newspapers, we read all the national stuff too, but we really depend on local papers and local websitesand local news bloggers and reporters for news that is not yet national news, like for instance, the wendy davis filibuster this summer. without the texas tribune hooking up that video feed and having their reporter tweeting the play by play, the wendy davis filibuster may never have become national news and she may not be running for governor. and then when mark sanford went missing and tried to tell people he was hiking the appalachian trail when really he was kanoodling with his mistress. it was this summer in elizabeth city, north carolina where a local republican challenged the residency of a student who was trying to run for local office. that story has huge implications for voting rights across north carolina and the country. the local newspaper reported that story that way, and that's how we found out about it. any time you see a story on national tv that starts in a small town, odds are that story began with local reporters who would not give up and who reported it right and a

what we're seeing people are buying local. local can be u.s. it can be your local neighborhood or your state. it can be your region. but people are proud of the beers that are made in the united states like stone brewing or port city or brew house. that's something that we're fighting for at this time in the narrative are much is being outsourced. a hundred years ago basically all the beer in the united states was made here. today the largest brewery in the united states might make 2 million barrels, and those large conglomerate companies are overseas. >> i was out to dinner with my young adult son and he was asking the waiter about their drink offerings. when the waiter went away i asked, and he said dad, if you drink better you drink less. do you relate to the product differently if you have that kind of relationship with it? >> well absolutely. it's the difference between fast food and fine dining restaurant or actually artisan cheese and say pre-wrapped processed cheese slices. we're getting away from of the industrialized notion facsimile

okay colleagues we have before us a position for local local agency formation commission. i actually do have ain't in continuing as chairperson for local agency formation commission and just want to put it out there. if others have an interest as well, i would like to hear about that. and interested anyone interested in being a vice-chair you can speak about that sex with. commissioner campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you mr. chair, i don't know if there could be a combined nomination. my nomination is to nominate you as chair and breed as vice-chair. >> i will second that. >>supervisor john avalos: okay. any discussion? commissioner breed, you are in accord with the motion? very good. okay. let's go to public comment. eric brooks, representing san francisco green party and local grass roots. just to comment commissioner breed has shown some really outstanding leadership on this issue and it's extremely appropriate for her to move to vice-chair on this lafco. thanks. >> wolf neighborhood council in acclimation. >>supervisor john avalos: is there any additional publ

by doing so we are supporting other local businesses and we are helping the local economy in creating more jobs. liquid gold's tasting room will not only be quaint and comfortable but will also education the patrons about the city's history. many don't know that during the gold rush that many breweries started here in the city and were demolished during prohibition. we have a very rich brewing tradition in the city. many don't know in the knob hill neighborhood in california and hyde there used to be a cable car. i intend to establish that in my bar. liquid gold is here to serve the neighborhood. people spend a lot of times in their homes and need a diversity to go. liquid gold will provide an alternative to these neighbors. we'll not be attracting the party people. i have already reached out to the neighborhood groups and local business owners and have not received any opposition to my project. most are excited to hear about liquid gold. one of my potential neighbors, the owner of flowers, she was very excited about my project and we even talked about possibly working in the near fut

i think many of the local authorities including my own local authority has had good plans put in place but not every local authority does as well and it will be lessons to learn there. in terms of that area, the scheme of around 40 million pounds we invested over the next five years and that should protect around 2500 properties i 2018-2019. i would be interested to do something about what more he thinks can be done. >> the prime minister will be aware that the majority of new housing benefit claimants actually got worse. you will be aware that private sector landlords are refusing to take benefits are actually a picking them. what does he say to hard-working families that are losing their homes because of his housing benefit cut? >> i will save your working families is where cutting your taxes, that in april this year will be lifting the 10,000 pounds amount of money that someone can earn before they start paying income tax. i think that makes a big difference for some on minimum wage working a 40 hour week. they will see their tax bill come down by two-thirds. but we do have to take

i want to put local folks on the projects, get local contractors. i really want to do this. where do we start? and i remember we pulled out thes are liewgz before. this is where we got before and we can move forward and supervisor farrell says let's do it and get community folks and there say sense of excitement that will this take off. there is a lot of work to be done and as far as work force we are crafting an approach to qualify the contractors which is critical because we're doing it early at the beginning. qualifying contractors -- not just on the ability to disifer deliver for san franciscans and i know it's something we tried for years with go solar sf and never got there as a solution and using state certified apprenticeship programs and is the conversation right now and how we do that and that is good because some contractors might not doing finance projects all the time. they might be doing other work and other aspects of construction and not always engaging the local work force that is built into the values of this program with the relaunch of greenfinancesf and

