with the help of supervisor james kim's aid, we were able to set up a meeting.within the last week we met twice. as frustrating as this was, we were able to address our concerns, the most important being the safety of our children and marshall school. and also its surrounding

with the help of supervisor james kim's aid, we were able to set up a meeting.within the last week we met twice. as frustrating as this was, we were able to address our concerns, the most important being the safety of our children and marshall school. and also its surrounding neighbors. marshall are the first to implement this sfmta traffic-calming project, which is to reduce auto traffic and make it safer to walk for pedestrians. the school has also implemented the safe routes to school plan and has been working with all of san francisco government departments. with all that said, marshall elementary school's main request is that the garage be relocated to south van ness avenue as not to add more traffic to the school. and keeping the garage off of 15th street -- keeping it on 15th street, i'm sorry, would be counteractive to the home zone project and the safe routes to school plans. finally, in our last meeting just yesterday, we found out that the developer is in agreement with us to a have the garage relocated to south van ness. so as a voice of marshall ele

joining us, assistant editorial page he had corps james freeman and mary o'grady and kim strassel.ary, those candidates piled on herman cain and everybody opposed it, but art laffer, the economist supported it. who is right? >> first of all, i think that herman cain obviously got attack because he's spiking in the polls and people are worried about him and this is the cornerstone of his campaign right now. it has a lot of good spiritual initiatives, in other words, it's, you know, it raises the issue of how complicated the tax code is. it's attempts to simplify it, broaden the base and those are all good things. >> people would help economically? >> the problem with this code, this idea, i think, even though it says that it uncomplicates the code, look at the big debate how complicated it is. nobody seems to know exactly what it is. you have a corporate income tax where you have -- you pay taxes, but you're not allowed to subtract out wages and it's called a net profits tax, but apparently you pay it even if you don't have a profit. >> paul: elements of value added tax? >> it's too

kim's parents had divorced and now both were remarried. she called her dad in sioux city, iowa, to tell him about her serious live-in boyfriend. >> i told everybody my daughter was marrying jamesond. >> kim was shaken but not stirred by the prospect of keeping vigil in a desolate lighthouse. still, she told her dad, the money was good. $170,000 a year. he was skeptical. >> i said, i may be a farm boy from iowa that's got stupid tattooed on his forehead, but they don't pay anybody thousands of dollars to turn a light on in a lighthouse. i said, do i have stupid tattooed up here? >> but after he happened to see a documentary about russian submarines and talked with his daughter on the phone, he came around. >> hey, i'm kind of proud of you. i never had a spy in the family. >> oh, shush. >> kim thought it quite natural when robert told her she would have to go through some strenuous training. first of all, forget about being called kim adams. she'd be given a new identity at spy school, assuming british authorities didn't uncover any skeletons in in a rigorous background check. kim was about to be married to a spy and the british secret services that employed him. so the couple s

the murder of an elderly caretaker, police make an arrest in the case. >> james johnson is charged in the death of milton hill. kim dacey has details on his arrest. >> police arrested james johnson yesterday after they say the teen con fessed to killing milton hill -- confessed to killing milton hill. 70-year-old milton hill was a happy, smiling caring man. >> i think he was in his 70's. you would have thought he was in his 40's. active, strong. >> he was parking his scooter in the back yard of his home on -- in july when teenager james johnson shot him twice in the chest. johnson and two other men struggled with hill before the shooting and then took off with his shooter. investigators say johnson confessed to the murder after being brought in twice for questioning. ark churchill there was like a second home. >> he took out the trash. he helped the ladies bring the food in for the church depin dinners. you miss that kind of person. he did all of that with a smile on his face. >> a playground down the streach will be named in milton's honor. preacher james carter said sunday's sermon will include prayers for both

we're back with dan henninger and james freeman and join the panel, washington columnist kim strassel. so, the vote that had been taken in the senate on the merits of the bill would not even had 50 votes as a majority because four democrats said they would vote against it, so-- >> actually five. >> five, okay, what does it say about the popularity of the president's proposal? >> well, the bill failed, but it was always going to fail. i mean, this is the point. as the president put forward legislation, 90% of which is the same keynesian stimulus that got us 9% unemployment paid with for high taxes, the republicans were never going to go for it and he was putting it out there to make a point and again, as you said. even harry reid, the senate majority lead are had to spend the week twisting arms to get enough democrats to not lose face, and have 50 votes to-- but they didn't get enough to proce proceed. so this was something neither side likes and was never going to go anywhere. >> dan, what does it tell you about what the president's strategy is, if they knew this was going to fail and

. >> james johnson who was 17 at the time of the murder is charged in the death of milton hill and the theft of his scooter. kim dacey is live at police head quarters with that story. >> police arrested 18-year-old james johnson on wednesday after they say he confessed to killing milton hill outside of his east baltimore home last year. >> 70-year-old milton hill was a happy, smiling caring man full of life. >> i think he was in his 70's, but you would have thought he was in his 40's. >> he was parking his bee loved scooter -- beloved scooter in the garage of his home when police say james johnson shot him twice in the chest. according to documents, johnson and two other men struggled with hill before the shooting and then took off with the scooter. police say johnson confessed to the murder after being draut -- brought in twice for questioning. johnson spent much of his time as church caretaker. >> he took out the trash. he helped the ladies bring the food in for the church dinners. he did all that with a smile on his face. >> once reconstructed, a playground from the church will be renamed in hill's honor. >>

the republican state central committee, shelley adkins, david fisher, drew, jeremiah johnson, kim, emily, jamesls, at john ortega, steve, thank you for your service to the republican party. [applause] we want to recognize the chairs of the republican county central committees. greg, laura, glenna, terise, bob anderson, randy horn, irene, kevin, jeff, corey adams, and dean fisher. thank you for your service to the republican party of iowa. [applause] we want to recognize the members of the iowa house. davis, julian, pat, chris, eric, kevin, glen massey, kim pearson, don, henry, jsoason schultz, and ralph. thank you for representing us. [applause] we want to recognize to members of the iowa senate, jerry and pat. thank you for representing us in the iowa senate. [applause] we want to recognize the secretary of agriculture, bill. thank you for your service. we want to recognize the state auditor, david. thank you for your service. [applause] we want to recognize the secretary of state, matt schulz . thank you for your service. we want to recognize congressman tom lee thumb. thank you for your serv

kim: where do your children go to school now? >> my children have attended and currently attend buena vista, james lick, hoover, and san francisco school of art. i have two children who have gone through different phases. they also attended school for six years in massachusetts, when they were debating about bilingual education. so i have experienced local and statewide political debate over public education and immigrant rights in education in different places. that was very important for me. supervisor kim: do you have priorities on the immigrants' rights commission that he would like to work on or address as a commissioner? what's one of my priorities is public education and immigrant parents integration into governance. in my daughter's school, i have seen the difference between school better majority immigrant and majority not immigrant in terms of whose voices are at the table when decisions get made and how that plays out in terms of resource allocation to different schools, even when everybody is working very honestly to be as fair as possible. another area of interest i have is in women's rights, immigrant women's right