so at local level, we don't find ourselves in many esoteric democrat-republican debates. it really is about getting somebody a job and they don't care whether a democrat got them a job or a republican got them a job, if you get a job, you're happy about it. >> next question. >> i would just back up to d's and r's. you've run for congress before as an r. any plans to do that again? what are your political thoughts for the future as well? >> i have no intentions of running for anything besides mayor. always leave your job open. i know never to say never. but mayor's the best job there is. and i intend to stick with it. >> i'm in the middle of an election so i'm focused on november, trying to get re-elected. that's the only election on my mind right now. >> i wanted to follow up. you did have this quote in the paper the other day about the federal retreat, the great federal retreat. i think that was the way, maybe you can reprize the quote for us. it was interesting. i was wondering where you put the blame for that? >> again, we know that the federal government has massive d

that's the way we do it at the local level and you really have to take the longer term view. whether it's infrastructure, roads, bridges, helping with construction projects, buildings or schools and the like, again, the federal government can play a significant role in areas all across the country and when you're talking about cuts, you know, it's over on the side that affects cities where most of the cuts are being made. i had find it hard to believe, given the size of the federal government and what they do, that there aren't a couple of other areas that they certainly could be looking at that are legitimate. not, you know, you have people with this eerie, they have all this waste, fraud and abuse. ok, why don't we cut that? we won't find a waste, fraud and abuse line in the budget. but certainly there have to be some efficiencies that can be captured and let those dollars be spent locally. >> it's all about the jobs and i assume the infrastructure jobs have bigger multiplires but as i looked at both of your -- as much as i could find on your stimulus spending that's alread

those are positive changes to journalism, and they are happening at the local level. >> speaking of local, how many here have heard up hatch -- heard of patch.com? interesting. i love my local pact, not because they are here, but i follow it. it tells me what is going on in the schools, and it tells me what is going on down the street. but not many people know about it. i'm wondering why you think that is, or are you targeting certain communities that are covered by patch? >> and can you describe it for those of us that are not familiar with it? >> it is a hub for news and information for local communities, simply put. it goes beyond this, and we can get into that, but that is something it leads with. we hire full-time professional journalist who lives and works locally in that community that it is serving. so it is a uniform platform so the technology is shared, so we can flip the switch, but the editor is really the key to making that all work. for us, for each of those, although it is part of a bigger brand and effort, what matters is how many people within that community know about it

a lot of work traditionally done at the state level will come to the local level. the good news is we have been working as a county. all the partners have been working for quite some time dealing with reentry issues. nevertheless, there is work coming our way and it has to do primarily with the parole in cases that do not involve violence. it looks like they will still come up to our local courts and yet to the district attorney's office. that is a workload that is not anticipated and we do not believe understand what the impact will be. obviously, our current budget does not entertain the impact the realignment may have on our criminal justice system at the local level. continuing to look at the five- year outlook -- we are trying to take cases away from our traditional courts into our neighborhood corp. program. we estimate taking this case to our neighborhood courts will cost about $300 to $400 a case as opposed to $1,500 for the traditional process. we are completing a department wide assessment to find a way to find a department to work more efficiently withou

assistance today is funded through a variety of different programs serve federal and state and local level. charitable foundations, to pay, a nonprofit organizations and because there is so many different revenue sources it is a piecemeal fashion and that has created with some places and not others we have many demands on what you can afford or recruit staff for achieve economies of scale and stakeholders or individuals who may help you raise funds. you may have a commitment to a certain committee and they factor in to where organizations locate but there is evidence in the book and this is true across different areas that high poverty areas tend not too high of access as low poverty areas. in is a combination but it is hard to recruit staff with the highest poverty neighborhoods and frankly a lot of organizations prefer to relocate downtown or the corridors of power were they connect the foundation's and that is important but they have unintended consequences of a harder it is to participate. >> host: what is the solution? >> guest: it is tough to think of solutions oftentimes with mismat

they're funded through a variety of different grants and programs at the state level as well as local levels. they draw revenues from charitable foundation or philanthropies. and because there's so many revenue sources, it's emerged over time in a piecemeal or patchwork fashion, and that's created a setting where you have providers located in some places and not in others. if you're a social service agency, you have many demands on what drives where you can locate, what you can afford, where you can hire or recruit staff, whether you can ame economies of -- achieve economies of scale, you might have a particular commitment to a certain community or area. and all those things factor in to where organizations locate. but in the end there's a lot of evidence in the book, and this is true across three different metro areas that we looked at -- chicago, los angeles, and washington, d.c -- that high poverty areas tend not to have adequate access or as much access to social service programs as lower poverty areas. and i think this is not one reason, a combination. but my sense is that in many commu

