and we send the mailer out to a sample so residential customers will get this e1 mailer. and we also send sample comparisons to small, medium and large commercial customers. so that the rates are identified there at the bottom line of that first table, identifying what the average monthly bill impact is. so you can see there at the bottom line that the green product is comparable to pg and e service with a little bit of savings and the same goes for super green as compared to solar choice, 100% renewable. on the -- on the table on the right side, is a summary of power content. and you can see the different electricity generation technologies on the left column and then the percentages that -- of those resources included in our -- in the various electricity products. and this is consistent with how we report our product to consumers under state regulations enforced by the california energy commission. and then there's some text there that describes, you know, what customers are looking at in as plain language as possible. so this is the joint rate mailer. they're going out

but then it is paid for by private sector, by mailers. part of the reason we can't figure out a solution what to do with that unfunded liability, fundamentally we can't figure out, should we continue to make the postal service self-sustaining? if we're giving them a 40 billion-dollar loan which has been happening due to the lack of that they have made on retiree health, this year the -- really they're not self-sustaining but if they're a business, that means we have to let them have more flexibility to the respond to the changing market. if they're a federal entity should they do more to do social good? should they do more to support local communities and what do we do with the infrastructure? the final area i see a lot of disagreement about how we define success. as an auditor, what is the outcome? what are your definable goals? how do we know we're getting there? some people want a healthy usps. you hear word like robust, thriving, financially stable. those are the folks that say, you know, if a postal carrier is going down that road si

what got lost with the appreciation that mailer they represented costs mailers took on themselves to improve the cost efficiency of postal operations. this failure to recognize the full value of this work has lessened the attractiveness of communicating and conducting business by mail. as a consequence mail volume and let her new -- revenue have left the system and businesses have turned to other more cost-effective avenues. if the postal service is to survive, all postal services must profitable. -- must be profitable. it is essential that each class of mail bear the full burden of its of trivial costs and its fair share towards the coverage of this institutional cost. to accomplish this the method used across attribution must be -- used for cross attribution must be rigorous enough to flag and charge the costs to the right class of services. only a fool would fear to appreciate that if you do not get the costing right, you will market the pricing right, either. some movers of congress claim -- members of congress claim that the charges are not sufficient to ensure postal profitabil

i knew this mailer existed, and of betty ford,a trying to keep my kids enained. i went to the ford library's website, download the mailer, and we made be betty ford red felt cardinal. it was betty ford's idea that women could just go into their sewing baskets and use what they had around the house. i had to go to hobby lobby. [laughter] prof. hummer: i did not have any of the stuff in my house. it was really fun. it is one of my favorite christmas ornament. i display it every year. there are so many examples of things betty ford did to be a good role model for homemakers during this period of high inflation. she once told a white house briefing on consumers and food that she made sure the president cleaned his plate at every meal. she said, if they did not take it away, i'm afraid he would eat the plate also. [laughter] prof. hummer: no speech on betty ford would be complete without mentioning how she raised breast cancer awareness. she could have easily remained silent on this topic. when mamie eisenhower was first lady and had a hysterectomy, it was referred to

i do not want all of that mailers and employees off the hook either. the customers of the postal service have essentially expected to maintain the existing levels of service including delivery frequency and delivery modes that existed prior to paea. we have to confront whether or not that is viable going forward. if so, how are we going to pay for it? as far as label and the postal service employee unions as they are supposed to do, actively advocate on behalf of the members and enjoy wages and benefits far in excess of comparable compensation in the sector. thinking about what we would like to see out of any future legislation and i have to note that just yesterday representative meadows introduced a new piece of legislation that would form the postal service.i agree with what ann said and what the country needs from the postal system in the 21st century. even more poorly, how it should be funded. again, i do have great concern that continuing to expect a small number of commercial users to fund universal service at its current level is not sustainabl

the proposed modifications to the ordinance would be to increase the size of the mailer. also, for the postage notice, there are two modifications that are proposed. one is to restore language that is currently in the code that gives a zoning administrator the ability to come up with a different way of meeting the postage requirement when it is not physically feasible. you know, mail is always the same and mail is already the same and the internet is always the same. co the historic preservation oneonpointed out to the ferry building has a 700-foot frontage. would you put that many as 47 posters up? we would rewrite the ability to make those modifications to that. in addition, the other modification would be to add language that requires it to be visible from the sidewalk or right of way. there is language that says it needs to be close to the street in t, but based on the comments from commissioners and the public last time, they can often be hard to see and we thought it was important to emphasize the best goal and the standard we are aiming for. all right. in relation

