but what i received was from empirical data. thank you very much. supervisor mar: would anyone else from the public like to speak? public comment is closed. mr. malkovich? >> [unintelligible] just a quick note. i cannot emphasize how important this effort is. this is the kind of work that you could summarize by doing more with what we have, doing more with that, it is about connecting all of the resources already in the community that can be used more effectively. in this era of shrinking budgets, being able to not only get more by sharing resources, be they owned by community inventions, or services that are already being provided on the health care side, moving through the neighborhood visitors aside, also proving to have an eye to responsible, sustainable climate change results. so, i think that this is the sort of stuff that people go crazy about when resources are not being coordinated. we finally have the support of the region to do that kind of work. the ones that are most underserved, where the resources are otherwise not in. frankly it is a

more power to those who think, because of what they hear without empirical data. i have been to washington. what ever they are doing with this system, meet certain standards. they are dealing with a train, but they are also dealing with a very old part of our town that now kind of works. if we want to go on the ground, and if we think everything is rosy and not paying attention to the businesses, and we want to adversely impact the businesses in this dire economic times, then more power to you to adjudicate what ever you hear from some rosy comments and maybe thousands of petitions from people that really do not understand really what goes into such type of projects. i have lived here long enough to see what happened on market street and third street. i hopefully will live to see what happens to the central subway. thank you very much. >> to thank you. is there any other member of the public that would like to speak? cnn, public comment is closed. colleagues, this is an action item. -- seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> signals and signs

you have heard from some very astute people here talking about the transportation system with empirical data. that makes a difference from the very general. the third street light rail, when it was first brought to our attention, was supposed to perform in a certain way. it has not. it is very slow. we have issues of safety. we can bring to your attention the best information. our local newspapers are reduced to trash. we do not get good information. papers likthe huffington post ar publications are doing a better job. we call ourselves a liberal city. supervisors, business is not going to be as usual if you keep dumping millions of millions of dollars, as you did with hunters point, other projects that i could name, but i will not name. in the end, it is left to you all. at one time, being a politician was a respectful career. it is not because of such types of decisions. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> adjournment. commissioner mirkarimi: have a good rest of the day. meeting is adjourned. >> i am n

not want to come here too many times, but when i come here i like to study any issue with the empirical data. so fluff is one thing, but we need to go and find out exactly what we have done in a given time linked to traffic signals, and what we have not done and maybe by putting other types of signals, and i say that because on my trips to australia, australia is pretty big. you see things, and when you see things, you want those things to happen in our great city. so what i am saying plainly is this, while the impending very expensive traffic signals that take a lot of time to get the permits and so on, in the interim it is good to contact our senior citizens. we have a large population of senior citizens. it is good to contact schools and asked how children and their parents, the difficulties they have on san jose avenue, san bruno ave, which one of you supervisors know what happens there. something like putting uthis there will save many lives. so with this type of deliberation is giving to you about the flight in technology which takes years and years to be put in practice, we need to kn

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whatever you think has been the most critical, especially data, empirical data or evidence, what have like you've had that in place when you've been delivering these reforms or not? we'd be interested in hearing about that. but let's turn to someone over here, please. >> bill sample, arkansas senate. one of the projects that i have taken on is that many years ago, the legislature granted some of the municipal governments that had fire plans that were under water to go into a state-defined contribution plan. and so every year on this closed plans, these cities, they're pay as you go. and they had no way to finance that to actually get away from it where they could pay off their debt and go on about their business. i thought that it would be good if i could pass legislation to allow them to bond that debt so that they could get away from pay as you go and get that debt taken away so that they could move on. but i found out that it would take a constitution minimum to do that. and we've got 25 cities that range from just a few million dollars to many million. my city has a $35 million de

i'm a research fellow and an empirical policy analysis in the center for data analysis at the heritage foundation. i thank chairman whitehouse, ranking member kyl and the rest of the committee for the opportunity to testify on drug and veteran treatment courts. the views i expressed in my testimony are my own and should not be construed of representing any official position of the heritage foundation. my testimony will focus on three points. first, out of control spending and surging public debt threatening our nation's stability, increased federal spending on state and local courts should not be a priority. by the end of this fiscal year, the congressional budget office warns that the federal debt will reach roughly 70% of gross domestic product. this will be the highest percentage since shortly after world war ii. this is hardly a good time for congress to increase funding a grant program that subsidize the routine criminal justice operations of state and local governments. instead, congress should consider reforming the drug court discretionary grant program to focus entirely on rei

