our local folks have to be at community events and bringing local news and local content and stuff that is relevant to peoples' lives. they have done it for decades and it's great to see that resurgence and to be a part of it. it's a great time for broadcasters in america right now. mr. cramer: if the gentleman from texas would engage me for just a minute. i would ask you you about -- you raise an important point that i hadn't thought about it that is sort of natural, if you are going to be a good local broadcaster you have to be a good citizen. mr. farenthold: you have got to say yes to the folks that come in and say, could you give us a public service announcement for our cancer walk, could you give us a public service announcement for whatever event. the community bulletin boards that you used to hear are coming back, and that's something xm or satellite providers just can't do. sure they are getting the technology to localize some of the ads by downloading them into your devices, but not like the local broadcaster who is a part of the community. mr. cramer: you raised very important

other locals were afraid to.even just launching a british officer who was on parole, that could tar you with loyal listener. -- loyalists. the fed answer your question? -- does that answer your question? ok. thank you very much. [applause] >> here are some of our feature programs for this weekend on the c-span networks. on c-span2's booktv tonight at

authority local control if what you're saying is you want local control we have that this is why this industry is pushing this so much who want to elevate the status of buses to school buses you may building that but i believe we should be very clear we're talking about two type of types of services here here. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, ma'am vice chair so i think it is important to be clear about the current state of the law there's the one about whether state law allows for example mta or other transit operators to enter into the agreements with a private employer the mta says it has that authority and as you recall when we handled the ceqa appeal when we heard the ceqa appeal on the pilot program the opts modest the argument that mta was ironics wrong and we don't have the authority to enter into that with shuttle drivers there were members of the board of supervisors that expressed agreement it was illegal to enter into that i've not spoken to the author of this legislation i can't speak for him in terms of his motivation, in fact, there's a law pevend that is illegal for

authority local control if what you're saying is you want local control we have that this is why this industry is pushing this so much who want to elevate the status of buses to school buses you may building that but i believe we should be very clear we're talking about two type of types of services here here. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, ma'am vice chair so i think it is important to be clear about the current state of the law there's the one about whether state law allows for example mta or other transit operators to enter into the agreements with a private employer the mta says it has that authority and

local control matters. this instant this clarifies that local control and locally negotiated collective bargaining agreements are not superseded, are not superseded by bureaucrats here in washington, d.c. and mr. speaker, i'd like to now take this time, actually may i inquire how much time i have remaining? the chair: the gentleman has 2 1/4 minutes remaining. mr. davis: i i'd like to at this time reck nizz my good friend and colleague from the great state of illinois to speak for two minutes, mr. bost. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. bost: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise in support of this amendment and urge its adoption. the amendment simply states that nothing in the bill shall interfere with state and local collective bargaining laws. this amendment is about federal respect of state and local laws. when it comes to education, i'm a firm believe for the local control, and everodth has knmeed respect sterheears state knows that to be a fact. for too long, the federal

and local communities so we have andre that tweets in, a moratorium on #fracking until and unless it is safe and healthy. they can do business, and then snarl the new transformer, says force the #to drink the contaminated water until they clean it up. i am pretty sure they won't do that. is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at extremely high pressure to fracture shale rock. the definition of what it is, is probably the only thing that opposing sides in this debate agree on. >> the clash centers on the safety both to public health. >> not known for frequent seismic disruption to illnesses some people living in fracking communities attribute to water contaminated by the process. but, there are plenty of advocate whose site jobs energy independents, and cleaner fuel, not to mention the billions in profits. whatever your position the likelihood that fracking is going away doesn't seem to be in the short term, so there is a way to move it into the future that is better for you the planet and for corporations? joining us to discuss this on skype. she is one of the