local level do you centralize economic solutions that's the way to go so don't there china bring them in have them buy companies that was author and journalist david de graw with that analysis thanks so much. remember the case of oscar grant a twenty two year old unarmed man shot and killed by a cop back in two thousand and nine while laying facedown in an oakland train station well it's a dying protest now take a look at this. through. you're . right oh those protests going on yesterday and today and here is why the cop found guilty on the charge of involuntary manslaughter in grant's death was released he was released after serving just eleven months of his two year sentence now the officer to take you back he admitted to shooting grant he said though that he thought it was his taser gun and as a result he was convicted of a lesser offense than the second degree murder charge the prosecutors were seeking now activists say they see this as a much bigger message a message to people of color that their lives don't mean anything and in this case the cop was white and oscar grant was bla

where you are, they are co-located so that information can be gathered, analyzed, and shared at the local level, and looked at through the prism of all the eyes and ears that state and local law-enforcement possess. second, we have expanded a statewide reporting initiative. it trains state and local law enforcement to recognize behavior's in indicators related to terrorism and other threats, and standardizes how those observations are documented, analyzed, and shared back to the homeland security. and they are shared and then taken and converted into products that can be re-shared throughout the rest of the united states. we're not just talking about intel moving from d.c. to the country. we're not talking about the analytic capacity to bring intelligence from the rest of the country back into washington, d.c. the third aspect of how we are empowering people is the launch of a new national terrorism advisory system, which we just recently did in april. ntas is the replacement for the old color code system. say goodbye to orange. [laughter] we are not using that system anymore. it did not give p

level? >> i don't like local, state or federal level of government mandating anything in our lives and in our families, in our businesses unless it comes to saving lives. but i do understand where mitt romney is going with that. obviously, he is a supporter of the tenth amendment. that's what is missing missing s present administration, any respect for the tenth amendment for states rights. we need to get back to states' rights. on the local level, for instance i opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because i knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in, invite themselveses in a city. that is just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business. we, according to our own priorities, make decisions and mandate and dictate to them. local, state, federal level, it's not good. >> chris: let me move on real quickly. i'm going to invoke lightning round rules on you. quick questions, quick answers. you would seem to be clo

level? >> i don't like local, state or federal levels of government mandating anything, in our lives. our families, in our businesses, unless it comes to saving lives. so, i do understand where mitt romney is going with that. obviously, he's a supporter of the tenth amendment and that is what is missing in this president presents administration, is any respect for the tenths amendment, states' rights and we need to get back to that. on the local level, for instance, i opposed annexing areas, in around our city borders because i knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of a city, well, they would mandate themselves in, and invite themselves into a city, that is one example of on a local level, how dangerous it is for a politician to think they know more than that individual family, that individual business and we according to our own priorities make decisions an mandate and dictate to them, local, stated, federal levels, it is not good. >> chris: let me move on, quickly. i will invoke the lightning round rules, on you, quick question, quick answers. you would seem to be closest p

newspaper to find out if they get down to the people and really work on the local level. that was the importance, he thought, the local press. he could find out if whether the policies they were gone, whether the capital, the white house, the executive branch, congress, got down to the local level in michigan and serve the people. newspapers and the press were very important to him. we need to get on here. i just want to have the judging panel -- we have some of the judging panel here today. i want to thank them for being judges for us. we have two categories, for the presidency and the defense. our defense panel, we have devereaux than most, erik peterson, david olive, karen but be scowcroft, rob holzer, and michael chetniks. we could give them a round of applause. [applause] for the presidency, our fine trusty jim cannon, who is a great public servant himself. teachers this committee and gigot he chairs this committee and -- he chairs this committee and these awards and he is for the presidency awards -- we have john mcconnell, prof. kenyon also come up professor mark

. >> governor brown does have a plan to move state prisoners down to the locall levell but the problem is there is no mon tow do that. >> we are oust time and room and we have to get it down . it is an overcrowded . 10,000. in response the state outlined the plan. paying on it. and it is a move that republicans refused to use. if it is not implemented we are in trouble. the critics say they had decades to fix the overcrowding problem. with another plan that said we are hopeful for the funding they will say get real denied. and is the court order to order? >> it will ship them to jail. the plan is dangerous. many county jails are overcrounded and they will have to release their own inmates early. they rely heavly on dumping inmates in your communities and putting our citizens at risk. >> they talked about supporting prisoners and illegal immigrants. the brown administration is not willing to go yet. thank you and paychecks of leaders are lighter. they approved a recommendation to cut the salary and benefits for themselves. the mayor's salary is down to $114,000 . council members pay 90,