. >> [speaking local language] >> loss of life isn't new to the people of aceh. for over 30 years, violent clashes occurred between rebels and the jakarta government, until 2004, when a peace treaty was signed. over 15,000 people died in that conflict. two years after the peace treaty, aceh was hit by a series of deadly floods, killing dozens. experts believe extensive logging in the surrounding hills caused the floods. >> [speaking local language] >> after such adversity, many communities are just trying to rebuild. and for young farmers, like sabaruddin, elephants and other wildlife pose a threat to their livelihood. >> [speaking local language] >> with money on the line, it's often hard to find solutions that are good for both people and elephants. but with no solutions at all, the conflicts can turn ugly. baby elephants are often captured, domesticated, and used for entertainment. >> [speaking local language] [elephant growls] >> this is rajah the elephant. he's been named by the villagers who found him in a trap, on a plantation about a month ago. apparently

bay area local chains. take a look at the facts and incorporate those into our study. we counted everything gas stations and fitness institutions. so we did our best to make sure that everything was as correct as possible. i'd like to thank you for including us in the stakeholder meeting. thank you. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon, members of the planning commission i'm the director of government affairs for the restaurants association. your organization is a member driven organization we represent extinct and chain restaurants. i want to emphasize and ask this commission to analyze the businesses based on commercial district and not supervisorial district it could skew the data and consider looking at the retailer should include charitable giving. thank you >> next speaker is there any further any public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners peter cowen i'm a resident in the upper market area and worked on formula retail controls in 2003 and 4. a couple of thoughts an issue areas to focus on.

and other local spanish as well. to cut it all mcdonnell war with russia we paid the local population a fee for the right to use the area for tourism will be also create jobs for guidance which is now the snow tourism is basically the only economic prospects people have it. i'm not about cutting people out what that emotional. attacking is subject to strict rules the rangers who are blind and country tourists to make sure that the animals are undisturbed. he's group is especially lucky. sis. get the chance to claim the observer finals series connell and her parents. it's every her shiny. the kids to the rhino population is coming again. but you get to eat in between though rhinoceros team members explained that now some animals have actually been resettled from the project area to other parts of the country. the tourists from neighboring south africa are impressed in their country. rhinoceros poaching incident all time high always getting into my amends. i mean it's it's it's a downhill slide. from what i can get the

this is historically a state and local function. virtually everything we are talking about implementing here has to be done at the state and local level, i think. >> regarding that very point, do you think the recommendation that would help with the long lines, such as providing a polling place resource formula in florida should be taken at the local level or state level? the problem is there are 57 different counties. thank you so much for your recommendation. should they be appointed at the state level so there is a consistency and a bigger impact? >> as a native floridian -- native to miami, elections are in my blood. the way these formulas work, and there are three different ones. we are not putting our finger on one in particular, is that you have to assess how long it takes to vote. you have to have the number of machines and number of people you can put there. those variables -- it will depend on the state but will often be contingent upon the county. the formula they use, it really just depends on the type of voting technolo

and the california public utilities commission and cleanpowersf energy efficiency and facilities and local jobs patrols strategies and. >> maybe thank you mr. chair typically we start the status with the status of the puc and barbara hail is here to provide that to you. >> thank you. most of our activities recently on the cca front for in puc proceedings where pg and e's green tariff option has continued to move forward. developing a green rate the statute requires a commission decision by july so we are expecting that the commission will need to issue at least a proposed decision in the april time frame in order to meet that statute requirement at this point we would expect pg and e's projected green tariff rate to be initially offered at 12.3 cents a kill owatt hour and that rate is forecast to increase to 9.4 cents a kilowatt hour in january so pg and e's basic service energy component of basic service rates is increasing come january to 9.4 cents and their current proposal before the cpuc under the green tariff option would be to offer the one hundred percent green power at 12.3 cents