to sizes of the materials, you can see that a couple of these are about the proposed side of the mailer. >> the legislation still has 4.5 by 6, by the way. >> and the staff resolution as currently written now is to do a half sheet which could be another commission policy, it could be done through a variety of means. >> president hillis: is that going to be in the ordinance, the 5.5 by 8.5, or is that commission policy? >> you have to have something. >> president hillis: well, we could set that as the minimum, obviously sy commsion policy. >> you could go more hils. >> that's what i'd recommend. >> president hillis: and then, the size of the poster. >> it's got a minimum of 11 by 17 in the ordinance, and we've got the same situation. we can adjust that, what color it should be, what we can do with that. >> president hillis: when you come back with the language, we should ask you to com back before january 1 with commission policy. >> commissioner richards: so we're going to have another hearing with the public coming and saying, it needs to be blue, it needs to be 6 inches by 12. >> once

would be the point in time to talk about the engagement for what works for the postcards and for the mailers. we wouldn't want to come back and have a policy discussion before doing at least that amount of the work. the whole conversation doesn't have to happen in one hearing. we can do that and then you all can consider whether to have such a policy or not. in the interim, any specific details in how the posting or mailing is done is always up to the zoning administrator, so at the bare minimum, we would update our bulletins to account for the differed conditions on-sites, but the commission policy is probably the clearest way for you to be in control of that dialogue. >> president hillis: that's fairly easy to change, too, from time to time. >> by resolution of this commission. >> president hillis: right. >> that's right. >> president hillis: commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: i believe there's a significant amount of passion from the department and all of staff. and i appreciate your ability to really respond in the moment to very important questions. however, the more questions a

so if y'n' vote in election, ohio since you a mailer.f you don't respond to that mailer to confirm your registration and you m miss two more elections, your purged from the rolls even if you are still eligible to vote. what ohio is doing is they're using a new way of purging try to kick people off the voting rolls this is disturbing not just because ohio is set in important swing state but this could open the door to more voter purging by republican states and really, in a lot of was, compromise people's most fundamental rights. amy: in her dissent, justice otis on mayor wrote -- -- justtomaice sor wrote -- "congress enacted the against the backdrop of substantial efforts by states to disenfranchise low-income and minority voters, including programs that purged eligible voters from registration lists bebecause theyey failed to voton prior electitions." sotomayor went on to write -- "the court errs in ignoring this statutory text, ultimately sanctioning the very purging that congress expressly sought to protect agagainst," she adde. >> th

he called "the enquirer" a campaign mailer. that's an interesting way to think about it. any coordination between the white house, the president and this pro-trump outlet, this campaign mailer, that is very, very unusual. >> and that coming from nunberg is significant, given his role. >> yes. that was on the record, that was not an anonymous source. i thought this was really interesting reporting by "the washington post." it tells us more about just how connected "the national enquirer" and the president are. >> thank you both, appreciate it very, very much. >>> i should note this morning, legendary conservative columnist and commentator charles krauthammer has died. he was a columnist for "the washington post" more than 30 years shaping political conversations for generations. he had been fighting an aggressive form of cancer. his colleague at fox news, host chris wallace, said this about him. quote, most of us are lucky if we think in phrases. a few of us are good enough to think in sentences. charles thought in paragraphs or even in pages. charles krauthammer was 68 ye

that is a half sheet postcard mailer at a minimum. the fifth recommendation was to have a notification period, universal notification period of 30 days rather than the 20 days proposed in the ordinance. another amendment from the planning commission, number six and the resolution that you received is to have the limited rear yard additions that she was speaking about to continue to have notification. and i should also clarify that you have been provided with a corrected resolution from the planning commission which i proto vided the clerk at the beginning of this hearing. there was one minor correction which was issued by the correction affairs staff this morning. simply to strike out a finding in the resolution that was no longer applicable given the commission's recommendations. that is the resolution that is before you right now. finally, there were a few other modifications suggested by the planning commission. again, in the notification requirements, commission recommended that the specifics of what should be mailed and the size

