we should be a city with public schools that give every student a shot at the future with wraparound services and that also would activity before and after school, a city that rewards teachers with retention bonuses and help with affordable housing, where muni is free for kids who go public school, where we give kids $100 for college savings each year they complete in school. we should be a city that is open, accessible, and responsive to its people and businesses. i will put caseworkers on every merchant corridor in your city to interface with small businesses, respond to their issues. we should be a city where city hall is independent from undue influence. i will reform the ethics commission to make sure your public officials are held accountable. i will crack down on an registered lobbyists. i will open up all the secrecy information so that the people can see who is making the real decisions. we should be a city that makes it affordable to live here, to work here, to raise a family here, a city where we connect people to jobs and job training, a city with a reliable public transit

family who have made a difference of the past years and truly exemplifies this type of employee every city park department would love to have, and all three are retiring. i want to start with joe faulkner. the career that began in 1973, only one year before his father retired from the city in 1974. together they represent over 76 years of continuous family history working with the city. as a kid he picked up golf balls for joey wright. he was accomplished golfer in his own right. he is a two-time men's championship and they are family tournament champions until did you had to leave the golden gate golf course. he was a gardener at lincoln park for 11 years and has taken care of the golden gate park golf course for the past 17 years, keeping it maintained a high level, even though he endured a much publicized scandals last year. his work for the mx tournament 2005 and charles schwab cup in 2010, a pledge of event that it held in san francisco. joe is married to his beautiful wife carol, and their three children. joe is looking forward to retirement planning a little bit more golf and sting

do the city's business but also to visit and find out how our fire department can connect with every city. this is a small token but this is a token deeply felt by our city and i want you to know that i share in your feelings that this is not just the individual firefighters, i also understand that this is a shared sacrifice with the families we are from. we want you to be here when we do this in part what the city's official family but also to let you know that i am grateful to you, the family members, and to the extent that i represent the people of this great city, we are grateful to you and each member, men and women of the fire department, as you do your jobs every day and we know that you put your lives on the line and there is a moment when you don't have a choice and there is no thought in what you have to do. remember that on september 11th this year. since june, i have had other occasions to work and be with the firefighters. we had a chance to be part of the chili cookoff, if you will, raising money. i had a chance to meet the new class of firefighters and welcome them in and s

there was complete denial of the problem. 15 years later, water quality is on the agenda of every city council person in that local city, and that's completely a result of activists forcing the issue, surfrider and other local groups,

every city needs space like that. we realized at our scale, we needed a civic plaza. we thought about bands, but as soon as you put them up on stage, you have these consuming crowds listening to the band. the longer they stood there the more beer bottle they drop on the ground. that did not seem attractive at all. we do not leave a trace after the event. we do not want a stage. if you want your own, build it, which people did. so we turned to copy. it affords you a social place. you can stay there all day, we do not care. we are not doing it to make money. we lose money. we do it for the sake of public interaction. to create a civic environment that led to communal feelings. that seems like an exception to the dogma, but what did emerson say? a speech of consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. >> i was just thinking that. [laughter] going the other direction, as fast as possible, one of the things -- a pattern that has arisen over the years -- a lot of the leading engineers in the technology industry tend to meet with each other at an burning man, recognize kind

there was complete denial of the problem. 15 years later, water quality is on the agenda of every city council person in that local city, and that's completely a result of activists forcing the issue, surfrider and other local groups, saying, "hey, these water quality issues are real and you need to address them." and only until the public sort of creates that will will the politicians respond. narrator: while some cities deal with infrastructure issues, others have concerns about the sustainability of water supplies. allbee: it's not just about the sustainability of the assets, it's about the sustainability of our water resources. parts of this country that thought of themselves as water rich 20, 30 years ago, now are discovering that they really are not water rich, they have source supply issues, they have serious questions about how they're going to accommodate additional growth in their communities. melosi: if we can find alternatives, we can preserve a water supply. conservation of water is a way of generating more water. allbee: we think that a household can actually reduce its w

and in every city, the protesters are using the catch phrase they say explains who they are. >> we are the 99%. >> reporter: they call themselves the 99%. everyone who is not super rich. the republican house leader called them something else. >> i for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying wall street and the other cities across the country. >> reporter: the house minority leader shot back. >> reporter: i didn't hear him say anything when the tea party was out in the capital. >> the protesters continue to voice their demands, shaping their message. >> fight corporate greed and not look at it with anger. >> stay involved in people's health. >> i'm representing all 1600 of us. >> marching because my union hall is shut down. >> reporter: is this the left wing response to the tea party? they're already taking sides. >> some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of americans against americans. >> reporter: the minority house leader says it's not about class warfare. >> it's about fairness. >> now closer to home today marked day 6 for the occupy wall street

