to apply that example, would it be allowed or would it have to go to voter approval. >> if you wanted to do impact today, you would likely have to do it with voter approval. president o'brien: it is going to a different group of people then paid the fee. the only way it would not have to go to voter approval is if it went back to the paint manufacturers. >> if the benefits were conferred on them exclusively. president o'brien: thank you. that helps. any questions from any commissioners? seeing none. very helpful. thank you for the presentation. i am sure we will be hearing more about it down the pipe. any public comments on this item? >

got a lot of national coverage. it made some difference in people's lives, but i did not take a dime from any corporation. ok? so let's talk about how we go back to the model where people who need investigation, news -- because my duty is not to reflect corporations. let us not be proud that we are moving forward because we do not have journalist unions anymore. that's going back to selling the news that people need, and get rid of the middle man, which is turning out to be a lot of publishers. >> first, thank you for bringing that up. a great question. it gives me the opportunity to talk about two things i am passionate about, perspective and poor people. neither one of those things are efficient -- artificial when it becomes to becoming an millionaire. there is a website that i really liked called poormagazine. that has existed for the past 10 years, focusing on the homeless communities in the bay area. everything that they get is donations and they get few donations. they focus on the things that are ignored by th

um, well, yeah, there's a lot of-- you know, a lot of that. i do things that i want to do, but then again, don't misunderstand. i don't get tons of offers to do things, so it's not like i'm passing up doing the next nicole kidman vehicle so that i can do space ghost, you know what i mean? like, it's--it's-- [laughs] which would be a tough call. i'm offered a lot of fun things, but it's not like i make hard decisions every day. i understand that david letterman was an early inspiration for you. yes, when the letterman show came on when i was in high school, i was motivated to set my sights on a career in comedy. i thought i wanted to be a comedy writer. i wanted to write for the letterman show. i was so impressed with the show and his sense of humor and sensibilities, i-- as sctv was also at that time. i would have watched sctv and david letterman and be very impressed with their sense of humor. that's how i got interested in the medium of stand-up comedy, was being inspired by david letterman. well, in the intro, as being topical-- i mean, tha

thanks a lot. for taking a break but still to come one hundred fifty years ago today the civil war began here in the u.s. so it's not have a look at the status of blacks in america but i ask if we've really reached equality or the prison system has become the new form of slavery now first try to improve the u.s. image in the muslim world the international islamic forum began today here in washington can the west really improve their image while waging three wars in muslim countries i cannot. let's not forget that we had an apartheid. i think. either one well. we never got the look as the safe get ready because the freedom. they charged here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. new web site with twenty four seven live streaming news times what to do about the ongoing financial hardship unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never. aren't. you guys welcome michel and tell me alone a show we part of our guests have to say on the topic now

a lot of bs in there. >> a lot of bs in there. a lot of bs.een some dispute over how transparent this particular administration has been anyway. >> reporter: yeah, right. critics have compared this award to something like the nobel prize, giving the president recognition in hopes he'll do what he said he'll do when he ran, but there are people around town who say if you compare obama to some previous administrations like george w. bush, obama is going to get pretty decent marks. >> okay. let's talk baseball, shall we. you a baseball fan? >> yeah, i love baseball. i'll go see the nationals game. >> when i was still living in d.c. i got to cover the opening night of the nats stadium and every season it's the president throwing out the first pitch but last night president obama wasn't there. >> right. >> why? >> short drive from the white house to the nationals game. he could have thrown out that ceremonial first pitch. i mean, there's a widespread explanation, not attributed to the white house directly, that he got too much attention and critici

well there are a lot of things going on if you look at the super long time period like since the time of the dinosaurs we've actually been on a cooling trajectory and no one's quite sure why that is that greenhouse gases used to be a lot more abundant than they are now in the last two to three million years it's gotten cool enough now that the polar regions are permanently covered with ice which they didn't used to be and in this new kind of a beginning of an ice house state you could say small changes in the way the earth moves around the sun and relative to the sun actually make natural cycles where you bring slight warming or slight cooling to the key polar areas where the ice sheets began and where they start to melt. and so basically you know all you have to do to make an ice age come and go is that you cool down the summers a little bit in the arctic areas of northern canada let's say and more snow falls in the winter than can melt in the summer so it builds up over time and if you give it enough time you build up a giant ice sheet that flows under its own weight and buries plac