the race has been contentious with arguments and debates and a set of controversial mailers sent out by edwards supporters accusing alsobroo of being a pay to play candidate. voters week spoke with said it comes down to having their voices heard in this election. >> in the climate we're in think it's very, very important that we participate in our local governmentecause that's where we start. >> if you don't participate in the election you can't s anything. if something comes up and you feel like something has gone wrong, i feel le youroice doesn't matter because you didn't go vote. >> reporter: you still have time to vote. you hav until 8:00 p.m. if you near line by 8:00 p.m., your vote will be counted. you will be allowed to vote. it is important no matter what to get throughout and vote. i'm tracee wilkins. back to you in the studio. >> still time thank you. >>> the first polls are out sincehe virginia primary sent contenders for federal offices. it shows republican bar ra comstock trailing jennifer wexton by 10% point. the margin of error is 6.9%. in the virginia senate race acco

. >> hundreds of thousands of dollars in negative ads, in fancy mailers, dumped into the small stateegislative campaigns. >> nice guy, too bad he is voting with the liberals. >> they swamped democratic incumbents who never saw this coming. your budget in some of the state legislative races might only be 100 or $150,000. suddenly, all of this outside money comes barrelling in. these incumbents were done. >> we picked up about 700 state legislative seats. to put that in perspective, the democrats picked up 322 seats in 2006. post watergate was 600 seats for the democrats. we won around 700 sfeats. >> it caught the white house and democratic party by surprise. the republicans were just simply better organized and more strategic. karl rove said, when you draw the lines, you make the rules. there it is. if you get to draw the lines, you get to shape the rules of politics for a long, long time. >> as they sit down to draw these lines, they have a very accurate picture of who lives in each of these houses and how they are likely to vote. lingham, edge of the box, willingham shoots... gooooo

there were mailers in this district, trying to get republicans excited about lib libertore. this is another lockout potential. you have harkey running in she'lo good. the lockout question, this is where they are feeling really good in terms of avoiding the lockout. fourth, fifth place. all democrats. very much like what they are seeing here. donald trump see this where isa barely got re-elected a couple years ago. and the 10th district, denham, he's g to finish first. he's going to run in the fall. you have this other on the right there, howze. he's been threaten bg half the vote we think or so. he's been threatening to pull in second above jeff harder. about half in. democrats are probably cautiously optimistic. that's probably the word you would use. so, again, four lockout possibilities as the votes start to come in for democrats. right now they are not in position to be locked out for any of them. a little morten kwrous elsewhere. the votes are coming in slow tonight. there is a lot still to come. but democrats, look, their main goal coming in tonight, can you avoid that

we sent out over 25,000 mailers to a very broad project area . we had several opportunities for public comment starting with an initial pop up table of events a the local library. getting input from people where they felt safe, what the use the street for and how we can improve it. we initially it some pretty broad support for a plan to install physical traffic d iverters on eighth avenue. which is our best tool we in our tool box to lower traffic v olumes. shift the priorities for eighth avenue away from a primarily car access street to one for people walking and biking. we showed those proposals at a community meeting. received pretty broad support through online survey and in person voting and on our third public meeting, we showed plans for these physical traffics in a final form. that the point, we heard some pretty strong feedback from richmond about how this traffic volume on their street will impact their daily lives. we worked with the supervisor's office to get the word out. conducting that townhall where people can have the opportunity

areas in particular, one area, and we have that option open to all in san francisco, so we are doing mailers, letting them know in the bill, and through the ad campaigns that they have the opportunity for free pick-up, it's part of their garbage rate twice a year. because you are right, they think well, somebody is going to take it away, and yes, somebody does, but in the interim, you have an eye sore and a hazard on the sidewalk. >> ok. i appreciate that, and glad to know you don't like it either. all right. any other questions? thank you. let's keep moving. department building of inspection. then we'll hear from the retirement board. >> good afternoon, supervisors, here on behalf of director tom heely and on behalf of the director, thank the budget analyst, and the budget accepts the recommendations. >> supervisor cohen: can't let you go that easily. we have to ask you something. let's see here -- 1.6 budget increase in year 1, and 1.6 reduction in year two. you have 25.2 f.t.e. increase in year one, but year one, stable. budget changes are driven by tall building peer review. maybe you ca

so the average effect of the mailers, the phone calls, the television advertisements is zero. now, there are quibbles to be made with that study but it suggests that some things like attitudes -- what i've been trying to -- i can move attitudes. right? it appears to be harder to change this stubborn behavior of voting for a particular candidate although like many things differ between those kinds of studies, and so the jury is really still out on whether or not we can move behavior. >> in the red sweater. so the thing that i've been thinking about the most is over the past four years or so, the research in this area has really accumulated and we've got a number of senses of the research. like u pen just had a conference in december on this and the white paper is available. i highly recommend checking that out. there's a book edited by bryan and emily on this matter that is a collection of research and your book sounds interesting, i'll check that out for sure. but what do we do in terms of moving research to reality? because as researchers we tend to run all these experiments

