. >> i'd like to introduce jeff buckley i think is here to put this is in the context of the mayors issue of affordable housing sxhukd the middle-income portion. >> i'm jeff senior advisors to marry mayor ed lee i wanted to speak first inform irate what everyone has said we support the breed amendment in its original and amended form make sure the public understands the intention of the author and the mayor to remove rent-controlled units from this program so whatever you need in addition to that we'll be happy to hear i wanted to speak about the need from the authors point of view the rational why we support this program and where i think some of the policy rational came from this oriented from a housing working group that was looking at how to speed up the affordable housing and how to generate nor middle-income and moderate in case open income housing than the city produces this exist in a market we can acknowledge the single-family home and condos market has advances in praise price far above middle-income can afford without some form of assistance that i will say always a question ho

in reno chris buckley kolo 8 news now. jeff thompson is up next with a complete look at our weekend forecast. announcer: "you're watching kolo 8 news now at 11:00, with noah bond, weather with meteorologist jeff thompson, and sports with josh little. this is kolo 8 news now at 11:00." chief meteorologist jeff thompson has your announcer: "you're watching kolo 8 news now at 11:00, with noah bond, weather with meteorologist jeff thompson, and sports with josh little. this is kolo 8 news now at 11:00." chief meteorologist complete weather now forecast. the next winter storm will move into the sierra early saturday and then slide through the region during the day. while this will not be a strong storm, times, with snow levels on valley floors saturday morning and then again saturday night. valley accumulation will be limited, but a quick inch is possible. sunday will be quiet, with clouds increasing again ahead of another, fairly weak monday system. the strongest storm in this series will move in mid to late week, with mountain sno

let's start off jeff and jay which is the question that we have for the panel. what you think has been the impact of buckley on how campaigns are run in the campaigns leading up to the election? >> this is discussed in the previous panel, the main thing that oakley did that i see how it affects elections is it restrained

buckley, kolo 8 news now. let's turn our attention to the weather and a little something coming our way over the next two days. chief meteorologist jeff thompson-- joins us from the weather center. jeff... winter weather advisory for the sierra, including the tahoe basin, from 4 pm friday through 4 pm saturday. storm totals of 8-14" above 7000' and possible through saturday evening. stormy weather will move back into the region on friday, with precipitation chances increasing friday night and saturday. valley wind and a few rain showers can be expected on friday, with sierra snow showers. friday night, sierra snow will become heavy into saturday. expect road controls and winter driving conditions. valleys will see rain develop and change to snow early saturday, with accumulation most likely above 5000'. expect windy conditions at times area wide. by sunday, skies will start to clear, and benign, chillier weather will settle in through midweek. -jeff tonight: mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. windy, with a south wind 15 to 20 mph increasing to 25 to 30 mph in the evening. winds could gust as high as 45 mph. friday: rain likely, main

so our next panel is the impact of buckley on campaigns and elections. and we're fortunate to have jeff milyo of the university of missouri, professor of economics there, and he received his ph.d. from stanford. his areas of expertise include campaign finance and elections, health policy, and the media. jeff's research has been published in the "american economic review," "american journal of public health," "election law journal" and i won't cite the rest of them because we'll be here for a good long while. interestingly, i think equally interesting that his research has also been widely cited in the nation's leading newspapers because it's very topical. jay goodliffe is associate professor of political science at brigham young university. he's also a research scholar at the center for study and elections, democracy at byu. his research interests include congressional campaigns and elections, not surprisingly, legislative discipline, interest groups, international human rights treaties, and much more. his research utilizes game theory models and ecomometric and his work has been in a n

let's start off, jeff and jay, with just the question we have for the panel. what you think has been the impact of buckley on how campaigns are run in the campaigns leading up to the election? >> well, this was discussed on the previous panel, so the main thing that buckley did that i see how it effects elections is it restrained the contributions that could be made. there was constraints placed on contributions to candidates and parties, but it allowed expenditures to be unlimited. and so what we have is a system that we still have today where there's a lot of money that's interested in that wants to make its voice heard, that wants to express its view. it want to express their view and often need money to express that view. but then there are limits to the ways that money can be expressed to candidates. candidates, they are really, they are having money, it's like taking someone who is thirsty and tell them you can have as much water as you want but you cannot have a teaspoon at a time. so we seek candidates spending a lot of time raising money because they want to have that money to run for the electio