as such, the san francisco department of the environment climate program recently convened two meetings of the economic prosperity jobs and environmental justice panel to create policy structure and directives that support the growth of the new local green economy. members of this panel represented a community activists, nonprofit organizations and job-training programs dedicated to addressing the economic and environmental concerns of low-income residents from underserved marginalized communities. the economic prosperity jobs and environmental justice advisory panel supports the city's climate action planning efforts and recommends that the city formally link climate planning to social equity and job opportunities in the following ways -- i'm going to read an excerpt here. integrate social equity goals and environmental justice into the city sustainability and climate action planning efforts, include a public participation process aimed to reach the communities most impacted by pollution and climate change. and for any planning and decision-making during implementation of the city's climate action str

geoffrey my run in newton is a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the department of economics at harvard university he's also a senior fellow at the capitol institute and he's also the author of the book drug war crimes the consequences of prohibition and in san diego we cross the acer hutchinson he is a senior partner at the acer hutchinson law group all right gentlemen this is cross talk about means crosstalk rules in effect but before let's have a look at a short report about this forty year old war. a worldwide enterprise worth some four hundred billion dollars a year illegal drug trafficking has become one of the most ferociously lucrative businesses in the world alongside only the oil industry and the arms trade and single largest market the u.s. is also the world's biggest consumer of cocaine heroin and marijuana shipped from colombia and mexico although the u.s. government has been hard pressed to control and retail the necrotic straight drug related violence has spread like wildfire across latin america and especially mexico our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fue

jacob feldman author of the cost of government report he's a murkiness and a fellow in the department of economics at george mason university and is an associate of the tax policy director for americans for tax reform jay thanks so much for being. all right so the cost of government how is this different from tax freedom if that happened in april. i thought we paid all the polls absolutely you have access here unfortunately you haven't paid for the massive regulatory regime that's out there extra deficit spending that's going on above and beyond tax freedom day so those are the direct individual taxes april eleventh when you add in everything else you get the burris you get all twelve two thousand and eleven and that's counting all the extra days the past tax freedom day i believe on april twelfth that has to be paid at some point just right now on the backs of the children why is it so important to point this out it's i mean it's not like it's an officially recognized government holiday not like anything happens today but it's a chance to do what why do you when you print this out and i missed he

the department of economic security. the welfare office. she was helping amal with her benefits and texting a friend why she waited. suddenly at 1:18 p.m. she sent this message. >> dude, so scary. i'm with my aunt at welfare place and guess who walks in? my dad. i'm so shaky. >> she gets pinged back. >> did he see you? >> she responds i don't think so. his fat [ bleep ] is right by the door so i can't even leave. i'm laughing like a crazy person. i hate when this happens to me. i knew i should haven't woke up. >> her friend then answers. oh, dear, that is awkward. what happening with your parent misway? i thought they were on good terms. >> according to police, falla was unemployed and also seeking benefits. he left the welfare office first. they finished just before 2:00 p.m. amal would later testify that she locked her key in the car and while her son drove over with the spare they walked over for a cold drink. they never made it. >> 911 emergency. >> i'm standing at 8990 west peoria avenue at the des office in the parking lot. i just had

the department of economic security. the welfare office. she was helping amal with her benefits and texting a friend why she waited. suddenly at 1:18 p.m. she sent this message. >> dude, so scary. i'm with my aunt at welfare place and guess who walks in? my dad. i'm so shaky. >> she gets pinged back. >> did he see you? >> she responds i don't think so. his fat [ bleep ] is right by the door so i can't even leave. i'm laughing like a crazy person. i hate when this happens to me. i knew i should haven't woke up. >> her friend then answers. oh, dear, that is awkward. what happening with your parent misway? i thought they were on good terms. >> according to police, falla was unemployed and also seeking benefits. he left the welfare office first. they finished just before 2:00 p.m. amal would later testify that she locked her key in the car and while her son drove over with the spare they walked over for a cold drink. they never made it. >> 911 emergency. >> i'm standing at 8990 west peoria avenue at the des office in the parking lot. i just had

the department of economic security. the welfare office. she was helping amal with her benefits and texting a friend why she waited. suddenly at 1:18 p.m. she sent this message. >> dude, so scary. i'm with my aunt at welfare place and guess who walks in? my dad. i'm so shaky. >> she gets pinged back. >> did he see you? >> she responds i don't think so. his fat [ bleep ] is right by the door so i can't even leave. i'm laughing like a crazy person. i hate when this happens to me. i knew i should haven't woke up. >> her friend then answers. oh, dear, that is awkward. what happening with your parent misway? i thought they were on good terms. >> according to police, falla was unemployed and also seeking benefits. he left the welfare office first. they finished just before 2:00 p.m. amal would later testify that she locked her key in the car and while her son drove over with the spare they walked over for a cold drink. they never made it. >> 911 emergency. >> i'm standing at 8990 west peoria avenue at the des office in the parking lot. i just had

