>> on that motion from commissioner peterson to adopt the july 13 minutes -- [roll call vote] fenty, the vote is at 5-0, those minutes are adopted. -- thank you. >> item four, appeal number 10- 108, richard and cher zillman obverses the historic preservation commission. this is for 280 divisadero street, appealing the denial on september 10 -- september 1, 2010, certificate of appropriateness to confront the house at the rear of the subject property to a presidential unit. a public hearing was held on march 9, 2011, and the matter is on for further consideration today. the matter was continued to allow time for the parties to discuss alternate design options, and no additional briefing was allowed. if commissioner peterson, you were absent that that this was first heard. commissioner peterson: yes, but i have watched the video. >> update, thank you. we will hear from the department first. -- ok, thank you. we will hear from the department first. mr. frye. bu >> good afternoon, i am tim fry, on behalf of the planning department. the board requested that the department and the appellat

is reviewing allegations that mayor gray's campaign used suleman brown as a foil against then-mayor fenty. three criminal probes, two council members and the mayor. they're all probes. all three men have done nothing wrong and to date, no one's been indicted. >>> and john, as you mentioned, those are allegations right now and not every probe results in charges. if the u.s. attorney decides that these discrepancies are not criminal, does that mean that brown's off the hook? >> reporter: not necessarily. the board of elects and ethics can hold a hearing in the future and if it accepts the auditor's version, they can impose a civil fine and you're right, the criminal probe is a big thing and that is worse than some finds. the city could get two bites of this. >> lots going on there. thank you, john. >>> in virginia, police are investigating a business accused of selling k-2 spice. investigators served a search warrant at the arapaca tobacco shop and that they ceased 1700 packets of the synthetic marijuana and other drug partner o. march 23rd of this year, it was illegal to possess, sell, or

co-sponsor of the respect for marriage bill had this exchange with a same-sex marriage advocate, tom fentie living with their own biological and/or adopted fathers were generally happier and healthier and did better in school, and were protected from physical and sexual abuse and almost never lived in poverty compared to any children in any other form. the department of health and human health services, and i checked the study out. [ laughter ] and actually, it doesn't say what you said it says. it says that nuclear families, not opposite sex-married families are associated with those positive outcomes. isn't it true, mr. mineri, that a same sex couple who has adopted kids would fall under the definition of a nuclear family in the study that you cite? >> i would think that the study when it cites nuclear families would mean a family headed by a husband and wife. >> it doesn't. [ laughter ] the study defines a nuclear family as one or more children living with two parents who are married to one another and are each biological or adoptive parents to all of the children in the family. and i f

fenty refers to 2,003 changed everything from the civil space perspective. it changed, with came a recognition of the civil human spaceflight program as being fundamentally different than we had fought whereas the committee thought it was more of an operational system that had people in space on the space station and that presence. it was working toward scientific goals and begin the light of columbia people said what are we doing, we are not going anywhere why aren't we fly in something that we have been flying for 25 years, we need to change this paradigm. and i think an accident like that instantly changes the paradigm for the folks watching at. one of the very first actions the bush administration took command this was before 9/11, with regard to the civil space program, was on everybody's favorite program, the space station program, so throughout the clinton administration when the program was finally solidified from the political perspective, by bringing the russians in at the same time, every two years there was a budget overrun or cost growth of mult