there's a lot of money on the table for that. how much of that money's going to end up in europe supporting telecommunications there rather than the united states. so it's a big deal, but as much as anything would kind of -- what kind of troubles me is this just kind of sucks the oxygen out of so many issues that are pending before the federal communications commission. you know, we can chew gum and walk at the same time, i guess, but this effects so much of what we're doing. i think whether this goes forward or not has an effect on the whole issue of sprem auctions. -- sprem auctions. i think it has an impact on public safety, and the list just goes on and on. so it's a lot to absorb, and, you know, i've been at the commission almost ten years now, and it seems sometimes we're just kind of the federal merger commission. that's because companies bring us so many mergers. it's always the last one, you know, we're not going to be back. but as soon as you approve one, then somebody else is through the door saying, hey, you let the ot

s now a lot of. people even at remote hunting camps have you know d.v.d. players and televisions and stuff so there's been a general modernization i suppose and with that comes a sort of deterioration of traditional publisher. bad well in many ways. there's nothing wrong with you know the modernizing and and cultures have to change you can't cultures in a museum but. when people are you know. sort of if you like you want to say educated from their own culture if you give them a sort of danish educational russian education then we should let you know education should lead somewhere there should be jobs or something for them to do and that's what the danger as i see it at the moment in a lot of northern communities there just aren't the jobs so you know the people are left sort of between two worlds they're neither in their traditional culture nor they generally kind of accepted into european or whatever culture they were what would you want to deceive or example if those people of the indigenous people of the north get educated get more modernizing there the

we recognize a lot of these organizations are doing a lot with very little. they are doing things with that dollar that other agencies probably could not do. it is a balance. we look forward to continuing that discussion. next question? >> [speaking spanish] [applause] >> good evening, everybody. i work in the collective for women. >> [speaking spanish] [applause] >> it is difficult to hear about the budget cuts for the youth, families, housing. >> [speaking spanish] >> the immigrant population will be very effective -- affected. >> [speaking spanish] >> how can we work together with the organizations so the budget cuts do not affect the immigrant families? >> [speaking spanish] [applause] >> [speaking spanish] [applause] supervisor campos: thank you. does anyone want to add anything to that? yes? the last part was not translated. >> she mentioned there are a lot of community members here. she wanted to recognize that women's collective in the back that are here for the same reason everyone else is here. they care about the families. they care about the kids.

in here i want your opinion do you think that these documents have made it very clear that we have a lot of bad guys or is it made it clear that we have fourteen year old eighty nine year olds people that we were detaining just because they wore a specific type of watch that apparently was handed out at some bomb making sessions somewhere in afghanistan or that if they claimed that they were a farmer of a cork our intelligence agencies thought that that was a typical al qaeda cover story. so i think you read the reports of the documents i'm not sure just as it really seems to me like you nine year old guy was a mensch you're being held in guantanamo is not good for national security a forty two year old same thing holding him for really no cause you know people from al jazeera al-jazeera help because they want to know algiers zero work you are someone who was arrested by the tower to tell the imprisoned help in those days because they want to find out about i will tell them prisons were they tortured people there they brutalize them treated like a subhuman and you're just going you know

we spend a lot. we spend 1.5 trillion dollars so far. we can build a big chunk of our country for that. we go to afghanistan in we go to iraq. we go to school and we build a road. they blow up the school and we build another one. in the meantime we cannot get a fucking school built. it is unbelievable. when i heard we were going to iraq, somebody said we were going to the oil. i said that makes sense. that is smart. a k? now i am saying that makes sense. the second largest oil deal in the world, it the second largest reserve in the world, $15 trillion. that does a lot to solve our deficit problem. does it not? $15 trillion. seconds after saudi arabia. here is what we do. we go into iraq and a guesstimate their army. we have policemen. we have a police man over here. everybody hates us. what i say is simply very sinister. iran within 15 minutes after we leave one not be fighting. they will walk into iraq. they will take over iraq. there will take over the oil wells. we lost thousands of soldiers with the tens of thousands of soldiers. i se

of we've got a lot a lot u.s. lawmakers in bed with military defense contractors military defense contractors employ a lot of people across united states they're in every district in every state united states so in order to cut funds to those corporations that a ploy a lot of people is very tough for some just keep districts but even dana rohrbacher you saw well that's what i wanted to ask what brings these lawmakers together how are these ones that are beholden to these contractors and this campaign money well i would they not have you know raytheon or boeing plants in their district sure they do you saw walter jones in there is a republican walter jones has to please you in his district walter jones was the freedom fries guy he was the one that said that we need to call french fries freedom fries he's had to come to jesus moment why because he was really motivating these people because they see what war does they see that war kills people they see that war kills freedoms here you can't be the mayor of baghdad an