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first off, is a resolution regarding the local hire ordinance and keeping our local hire percentage policy at 30 percent over the next couple of months we have seen over the past several years a huge in -- increase in development and construction in san francisco. we can see cranes allover the cities and many of those getting jobs and bringing workers from outside of san francisco which which is great and we also want to make sure we are maximizing the slots for local hire policy. right now it's based on public works projects that are publically funded. buildings like our new emergency safety building, some of our street work, public utilities commission work, paid for by public dollars and maximize workers from san francisco who receive jobs. up to 30 percent currently. last year we expanded the local higher policy to include private development on public land and so now we are seeing there are many more opportunities that our local residents invoice getting jobs in construction. we are looking at still collecting information where we have a percentage that might be difficult to achieve.

hire in the planning commission mission as we can finally the family support of the local community and maintain a script program they donate to local charity and support the hate street fair and are looking forward to supporting the main stage near the shop and goes down 17th with that i wanted to show a few renderings if i could have the overhead briefly this is just a rendering looking at the proposed market entrance an harrison street the market will energy gist and activate that corner which right now is just a basically pdr type of building with really no activity on the street the awnings and the product benefits things like that will be perpetrate once we build the market out here's in the rendering looking at down harrison alter ways and physical examination just a closer up i'll be happy to answer any questions and the architect and family are here and the owner of the property is here thank you very much. >> thank you. >> open this up to public comment if there's any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner moore >> i believe the store is a perf

a local non-profit teamed up with a top-rated chef to give students at a local school fresh, organic lunches.that are made from scratch. teens turning green raised money to cover the extra costs of the program and the executive chef of sausalito's cavallo point lodge uses his connections with local farmers to keep it affordable. the executive director of teens turning green says they are seeing positve results from the kids eating right. a local non-profit. and a top- rated chef. have teamed up to make sure students at one local school are getting fresh organic lunches made from scratch. remember me? yeah she remembers me" it was happy reunion between griselda bautista and this pitbull here at the oakland animal services center. the two met the day before under very dangerous circumstances as she was entering the 66th avenue on-ramp to interstate 880 "she was walking into death and maybe would have taken a couple of humans with her because you never know how people react to something on the freeway when they see something that's not supposed to be there" she says the fact that it was

workers and local union workers and local communities of opportunity and community of color that need work. the way we do that is to do the one thing the enernex report was not able to do because the data isn't there yet. we need to set the rates first and get to the process of figuring out the behind the meter local distributed generation assets that we can build because that's not clarified. if we figure that stuff out. putting solar panels and efficiency, that will bring the 9920 jobs and probably upwards of 12,000 jobs if we flush out -- putting it on local roof tops. it's crucial we take some of the money and staff on both sides to make sure we flush out behind the meter components and efficiency components because they are not cooked yet. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> public speaker: hi, jed. i think it's very clear that none of us would be having this meeting today if the mou had not been in effect last year and given all the discussion today it's very clear that there is tons of work that needs to go on. i hope this would be a very >> david. sierra club. we want to de

and we know the importance of those grants to state and local law enforcement. just for example when i was in phoenix a couple of weeks ago to inspect the security at the super bowl i met with state and local law enforcement and it was pointed out to me that all the communications equipment, all of the surveillance was funded by my department. as long as we are on the cr we are unable to do these very important things for homeland security. so we need a fully funded department of homeland security, especially in these challenging times. .. income, david axelrod, advisedder in the obama white house. in his new book he writes about his 40-year career working in politics and government. david axelrod sat down with an interview with david frump. this i

local regions contain opportunities. will strongly encourage support for young people as they take on their challenges. we will eliminate the practice of resting on personal guarantees, which means if you fail once, you lose everything. we will see that we eliminate this practice. in government procurement, we will give precedence to companies that have been in business for less than 10 years and increase opportunities for some to pursue new business. further, we will support him when he said fine opportunities in local regions. tax support will be provided to companies to locate their headquarters to these regions and expand investment and employment. we will provide support for the commercialization of hometown specialty goods. and we will also help them in the development of their markets. regional areas will play the leading role in growth. in the past two years, the number of tourists visiting japan increased by 5 million and surpassed 13 million, a new record. we will aim for further increases by relaxing visa requ