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locals say it's that's going to save the beach before it's lost forever. go to my home on new year's when i was numb the site. bob is dominant. so far. the antidote to zero which locals have been taking stock to the area was kind of funny tights and storm force winds were near the screen. the worst experience i've had here seymour the problem with the show before the ducks that extent. well we live in the west of cartilage that the winds are quite high tall with a lot of time. you realize that the greatest edge but like the rocks. all items off the goalie calls when spirits of the ravages these pictures from nh more chilled the devastation calls in a matter of minutes rolled ripped open and boulders strewn about like pebbles on nh ball from a similar story extensive damage on friday was compounded yesterday the authorities face a huge challenge in dealing with the problems calls in recent days. i read the coastline huge chunks of land of liberty be washed away. we've been moving quickly knowing the charity of assessing the damage and prioritizing the remed

here's a story to illustrate the weird push and coal relationship between local and federal government in the us grand rapids michigan has a reverse called the grand river and be involved with uses to certify its flood walls saying they're too short the mayor however feels that the walls are not only high enough they're a local issue and the feds that should just mind their own damn business so last april days long grain fell in grand rapids which caused flooding people were being evacuated water was rushing into buildings this but it was shelling out money to protect the wastewater treatment plant but mayor heartwell kept delaying the declaration of a state of emergency his colleagues the media and the police kept asking him why he wouldn't make the declaration ensuring they get federal help and fund if water broke over the rivers flood walls the local paper submitted a freedom of information act request for the mayor's e-mails to find out what was behind this delay they just got hundreds of documents back and what they found was a big clear cut middle finger to the bed it boiled down

a brt and local stop and every bus make a stop. that means the bus stops do get further apart in this area for the local service. but we think this is a really good compromised and a good bus design that we can go forward with and respond to a lot of the community feedback that we've heard. i will get into that in an a little bit but expanding on this recommendation. the recommendation is for these new bus lines to be in the center of the street with new medians one on either side of the bus lanes. at the bus stop, the bus stations those medians become the loading platforms and they become the higher level sidewalk platforms and the people will have less to step up and get into the bus and make it for a smoother operation. the platforms are currently longer. we notice sometimes they don't get to actually pull all the way up to the sidewalk and people have to step down to the street in order to get on the bus. this will fix that. this will be an operation where they will be able to pull up towards the platform. >> other pedestrian s

he landed a job at the local office of a leading japanese trading house. he cultivates clients and coordinates business between firms, government, and local companies. he says his education opened the door he never imagined. >> when i was at school i became exposed to different culture, and looking at the quality of education i was getting there, i actually started aiming higher than i would previously think of. >> reporter: and his employer says it's people like him that enable them to tap in to the local market. >> translator: when we employ people from mozambique, it makes it easier to work with local companies. we can enjoy smooth communication, and build trust. >> reporter: business leaders are striking deals for africa's natural resources. but they know they need more than drills and pipelines. to make the investment sustainable, they all have to invest in human resources, too. nhk world, mozambique. >>> there's flooding in the philippines. our meteorologist robert speta has been following that story. robert? >> oh, yeah, gene. and really, over the p

they all live at the local level. so it's the local folks that have to take care of the people. if we fail to adequately address this issue we're forcing our communities to make do with less, a lot less, because we're breaking a promise we've made. by doing so, we're forcing them to reduce or even eliminate the vital resources upon which their citizens rely. i want to emphasize and make it clear this is not an additional source of revenue, not a bonus. county and local governments depend on this revenue when they plan their budgets each year. it's part of the law. they count on it. without it, their budgets are stretched and strained and they will be bankrupt. the decision by the appropriations committee did not include the vital payment in lieu of taxes funding in the omnibus will place counties across the country in very difficult positions and great financial hardship for them all. especially so there's no transition, there was no warning. it was just done. we need to stop playing games with the payment in lieu of taxes program and find a way to ensure its adequately and fair

there is a state role here but the bottom line is the local units. they're the ones that are going to have to apply it and use it. >> one issue might be the inference by certain states like arizona and kansas to enact more stringent voter registration requirements just for their state elections as opposed to federal. i was just wondering if that was an issue that you have looked at and if so a future any conclusions or? >> you are talking about for example the current issues around arizona? >> no, we did not address that issue. >> thank you for having us all here and for noting that the npra is the least complied with voting rights statute. my thanks also for the dmv's seamlessly incorporating their voter registration for many of these other elements. i wonder, why did you stop them recognizing that public service agencies which of course do such an important job transacting with possible eligible voters also seamlessly transition their information and also for example the federal aca and the medicaid exchanges that are also coming? >> i think there'