of this report. government by developer. that is what we are dealing with here. there has been no daylight whatsoever in this project between the planning department, the mayor's office of economic and workforce development. , and the developers. this is, indeed, government by developer. where this is headed, the planning department's responses, you may be tempted to incorporate the planning department's response to the civil grand jury findings as your own. i would caution you to break this cycle of government by developer. and to do an independent response. for those of you who have concerns about the enforceability of rent control, for example, laid those out in your response. for those of you, including president to, who believe -- chiu, that these are ironclad promises, include your response. include your dissenting views, even if it is a minority of the board, but respond in substance. do not just adopt what is an extremely one-sided, and i believe, insufficient response from the plans department. that is not respectful to the project and to those who developed this project. it does not need to be yours. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> good morning, s

pros period of time, exploring the economic benefits of large-scale investments in building a clean energy and economy in the united states. he's currently consulting with the u.s. department of energy and the international labor organization. he has in the past worked with the joint economic committee of the u.s. congress and as a member of the capital formation subcouncil of the u.s. council. in the negative, opposed to a financial transaction tax is professor james angel at georgetown university. coming from the california institute of technology, where he earned his b.s. degree, he got a ph.d. at the university of berkeley in finance and an m.b.a. from harvard business school. i might add that professor pollin got his ph.d. from the new school for social research in new york city. professor angel began his professional career as an engineer for pacific gas and electric, where he worked on regulatory issues. he is an author of many books and is often quoted in the major press on financial issues. he is a visiting -- he served as a visiting academic fellow and resident at the national association of securities dealers. he has visited over 50 stock exchanges all over the

at syracuse he was trustee professor of economics at the maxwell school. he was chairman of the department of economics. the doctor serves on the boards of the tax foundation, national economists club and the committee for a responsible federal budget. the floor is yours, sir. [applause] >> well, thank you. happy birthday to social security. hope i make it to 76. >> i also have three parts to my remarks. anyone who talks about the system at this point in time has to document the problems that are out there and spend a little time on that. then i want to, for the purposes of framing the debate, talk a little bit about what i think are the five crucial decisions that one has to make in thinking about the future of social security and once you go through that list you'll know where you stand in terms of reforms and i'll close with some thoughts about the way i think the united states should go. but let me just start with the problems. the top problem that you hear so much about is the financial condition of social security. and there are many different numbers, there are a ga zillion differen

of the economic policy for the john mccain presidential campaign. [unintelligible] moved on to syracuse university from 1990-2001. he mistrusted professor of economics. chair of the departmenterves on the board of the tax foundation the floor is yours, douglas. [applause] >> thanks jim. happy birthday to social security. i hope i make it to 76. i have three parts to my remarks. i want to talk about the five crucial decisions that one has to make regarding social security. once you make the list, you have an idea regarding the reforms. let me start with the problems. the financial condition of so security is what we hear about. there are many different numbers and metrics. it is easy to get completely baffled about what is going on. the simplest way to think about it is revenues about 5% gdp benefits that have to come out, usually 4.5%. they are gone. they will rise to about 6.5% gdp. the revenues are here as far as the eye can see. you can add it up or do infinity and beyond and get different numbers. we have benefits that exceed what we can provide, and it has to be addressed. problems get lost inside of that that are important. there are different problems. the disability

ceased to be a police operation and became department of public health, i think department of public health for some reason has blinders on when it comes to the economic effect of the penalties that are assessing on these particular businesses. i think if the facts as presented were accurate, the police department made a mistake, in that the decoy should have said i am not of age. it is not a lie of commission, but a lot of omission. but beyond that, i hope it resonates somewhere in the department of public health but the actual fine is to this particular business. even if we were to have that -- even it were to cut that in half, or a quarter, and decide that based on the number of years this gentleman has been in business, the fact that he has 7-eleven doing their own checks because he is a franchisee and there remain a partner of his, based upon the fact that he is going to the expense of hiring beverly services inc. in order to be more diligent about not selling tobacco to minors -- granted, the court should have asked for her id. but there are times when they do that and make a mistake. there is an agency issue. it is still very difficult to think

billion euro bailout for the country and for more now i'm joined by dr christian right from the economics department of the university of wired sciences in frankfurt thanks very much for joining us tonight now for from the very beginning i mean it was on likely that anything revolutionary would be said at the meeting basically for fear of upsetting they call markets but can they can you afford to ignore the worsening situation without doing anything drastic. well actually they've made quite a secret all this beating so as a matter of faith i don't expect them to come up with a real surprise for us. in a way i expect them to all of this cover up the whole thing and then try to have some that's a grass growing over the whole situation until everybody is going to forget as. if they have the raw it's time to take the appropriate measures they should have excluded greece at the very beginning else this crisis over the years old they should have taking some rules the rescue money to cushion these for the population of greece and this would have been a very strong sign. well the hold that everybody is really

at syracuse, he was trusty professor of economics at the maxwell school. he was chairman of the department of economics. he serves on the boards of the tax foundation, national economists club, and the committee for a responsible federal budget. the floor is yours, sir. [applause] >> thank you, and happy birthday to social security. i hope i make it to 76. i also have three parts to my remarks. anyone who talks about the system at this point in time has to document the problems out there and spend time on that, and for purposes of framing the debate, i want to talk about what i think are the five crucial decisions one has to make in the about the future of social security. once you go through that list, you will know where you stand in terms of reforms, and i will close with some thoughts about the way i think united states should go, but let me just start with the problems. the top problem we hear so much about is the financial condition of social security. there are many different numbers. there are a gazillion different metrics, and it is absolutely positively easy to get completely baf