they are capable people qualified to do the job and you see a dramatic change at the local level where most afghans have the most direct experience with their government. that is the good news. when you move to the national level with ministries to provide basic services and accountable justice system, and dealing with corruption, this is a work in progress. many challenges we have to work through but we have partnerships with each of the major afghan ministries working with them and to go after correction. with your question of sustainability, we share your concern, the president shares your concern. we're currently working with the afghans to scrubs of long-term model has the insurgency comes down and what is the needs of the force to be how can we bring down the cost to do things in a way that gets us into a more sustainable range in terms of what they afghans together can support over time? >> thank you mr. thornberry. >> admiral, you said in your statement there is the commander has inflexibility inside the deadlines which tells me there is no flexibility to extend the deadline. a

who we have come to know, cherish, lived with, talked out a lot of issues, at the state level, local level, and of course, the treasury -- a treasure island community development. chris, thank you for being here. [applause] have i gotten everything else? i know we have other speakers here. we have a number of the board of supervisors that i want to thank each and everyone of them. we have jane kim, carmen chu is here, scott wiener, mark farrell. they are here as well. there may be more coming. i want to give a special thanks. i know not only gain, but her staff, has worked hard to spend the time necessary to explain to everybody but this is all about, and to also make sure the commitments that were made by the city family are actually carried out. whether they are affordable housing or transportation, or open space, parking challenges that we will face, or whether they are simple communications of what this is all about, i want to invite supervisor jane kim appeared to speak. -- up here to speak. >> thank you, mayor lee. i got to come to the end of a really long process, close to 14 years,

>> so some of the things i am currently working on are not necessarily on the local level, not necessarily local lobbying. i am very involved in working for a large social service provider. the work that i do for them, a jewish family civil services, is actually more on the state level, helping tried to fight some of these budget the work there has been working with lots of different emigrant communities. supervisor kim: who were you doing lobbying with? >> i also represent on the state level and organization in the of north bay that ranges membership more sort of public affairs, educating their members would jar public and nonprofit called the north bay leadership council. i started working at chase bank, helping them with land-use approvals as they started to expand their presence in san francisco. supervisor kim: thank you. >> i also worked for public agencies doing community outreach work. i worked on high-speed rail project and that kind of stuff. supervisor farrell: that was my line of questioning also. supervisor kim: thank you. next we have jenny lam. >> a good morning, supervisors

at a very local level -- this has a direct impact for your age, and in between. the things that you educate us on today, they'll be debated with a different priority but we will take this back to washington. that will be part of the discussion with the other 99, and the different communities across the country. there are others who are not, and some of the work that is being done today, this is very important for the people in alabama. people facing the tornadoes and flooding. the only way that we can be ready in an emergency is to do our homework and listen to you and your counterparts across the country. i already have these discussions with others, and i wanted here with all of the it -- hear from all of you today. >> before we go with this activity, i would love for you to go round the room and say your name and age, and what agency you represent. >> i am 20 years old, [unintelligible] >> i am andrew, 18. >> my name is nathan, 19 years old, president of club -- >> i work for the transitional issues initiative. >> i am rochelle, 17, -- >> i am part of the yout

level. it's not economic. you have a weekly in things like that. but hyper local information has gotten more vibrant than it has ever been. a lot of them are not big commercial enterprises, they are sick enterprises and they are not profitable, but they don't have to be. this is a sort of civic enterprise a thousand points of journalism sprouting up in communities around the country. in 2010 as a result of all these changes, a major milestone was achieved which is this is the first unit people of the news on the internet and through the paper newspapers. and if you look at the charts, which is an age breakdown, the left chart is the youngest cohort and the right chart is the older co-worker you can see which way this is heading. so, that is the story of abundance. but one of the counter intuitive things we found is that despite this abundance, it turns out you can have an abundance of media outlets and a shortage of reporting. so again, to return to baltimore, where the most in-depth study was done, to research looked and felt there's an enormous number of prolife

that paralyzed us at the local level. i think opponents of opa come we're not trying to basically supplant opa with the stafford act. but we are trained to go in a state of florida. we have tested models. we have put everything through over and over case studies, and because we are so impacted by our storms, we were unable at the local level to make decisions firsthand. it has always been at the local level and worked that up. under the unified command, the responsible party hijack the entire process. we were basically at their mercy, their decision-making. we were disconnected from our state partners, and idly from our federal partners in the process. we called it unidentified command. we would wait for weeks and weeks trying to get things done. we wasted incredible amounts of time looking at boom strategies and national contingency plans in every contingency plans that were extremely dysfunctional. they were antiquated. there was no span of control. there was no unified command. the state of florida in my area, the panh