control it clarifies that we have local control that we as a localist enter into an agreement for the shurltsd to be able to use muni bus stops under appropriate circumstances and in fact that's what we're doing with the program i understand people want the buses to go away there are a lot of neighbors that get to work using the buses inside and outside the city it is appropriate to go back to a watch position. >> thank you very much supervisor christensen. >> get the milk on i want to clarify my understanding which is as supervisor wiener said we're not debating whether or not shuttles should be there but where the discussion should take place it belongs at the local level the clarity is welcome if all making things easier so i welcome the clarification and i'm sure we'll continue to have the discussion about the impact. >> supervisor campos. >> since we're talking about clarify let's be clear about what we're doing there's a stronger argument it does what the bill is doing what this is and behind the political driving force a tech exultant that want to expand its reach in the state

gene was not able to stay for local 21 we have representing u a 73 emily two minutes please. hello, i'm natalie he like any shirt (laughter) i'm the panhandle at dr. melina uncapher martin luther king middle school him here as the vice president of the you think united administrator we're asking you support the hard work off our labor relations and mr. carr do that will move our unit members closer to a competitive salaries we'll be bringing into the city not only the vision for the students and the vision who work for those in the city thank you so much hopefully for this positive obsolete e vote and voep e hope you have a wonderful evening thank you very much. >> thank you very much seeing no other speakers comments from the board? commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell >> i want to thank everyone for the harrowed work into the new york city they're changing and sir, your doing good thank you. >> (laughter). >> i just want to say i'm so pleased we offer pay increases to our parishes it is well deserved and we've come through some tough tough times together i too want to recognize m

their second experiment in september was to spray salmonella on salad bars in ten local restaurants.h worked, contaminating over 700 residents. just before election day, the rajneeshis made plans to contaminate the city's water supply. apparently, they were unsuccessful. >> there was evidence that someone had gotten to the reservoir for the city of dalles. and had gotten into it. but no evidence that anybody was contaminated. >> all of the rajneeshi candidates lost in the november elections. armed with the forensic biological evidence, sheela and puja were extradited from europe and charged with tampering with consumer products. they both pled guilty, served less than three years in federal prison, were released and fled to switzerland before state charges could be filed. >> last we knew, sheela was in europe running the equivalent of a nursing home. which is sort of chilling to think about. turning grandma over to sheela in her final days. >> there was no proof rajneesh himself ever knew anything about the salmonella plot. he pleaded guilty to immigration violations, was deported an

local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 open that. >> wow. >> have you taken up anything unique or odd here. >> i've picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates there's a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. >> now this is a given right there. >> i'm curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities you've put together not only of san francisco food in san francisco but food across the bay area. >> this type of market with the local savors the high-end products is great. >> i know people can't believe they're in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i don't have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. >> how long has this been operating in san francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. >> we have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. >> so let's talk sandwiches. >> uh-huh. >> can you tell m

the family told us that as they were talking to her they heard a local policeman tell her to turn off her cell phone. since damaris went missing no one has been prosecuted for her disappearance, leaving juana and the family to continue searching by themselves. this is the case across mexico families left waiting...not knowing if their loved ones are alive...or if they're dead. kidnappings are a source of income for cartels it's a way for them to extort civilians - but also to force people to work for them. with little help from officials, families of the disappeared across mexico have organized networks to support each other and try and help advance each other's cases. with so few meaningful investigations one of the most important questions - why was this person taken - is rarely, if ever, answered. federico mastrogiovanni is a journalist who's been researching the issue of disappearances over the past few years. >> why do you think there are so few investigations around disappearances here in mexico? >> watch more "faultlines" on demand or visit aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> you know

it's sourced locally from their local geyser project. their feed in tariff called pro fit and net energy metering are under way. they have saved their customers well over $6 million in 5 months of operation and that was through their commercial roll out. they have completed the rest of the county and the rest of the residential role out. the last thing i will say and i want to go back to, somebody mentioned about timing. it sounds to me like there is real momentum to get going and certainly we would encourage you to do that for a couple reasons market conditions are very favorable now. natural gas is low which provides a balancing effect to whatever are renewable power you might have in your portfolio. the resources 2020 and there is excess power to be had. last thing, the city is able to file a binding notice of intent with the c puc which can be add advantagesous because you are allowed to event your exit fees as previous year. you can look at your scenario in timeline and given the capacity that you have at sf puc you have really gone