we're fighting for clear skies over every city and healthy lungs throughout the country. the american lung association isn't just fighting for air. we're fighting for all the things that make it worth breathing. join us in the fight at fightingforair.org. . >>> it is happening right now, you can see a number of people are relatively gathered at this point. several people are occupied and the city's public health department says worsening conditioning are posing a health problem. >>> according to the press democrat they plan to camp out at city hall which against the law. it is meant to reenergize the movement and they will take whatever steps necessary. >>> he was out of town, she said she authorized the crackdown but left of the timing up to police. she was in washington d.c. where she said she had an important meeting for oakland. when she got back, she saw the violent confrontation between police and protesters. >> i am obviously very saddened, oakland is a very progressive city. >> that is why there is a roll movement, because people don't believe she is truly committ

freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of god's children, black men and white men, jews and gentiles, protestants and catholics, will join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spirit, free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, we are free at last. [ cheering and applause ] >>> president obama tried to push his huge jobs bill through congress by serving it up in one giant serving but republicans won't bite. so now he's offering it again. but this time in what he calls bite-sized pieces. and he's hit the road trying to get the voters on his side. today his special presidential bus made stops in north carolina and tomorrow its off to emporia, virginia. >> we're going to give them another chance to do their job by looking after your jobs. >> president obama said the first bite-size morsel serving to congress is the $35 billion package that would let individual states keep or hire thousands of teachers, police officers and firefighters. those are positions that would o

every month. public and city employees are invited to attend. it is a brief tour, but it is important to become familiar with those functions. the other benefit is i don't want to waste any resources in terms of what our mission is at

i ask you to come up with better resolution than portland, in a way to be an example for every city in the that the states and how to overcome this. if you want to hunt down a terrorist, go after them, but please make sure that we do not interrogate, she million, and denigrate law-abiding americans -- interrogate, denigrate, and humiliate law-abiding americans. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. next speaker, please? >> good evening. my name is rachel roberts, and i am the civil rights coordinator for the council on islamic american relations. i'm here to join these other organizations asking you to exercise the 60-day out clause and coming up with a local resolution for counter- terrorism. our office has heard complaints over the past year alone from more than three dozen muslim americans that and contacted by the fbi and jttf. in none of these cases have charges been filed. our clients have been asked about the ig

over the last ten years there has been a charter school explosion in every city and every state.way of responding to broken education systems. what do you all say about this? >> to me the biggest thing we've gotten out of charter schools, they have elevated the level of conversation for us to be focused on education. >> for the benefit of our viewers, can you say what a charter school is? >> charter schools essentially are -- they are public schools but privately managed. >> publicly funded and privately run? >> absolutely. i think those schools have had a level of autonomy around their curricul curriculum, hiring and firing of teachers and staff that i think has made a great difference in terms of the work they're doing. >> you're in trenton, i remember maybe ten years ago in trenton, there was one major high school. trenton central high school, and then there was a charter school being birthed. now there's more charter schools and one more high school. it seems people are saying the charter school is the way to go. >> we just watch the charter school k to 8. i think if you agai

and in every city the protesters are using the catch phrase they say explains who they are. >> we are the 99%. >> they call themselves the 99%. everyone who is not superrich. the republican house majority leader called them something else. >> i, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mob occupying wall treat and the other cities across the country. >> today on this week, house minority leader nancy pelosi shot back. >> i heard him -- didn't hear him say anything when the tea party was spitting on men's of congress. >> over the weekend protesters are shaping their message across the country. >> fight corporate greed and not look at it with anger. >> i'm mad as hell. >> 'stay involved in people's health. >> all 1600 of us are barely over the poverty line. >> my union hall was shut down. >> is this the left-wing response to the tea party? the politicians are taking sides. >> in this town actually condone the pitting of american against americans. >> to the house minority leader says it's not about class warfare. >> the most den -- enduring american values. >> alan: there's

libyans celebrated the death of moammar gadhafi, waving flags and shooting off fireworks in nearly every citygadhafi was killed yesterday after he was captured alive by interim government fighters the fighters he once called rats. there is graphic video of his final moments. the exact circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear, but it is clear from this video that his captors showed no mercy. dragged from a drainage pipe the wounded gadhafi pleaded for his life. he was shoved and kicked and dragged through the streets. a rebel spokesman said he died when gunfire broke out between gadhafi loyalists and a rebel fighter had a brandish pistol he said he took from the dictator. reporter kitty logan is in the libyan capital with more this morning. kitty, what is the mood in tripoli? >> reporter: it's quiet this morning. that's for for two reasons. one, it's friday, and, two, people were out celebrating very late last night. an absolutely euphoric mood here. certainly no tears shed over the death of colonel gadhafi. this is the result that the people here wanted. they wanted him gone for goo

collapse of western union -- it is basically a company that seemed to own the world and have people in every city monopoly on the technology that looked as though it would last for all time and they never could understand that they were making silent movies when the talk these had been invented. maybe big organizations cannot change. can the post office change enough that >>well, that remains to be seen. at the highest levels, they get it. they understand it. they are very aware. they are trying themselves to dow. -- downsized. if they don't get interference from local communities and the hill they should be able to save quite a few billion dollars by reducing their size. and still be able to deliver pretty decent service. but the question is whether that can filter down through the entire organization and can they deliver? >> i have not heard where if you were running this or if you were personally a large miller or rather than a consultant, what cuts would you accept? i would accept saturday as an individual. what would you accept? >> i like what they're proposing about cutting back on the mail