hearing would include the mayor's office of housing, as well as the office of economic and workforce development. the planning department and of the controller. the board would like to discuss the city's plan for significantly increasing the production of moderate and middle-income housing. we would like to review the status of the inclusion area housing program and consider how this will address a needed increase and moderate income housing, as well as the connection between the production of this level of housing and the city's ability to retain, a track, and increase private sector and non-private jobs. so there's a lot on tap for that hearing. the second hearing request was introduced by supervisor avalos. this concerns the conversions of housing and rental housing to vacation rentals. the board request presentations from the planning department as well as dbi, rent board, the treasurer, on the magnitude of the problem of these conversions and potential solutions to stem such conversions. that concludes the report, unless you have additional questions. commissioner antonini: excellent report, as always. supervisor m

the executive committee and other entities, such as the mayor's office, and other departments such as the office of economic and workforce development, also hsa, and others that do not have an official seat on the committee, yet were critical to create a collaborative realignment plan that joined in this effort wit. there is a listing of all those individuals that helped develop it in the body of the plan. i would like to say a special thank you to them and to recognize the city's spirit of collaboration. i work with the chiefs from across the state. we're in the same place in terms of developing the plans. san francisco has a lot to be proud of we have been working on it for months and have a plan to present to you. it will help us prepare for this milestone date. also what i would like to recommend or recognize is that no state prison inmates will be released from jail that are in prison right now. as of october 1, any and made that is in prison that will be released, instead of going to parole, there will come to adult probation supervision. any individual sentence to state prison that meets the criteria

of the m.i.t. economic department, and what do you believe of this?> well, i believe there is a short-run reaction ran longer run. and the short-run, we are seeing people reacting to fear, and over the course of the next beabeak -- next few weeks we will have to see how long this will be, and also the cost of borrowing will rise, so we will have to deal with that as well. >> and you say that people will stuff money into mattresses and obviously not literally, but explain the thought process there. >> ellwell, it gets to the poin where people get to a point where they get so scared they wanted to hold treasury bills and we saw that when lehman brothers went under, and people were willing to give up money to hold on to them, and when with have flight and panic, we could see a similar situation occurs over the course of the next few days. >> and you also say this is the worst thing to have happened to a weak economy and you have some who say that what we experienced prior to the taking office by this administration, some experts belief we could dip below

eakin was trustee professor of economics at the maxwell school and chairman of the department of economicsdr. holtz-eakin serves on the boards of the tax foundation, national economists club and the committee for responsible federal budget. douglas holtz-eakin, the floor is yours. [applause] >> thank you jammin thank you 60-plus and happy birthday to social security. i hope i make it to 76. i also have three parts to my remarks. anyone who talks about the system at this point in time has to document the problems that are out there and spend a little time on that. and for the purposes of framing the debate, i want to talk a little bit about what i think are the five crucial decisions that one has to make thinking about this is a -- future of social security. once you go through that list you will know where you stand on reforms and i will close with some thoughts on the way i think the united states should go. but let me just start with the problems. the top problem here so much about is the financial condition of social security, and there are many different numbers. there are eight gazill

agencies such as the department of defense and education. we want to know how the economic downturn forced you to change the way you live. we invite you to record a testimonial on your cell phone or camera and upload it to ureport@abc7.com. >> we are learning more about the latest homicide victim in richmond. mother of four was gunned down last night. her male companion was injured. that makes step homicides in the last four weeks and 22 surpassing the homicide total from all of last year. abc7's amy hollyfield is live at the richmond police department. amy? >> reporter: we have a picture of 25-year-old rose mcfadden. police found her dead on the sidewalk early this morning. they don't know why someone shot her. and the male companion she was with, if-year-old man in cit -- 24-year-old man suffering with life threatening injuries. he was shot in the head. officers have not made any arrests. friends and relatives of 25-year-old rose mcfadden rushed to the scene of her death within an hour of the murder. they watched police in total disbelief, that the violence in richmond ha

ceased to be a police operation and became department of public health, i think department of public health for some reason has blinders on when it comes to the economic effect of the penalties that are assessino

of economic work force. have them write a letter so the planning department can advise me how to see you.i am looking at a floor plan and are letter saying it is right here but he needed all of those steps. that is part of the process. commissioner riley: d you have any suggestions as far as how we can help? >> there are a couple of things that are going to take place. there will be a joint committee meeting. we will need to include the sfmta. we need to look at the impact fees and how they are applied. that is more long-term. i think in the short term, the commission can direct staff to write a letter to all departments in regards to who administers the impact fees. in our current economic climate, considerations may need to be given. what is most important for the economy is job growth. commissioner clyde: i wanted to say that this week i had a similar conversation with a different business. it took almost two years to turn a small cafe into a cafe /restaurant. it took two years because of planning and the building department and the building inspector, you know, having problems within