the whole theme of this bill is that we trust teachers, parents, local education officials and our local taxpayers much more than we would ever trust a federal bureaucrat. i find it funny that the other side, those that are against this bill actually cited the department of education in arguing what a bad bill this is. imagine a federal bureaucrat actually arguing to devolve its power back to its rightful owners. of course they're going to be for the status quo. they benefit from the status quo. the students do not. second, the bill empowers parents and education leaders with choice, transparency and flexibility. it ensures parents continue to have the information they need to hold schools accountable and helps more families escape underperforming schools by expanding alternative education options such as quality charter schools. it also provides states the flexibility to develop their own systems for addressing school performance and the autonomy to use federal funds in the most efficient way. and this bill respects, mr. chair, that it's the people's property, it's their tax dollars. we

i'm veronica johnson and we're going to show you some of the more interesting local stories making news this week. among them it's been years in the making but the d.c. street car line could see some big changes before it even opens. why the project may shrink. >>> plus ever curious about how certain streets get their names? we did a little bit of digging into the history books to help you meet your street. >>> and planes falling right off the map. we've seen it before but one local company is working on a way to prooefbt itevent it from happening again. >>> we begin with a local effort to keepsake red places and the neighborhood surrounding them crime-free. think neighborhood watch but for your place of worship. northern virginia reporter david culver explains the new initiative by fairfax county police. >> it really was heart-breaking. >> reporter: that's how he felt when the space he prays in was marred by vandals. this was 2011. just about every custom window shattered. in three years' time its beauty restored with some new additions. >> we record a 24-hour video coverage. these are

empower innovation at the local level. we took a $3.6 billion budget deficit and turned it into a surplus and balanced the budget each of the years i have been in office, and we will do it again this time around and the budget tuesday will finish off what balanced budget that is financially sound as well. and along the way our rainy day fund is 165 times bigger than when we took office. the pension and retirement system the only one fully funded in the country, and we made the tough decisions and our state is that much better off because of it. in washington, a matter of setting priorities. part is for me whether it is the local government, fire and police or here in the federal government has got to be protection. safety and security of the american citizens and of those freedom loving people around the world who love the values. you can be responsible in doing that and make responsible reasonable expectations of how to streamline the way that we provide that security through the department of defense and other mechanisms

here we have william powell -- a local farmer.e is relating his confrontation with george, the day after newsom disappeared. "i asked his negro boy george where he thought he was. he stated that he did not believe it was worthwhile to hunt for him anywhere except close around the house. for he had reasons to believe he was not far off. i told him he had better go and show us the old man, if he knew where he was. he stated he believed the last walking yet done was along this path." that is the path between celia's cabin and the house. "i believed that he had been destroyed -- or killed -- in the cabin." here we have powell. george has not given a statement at this point of the preceding. we hear his words filtered through powell's ideas, but we have the suggestion that what? that george has somehow, if not implicated celia, he has certainly implicated celia's cabin, right? as the site of newsom's demise and as we know, this will lead powell and others to more seriously scrutinize the area around celia's cabin, but more to more clos

our metropolitan policy program really works local funds. at this time there are challenging discussions here in washington. we think that the city is in the states and the metro areas are doing the hard work. they're creating the innovation that eventually will make a difference here washington. right now, the ballgame sees to be outside the subway. host: trish in seattle. caller: good morning. i would just like to comment on chris's idea of privatization on developing the infrastructure. here in seattle, we have the project going on a mercer street. it is not going to be called the leader boulevard because that is the access from the i-5 talents at amazon and microsoft and all the other burgeoning tech developments. biotech is down there and as well. i thought it was interesting that why as taxpayers are we paying for these roadways in traffic disruption to get all those people to amazon and microsoft, etc.? what am i getting out of that? host: i thought you were done. sorry about that. guest: the caller seems to be complaining that the lo