. >> and he says this in his 2002 paper about the empirical evidence that shows what the governor said, by the way, backed up by much -- by real dataountability. people will be forced to make decisions also economically, we're removing wealth from one sector of the economy to pay for another. that's bad in the aggregate of the economy of not only the state but of the nation. so will he become the president's man or focus on real economic solutions? that's the challenge for alan krueger. >> preceding that, you'll have a big economic speech from john instant hot spots, and powerful devices like the motorola photon 4g. so let's all keep asking the big what ifs. sprint business specialists can help you find the answers. sprint. america's favorite 4g network. trouble hearing on the phone? visit sprintrelay.com. my subaru saved my life. i won't ever forget that. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >> now some news by the numbers. first, 18,200 bucks. that's how much it costs parents in washington, d.c. for daycare each year. you got to be kidding me. that is more expensive than a year of public college in some instances. next, $578

data. >> final question, ms. lees. >> the studies that find the public-sector workers are not overpaid, are they careful empirical studies? what do they take into account? >> to compare levels of education, age, qualification, levels of responsibility. the studies that show overcompensation compare fire chiefs to mcdonald's employees and it's simply not a meaningful comparison. >> thank you. no further questions. >> mr. moore, your witness. >> thank you, your honor. professor shumaker, let me get the facts straight. you are a professor of history and legal studies, is that correct? at the university of wisconsin madison? >> that's correct. >> does that make you about the most liberal person in america? [laughter] is there someone more liberal than a person on the campus in a liberal arts school? let me ask you -- >> it's actually not a liberal arts college. do not let me ask you about the region disgrace of what happened in madison this past winter. we dare to observe the goings-on? >> yes. >> let me ask you this question. according to news reports that are credible, their schools throughout the state of wisconsin, espec

data. >> what is the difference between -- >> questions, ms. lee. >> the studies that find public sector workers are not overpaid, are they empirical studies and whatthey take into account? >> comparing levels of education, age, qualifications of the job, levels of responsibility, the studies showing overcompensation compare fire chiefs to mcdonalds employee, and it's not a meaningful comparison. >> okay, no further questions. >> mr. moore, your acquaintance. >> thank you, your honor. let me get the facts straight about your background. you are a professor of history and legal studies; is that correct? at the university of wisconsin madison? >> that's correct. >> does that make you about the most liberal person in america? [laughter] is there someone more liberal than a person on the campus in the liberal arts school and let me ask you about -- >> this is not a liberal arts college. >> let me ask youth about the outrage in wisconsin this winter. did you observe the goings on in that time? >> yes. >> let me ask you this question, according to news reports that are very credible, there were schools throughout the state of wisconsin especially in milw

data as scanty as our current records makes it appear? >> i think -- i think -- i think there's a big problem with a lack of empirical study of the employment of eminent domain. certainly, as you say in the last two decades or so, done to rigorous social science standards. we really don't know very much about the incidents and who's affected by it. and so i think that would be an enormous benefit. and i think something that's agreed across the political spectrum that a better understanding of what actually occurs would be helpful. the study referred to in terms of the victims and whatnot that's in there, really doesn't look at who's affected. it just looks at the census tracks in which eminent domain is used and that just doesn't tell you very much. and we could use -- we could all understand this better. >> thank you. please, everyone, join me in thanking or panelists. [applause] >> i think we had a very thoughtful and thought provoking discussion this morning. i just want everyone to know who's listening here today that we're going to have the record remain open until september 10th for any public comments. those public comments can be ma

empirical research we've done to understand terrorist trends. speaking first will be dave mull haas send. is one of our -- mule haas senl. he will look at data trends taxing in the united states but really globally against u.s. targets here and worldwide really over the 40 year period culminating in 2009. jessica zuckerman who is an analyst in the allison center for foreign policy studies will talk about the work we've done to track terrorist attacks aimed at the united states since 9/11. what i think i do after they talk and i will come back and talk a bit more about the alternative counterterrorism strategy we've laid out and why we think it is so important. we'll go dave and jess. >> thanks, jim. i thank everybody watching on the internet or c-span. we're at the 10th anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks approaching americans will be thinking about terrorism and its consequences while 9/11 was the most significant terrorist attack against the united states there's been many other terrorist attacks against our nation and against other nations of the world. today i will present the findings of a heritage foundation for center

data as scanty as our current records makes it appear? >> i think -- i think -- i think there's a big problem with a lack of empirical study of the employment of eminent domain. certainly, as you say in the last two decades or so, done to rigorous social science standards. we really don't know very much about the incidents and who's affected by it. and so i think that would be an enormous benefit. and i think something that's agreed across the political spectrum that a better understanding of what actually occurs would be helpful. the study referred to in terms of the victims and whatnot that's in there, really doesn't look at who's affected. it just looks at the census tracks in which eminent domain is used and that just doesn't tell you very much. and we could use -- we could all understand this better. >> thank you. please, everyone, join me in thanking or panelists. [applause] >> i think we had a very thoughtful and thought provoking discussion this morning. i just want everyone to know who's listening here today that we're going to have the record remain open until september 10th for any public comments. those public comments can be ma