we're talking about a more aggressive position in terms of pursuit at the state and local level. i would respectfully ask that when president obama comes to our beautiful city that there be a request put before him that we look at the city and county, which is the city and the municipality, ok? we got some showers here that need no where else. to -- we got some powers here that ain't nowhere else. we are a city and county. we are a consolidated neighborhood. we may have missed our opportunity to be a model for the redevelopment agency. one second, ma'am. 50% of the money has gone to affordable housing. we are not doing ballparks. this is the fact. we need that affordable housing. it need that for black people and people -- we need that for black people and people of color and so third-generation immigrants can live here. so, i am thinking that one of the things that we did do to deal with public safety, to deal with land use issues is to now start a commitment for jobs, housing. supervisor cohen: sharon -- >> lets make sure the twitter people are connected to creating affordable

level. it's not economic. you have a weekly in things like that. but hyper local information has gotten more vibrant than it has ever been. a lot of them are not big commercial enterprises, they are sick enterprises and they are not profitable, but they don't have to be. this is a sort of civic enterprise a thousand points of journalism sprouting up in communities around the country. in 2010 as a result of all these changes, a major milestone was >> commissioners offered their opinions on the matter. we begin with remarks by commissioner michael copps. this is about 30 minutes. >> well, a alk about. i promise i will be relatively brief. thank you, first of all, steve, for your energetic presentation of the report and for all the hard work you put into it and i'll have more to say about that later. obviously we have some very serious problems here in the issue is, what are we going to do about them? let's begin with a basic truth. the future of our country's media is an issue that goes to the heart of our democracy. a well-informed public. a well-informed public. a

on the local level, i would love for us to figure out what we can do, because this is the heart of san francisco. as i said before, they provide 70% of the jobs here. most people do not realize that. small businesses are what provides jobs here. they provided locally and the hon not going to go, they are not going to offshore their jobs any time. i think we're in a very difficult city. we have tons of permits, tons of different apartments to go through. i wish there were a way to streamline the process, just to make it easier for them to be here in san francisco. >> what are your thoughts about expanding the tax breaks, giving business to other areas in your district? >> i talked a little bit earlier about raising taxes and raising revenues and fees, and for me, the tax exemption is something i do not philosophically supports. yet, i often represent part of san francisco that has been neglected for decades, and that is the midmarket corridor. we have over 3 million square feet of commercial real estate. a lot of it has been vacant for decades. the building twitter is going to be using,

there are several things in place on the state and local level having an adverse affect on our financial health locally. we are in a quandary. we cannot really move beyond that until we remove the pocket. prop. 13 is a serious block. it would free up hundreds of thousands of dollars that could be brought into public schools and could also be in fused in our local -- infused in our local and state economy. that is a very complicated question, and one i have only brush the surface on. that is another segment. >> we will follow that by another complicated question. i would like to get your thoughts on homelessness and what the city is doing about homelessness, what direction you think we should be headed in, a big issue in san francisco. >> homelessness is interesting. when you look at it as a sociological perspective, we have some of the people in the homeless community enjoying being on the street. others want help. i think when we also -- we need to do a better job of taking care of those mentally ill. when you are on the street and you listen to the homeless folks or you watch them inte

. >> democrats are more supporters are bringing that -- of bringing that down to the local level. >> reporter: 60% of california voters are adamant, they do not want to see a tax increase to pay for prison reform. christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> economists say the u.s. economy is still not in full recovery mode. the u.s. is likely to add between 150000-200000 jobs a month to 2013 and the u.s. economy should grow at 3-4% per year. even that will not be enough to reverse economic damage or job losses caused by the recession. >>> the median home price fell 9% to an average of $3,702,000. the data company says it includes a loss of the federal tax credit and a high percentage of stressed home scales sales. alameda, contra costa, and solano counties in streams double-digit drops. >>> pandora shot out of the gates today. we will explain what the company has to offer investors, coming up in about five minutes. >>> the start of summer is just a few days away. in san jose five of six community pools are open. in downtown los gatos people cooled off in the mountain. they have been w

it has to be done at these local levels. that is so the superintendent's and gentlemen like yourself in your own area can work with either the community college. i want to ask about cyber security. we're going to have such a demand continually and maybe this is an area where we will get, hopefully, the kind of national porn-defense fellowships' that we is to get what we were in the cold war. now that we have the cyber security challenge that will be with us forever, can the defense department, knowing they have to work with u.s. citizens and immigrants, can they be a place to take that information? they're the ones who brought women into the military force. they did not have enough people in the military force it is the same thing now. we don't have enough skilled people. but think there has to be a use of the u.s. military that may help accelerate these sclerotic changes that we all seem to agree we need. >> let me collect a couple more questions. >> i am an independent management consultant. i really like the four pieces y