covering virginia, maryland and all of that, politics in the nation's capital since is kind of local for you too. it seems like if you didn't own that space or coown it with some other folks, it would be a real failing. how do you think you've done in terms of covering national politics, covering the capitol, it is local for you. >> i think we've done well, i think we have a tremendous political staff at the post, i think they've done a lot of the defining stories in the nation's capital, the n.s.a. is an example of that. the single biggest political -- one of the biggest political topics in the country over the last year has been the issue of security versus privacy as a result of the n.s.a. disclosures. >> yep. >> and we have been at the front of that story. we've been driving that story. there's only one other media organization that has been in there. >> and that would be the guardian. >> that would be the guardian. as you said earlier, competition is now greater, more people to elbow out of the way, some of that is the folks you've been competing with institutionally, not maybe

rice and vegetables have been produced and consumed locally.he mighty river winds through the indochina peninsula. the friendship bridge is greatly increased trade between laos and neighboring countries. the amount of imported goods from thailand is growing yearly and the community is set to be launched in 2015. it will eliminate customs tariffs within the community and allow affordable high quality produce from neighboring countries to hit local markets. it's expected to have a huge impact onning agriculture in la. organic agriculture is seen as the key to boosting the doe domestic market. laos is suited to sustain organic agriculture. it has a long standing tradition of natural cultivation. many farmers were too poor to buy fertilizers. much of the land remained uncontaminated by agrochemicals. the government turned that situation into an advantage. it began produce as organic to build a viable export industry. it lacked the know-how to establish standards. the government sought financial and technical assistance from an ngo in swits land. th

central and local governments make up for the remaining 50%. now the amount taken from employees health insurance that went to the elderly rose to about $47 billion for fiscal 2014. that's up about $1.6 billion. now these figures are expected to rise. the health ministry plans to review a set of benefits from low income elderly. currently that group is eligible for cuts on their premiums by up to 90%. >> the international monitoring fund has a new director. he previously worked at japan's ministry of finance. his new appointment makes him the third highest ranking official at the imf. the managing director says she welcomes the return of him to the fund where he also worked for two years from 2010. he was an advisor to prime minister abe since last year. before that he served in several posts at the finance ministry. he fills the position to be vacated by him whose five year term ends this month. he gets to work march 2nd. >> people who run guest houses across japan are seeing more and more foreign tourists come to their cities. they're competi

local union jobs. we need the commission to set rates in place with clear timelines. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> public speaker: hello, i'm a sierra club member and an advocate of community choice aggregation of 2006. in 2007 we were promised a program would be up and running. that didn't happen demand -- and in 2012 the board voted for this and now we are waiting again. i feel like a kid on a trip, are we there yet? except this is critically important and the trip is fairly long. we are seeing climate changes globally and globally. please stop dragging your feet. set the rates now. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. i going to call more cards. >> can you please lineup. >> public speaker: hi, my name is ramsey springel. student at u c berkeley. i can't imagine an issue bigger than this one. even as education, i graduate this year and the skyrocketing cost that is going to be a burden onto my students. i don't see that as an important issue as when we look at the environment when we say 50

with a lot more development and redevelopment opportunity over the next 15 years and then we have a local presence we own and manage the village and we own the north gate mall and own and manage the plazas in wall nutd creek if you've visited it is quite torn up we've torn up half the shops and parking and realty it a $300 million reinvestment and outdoor that will be offering more to the local community and the reason we're here we have developing a strong presence in the fashion out let sector we have a project in niagara falls we're competing an capitalization the nigger great new york we've completely a year and a half ago a project adjacent to the airport it is breaking the mold what you think of an outlet center that's the kind of project that we're proud of and proud to be working on i'll closing close there again to say it's our pleasure to have this introduction with the commission and we look forward to working with staff and our partner lamar what will be a great project at the incourse of conduct candle stick park. >> thank you gary it good afternoon commissioners thanks for t