i think many of the local authorities including my own local authority has had good plans put in place but not every local authority does as well and it will be lessons to learn there. in terms of that area, the scheme of around 40 million pounds we invested over the next five years and that should protect around 2500 properties i 2018-2019. i would be interested to do something about what more he thinks can be done. >> the prime minister will be aware that the majority of new housing benefit claimants actually got worse. you will be aware that private sector landlords are refusing to take benefits are actually a picking them. what does he say to hard-working families that are losing their homes because of his housing benefit cut? >> i will save your working families is where cutting your taxes, that in april this year will be lifting the 10,000 pounds amount of money that someone can earn before they start paying income tax. i think that makes a big difference for some on minimum wage working a 40 hour week. they will see their tax bill come down by two-thirds. but we do have to take

messrs to help local horseman. the president also visited the time when producer with the common good of food safety same producers to make more efforts to provide high quality through it. during a visit to a children's welfare home. you can watch killed his performance in the orange sign language with them. he called for more care from society for orphans and disabled children. before leaving presents the champion horton reports from the regional government. he stressed ethnic unity for economic and social developments in minority areas and acknowledge the region's achievements in economic and social development co ethnic unity he urged the local party officials to cultivate the good work style and with i don't twist involve local people to deepen reform. ten on cctv. tired tonight not the final day of china's lunar year of the snake and the year of the faucets just around the corner. spring festival or two and she hasn't snowed here in china sees people around the country celebrates in their own way. yearly repor

the plays of the crash poses a threat to local population because of its close is scattered all over large areas. the head of the local police reported that the area of the land on which the experts find the wreckage of the helicopter is comparable to the size of a football field. therefore he forgotten the accord or more means in the place until the experts unfinished examination of the territory. the blast at the chemical company mitsubishi materials corporation in my purse pictured in japan kills at least five according to local media reports. another eleven people were injured appearance of erie. experts believe that the possible cause of the powerful explosion was a hydrogen leak according to the representatives of the local police the explosion occurred during the maintenance work of the key transfer equipment currently local police officers and emergency services were at the scene of accident investigation is underway. the number of june from extreme freeze conditions is growing according to reason that at twenty one and that mostly people died in traffic accidents on slippery

this is historically a state and local function.virtually everything we are talking about implementing here has to be done at the state and local level, i think. >> regarding that very point, do you think the recommendation that would help with the long lines, such as providing a polling place resource formula in florida should be taken at the local level or state level? the problem is there are 57 different counties. thank you so much for your recommendation. should they be appointed at the state level so there is a consistency and a bigger impact? >> as a native floridian -- in miami. elections are in my blood. the way these formulas work, and there are three different ones. we are not putting our finger on one in particular, is that you have to assess how long it takes to vote. you have to have the number of machines and number of people you can put there. those variables -- it will depend on the state but will often be contingent upon the county. the formula they use, it really just depends on the type of voting tech knowledge h

it starts while she is teased by a local boy. wajta wants to ride a bicycle and prove she can go faster than the boy. in saudi arabia it is unacceptable for women to ride bicycles, but wajta is a competitive girl and she doesn't care about the rules of society. >> i think girls in saudi they understand it's a very different world and there's so much that they cannot do and that situation makes them, they want to challenge it a little bit more and make them want to prove themselves, so they want better lives, they want better options. yes, a lot of girls are like wajta who have dreams or who want to be part of the bigger picture and they want to assert themselves. >> reporter: mansui says there are many obstacles to making the film that deals with empowering women. >> casting was an issue, also. it was difficult to cast, especially the young girl. we found so many amazing girls, and we thought we had them and they were called and they say we -- they just hesitate and they cannot come. that was very sad to see that they cannot purs

control to our local municipalities to stop speculative ellis act evictions. second item i have is to request a hearing in early next year in chapter 14b of the administrative code t local business enterprise. this is timing for several reasons. early this year, our mayor by order removed the act by rights provisions from office under the administrator. yesterday the contract monitoring division issued and annual report on the past fiscal year. this is a first report on lbe's in the first year even though this has required quarterly reporting. background, we know it comprised 95 or less of businesses contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to our local economy, our economies local back bones. 3 decades ago this san francisco board of supervisors has experienced passive and active discrimination in practices and recognize that history no longer had a place in our city acknowledging that millions of dollars that we spent for services could be a tool to help disadvantaged minorities to increase businesses. chapter 14b now helps all of our businesses in cost

we now want to get local authorities and local health services working even more closely together toe problems of blocked beds and to ensure that there are care packages for people when they leave hospital. we can really see the benefits in the areas of the country where this is working, and we want to make that happen right across the country. >> mrs. cheryl gillan. >> mr. speaker, our excellent local enterprise partnership estimates that buckinghamshire has a £12 billion economy, with nearly 30,000 registered businesses and the european head offices of more than 700 foreign companies. they need the security of long- term economic policies. given that our economic growth has clearly returned, will the prime minister assure me that, unlike the labour party, he will not gamble with those companie'' future and that he will stick steadfastly to his tried and tested long-term economic policies? >> i am grateful to my right hon. friend for what she says. there is a vibrant economy right across the thames valley, including in buckinghamshire, and that is going to be based on sticking to ou

battles because it felt that the united states were propping up these local states. so the things that are being called al qaeda in iraq and syria are not like that at all. they are not multinational. they have a national focus and they are not interested very much in hitting the united states. they're just radical sunni islam political slawrm. islam so i don't think it is the same. >>> when david renniik made a statement, president obama countered by, just because there's a kobe brighten doesn't mean they're nba. david i want to go to you. a significant part of al qaeda's leadership has been taken out. how does that affect their ability to coordinate or carry on any kind of an attack? >> i question that a significant portion has been taken out and is down for the count. whether we look at al qaeda and its senior leadership, it is a clandestine leadership, cellular in nature. studies that have been done on this show it's very difficult to beat such an organization through a strategy that's just based on attrition of leadership. which is basically what our strategy is

on rest of ukraine spreads to other cities where crowds are besieging local administrations while in the capital a temporary truce is holding as the opposition and the government valid to continue talks. with manning protesters dismissing and to go with the regime will look at the radical elements amid the trouble are fueling the violence. in other news no face to face meeting for the syrian government and the opposition as a warring sides agree to talk only through un mediators in different rooms at different times. cairo is rocked by series of deadly blasts claiming at least four lives and injuring dozens of others having anniversary of a twenty one an uprising. what you are seeing a national coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie unrest is engulfing more cities across western ukraine while in kiev government concessions have failed to appease the opposition the two sides plan to hold another round of talks and meant a fragile truce while in many other places the situation no it isn't so peaceful these are here on the map all the main regional cities and in all of dow

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or daschle it is that the worst at the local level. we veto many statehouses are barely covered by the standards in is barely anybody thought because a bunch of people crowd into the white house briefing room we have a sufficient media to do journalism in this country. we don't have sufficient coverage. we don't to. talk about massive changes our states operates a. >> like the progressive magazine. >> exec klay. it is very important but this does not work. it does not fill the void because if you bring $10 billion of ads into the game then you say makes this all working in fact, jack they cannot possibly keep up and it even bigger crisis, a fact checking ads should not be but political coverage is about. it ought to be about big ideas and important things that are debated but to literally say how effective will that be? just to give the example we spent in and even some out of time looking at local races across the country and how they are genetically warped by influence of money. the presidential race of 2012 was not the situation whe

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build out, there are folks that are concerned that there aren't real local jobs and union jobs and so understanding exactly where the locations possibly are as it relates to local build out and understanding the long-term impact so the initial possibilities and increase in job opportunities that could exist and the various layers of experts in those particular jobs what does it mean long-term with regards to job with regards to the local build out and what are we looking at in terms of how the funds are generated through bonds and having a more comprehensive plan that connects the dots that leads us to the direction we want to get to not necessarily over night of course but a 10 year plan realistic plan that's a competitive plan also a clear communications plan because i truly believe one of the challenges during the bart strike for example, the message of what was happening with the bart strike was determined by the bart officials they went out there with their message and had their communication plan and sadly the workers were not on top of what they needed to do in terms of theiss

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to connect them to more of our local scene and make sure that big event are utilized with our local produce that's the heart and movement of our whole food sector innovative. and then as wife also felt the success of our city has partly to do with everybody we do whether it's bio life scientists and the technology industry or merchandising industry here and tourism but the real innovation comes when we recognize that it is the intersections where those industries happen to cross and where they met each other. that's why it's important to see a company like autodesk here and pg&e that ordinarily they do things in the traditional sense people do things on their own. advanced merchandising you can't do anything without this you want to be able to see it before you mass produce it it takes outside the risk and certainly saves money. david chiu and i were there at the autodesk were assisting all the different levels of merchandising. so that cross section is very important. there's more of those areas that can do a lot more for us. you'll find another example when square opens up their headquart