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think of all the mailers you got in the election. those things got lost in the mail. they need to see the plans. as i said in my letter, and i gave the examples, those plans had not gone out and certain people had not seen those. he would never have seen that project. it would have just dated. and same with the flats on 26th street. you would have had a little thing behind the garage that would have been sold as a single-family home. the neighbors had not gotten the plan and they had not reached it to that people -- those people. i got this the other day. it was mailed on the first. it arrived on the fourth. it is about the hearing on the 21st for a demolition. it was not 20 days, armed no plans. people who have demolitions near them don't get the plans. they struggle to get the plans. i understand you don't want to mail things to people, i can get that. but immediate neighbours, may be needs to be broader, should get the plan. neighborhood people who run organizations, need to get the plan. people that no need to get the plan. eleven by 17. you can't go online and lo

so god bless all the hate-mailers. and the fact is that in the name of advanced -- enhancing the online experience, social media platforms, tend to push people toward others who are like them and agree with them, because it's always more agreeable to have someone agree with you. defending those engaged in the work of establishing verifiable truths, and i see that as one of our purposes today. and that's across a broad range, whether they were specialists in government agencies who collect and disseminate accurate information, scientists and others in the academy who subject their work to critical execute knee or the practitioners of old fashioned journalism, defending all of these folks is essential to carrying out all the other tasks of democracy. disorienting the public by blurring the line between fact and falsehood, alexander hamilton warned us long ago is the trick of the despite whose object is to throw things into confusion that he may ride the storm and direct the whirlwind. it should now be clear that false ba

anyway, my question is, i was listening to her talk on norman mailer some years ago, and he said that when it comes to writing fiction, the worst person you could have as a narrator is yourself. it should just be somebody you're comfortable with. my question would be, how much action that she think is really basically autobiographical writing in that kind of pain? thanks very much. >> host: thanks. >> guest: that is such an excellent question. people, especially if it done a good job people always do think that is really you, right? they think that it must be you. of course it is your job to make it seem that way, but, in fact, just as norman mailer said the worst possible thing you could ever do is write a book where you are the author, the narrator and it is your life. not interesting enough to be a novel. they are not structured like a novel, and more importantly the facts are often not as interesting as the facts told -- i will say that because they grew up with what seemed to be an underrepresented world, the world my father grew up in, it was not on the page. figures like me and

a chipotle mailer? a valpak? even if it says "occupant," we'll believe you.game beeping ] [ telephone beeps ] he's gonna be gator meat. ♪ okay, let's go over this one more time. so, you have all the emergency numbers, right? do not hesitate to use them. hey. hey. ohhhh. goodbye, my son. we've had some good times together. like that time you first got your gold chain yeah. and, uh... and when you first wore that gold chain and, uh... some other times i can't recall right now, but it's all good. it's all good. i'll see you guys on the other side. okay. okay. i hope. yeah, okay. one more hug, honey. i love you so much. you're such a handsome boy. ♪ you know what, babe? the place actually doesn't look so bad. surprisingly tranquil. [ school bell rings ] [ both scream ] [ indistinct chatter ] junior? junior? son! aah! oh! somebody grabbed my booty! we just got to get out of here, all right? it's about us now. he hasn't answered any of my texts! maybe the school just doesn't have reception. of course it doesn't! we sent him to a prison. ugh. we failed our son. sure

text messages 800,000 members as part of a program that includes meeting with workers and sending mailerso homes. we have a goal of speaking to every union member and getting them to recommit to the union said seiu president mary kay henry. roughly half of its 2 million members are public sector workers. and the supreme court, there is a challenge to agency fees on the basis of the first amendment. arkansas onng from our independent line. caller: good morning to you. thank you to c-span for taking my call. i have comments on labor and trade. on labor, unfortunately we have been operating under socialist capitalism for 80 years since the new deal. bearing the cost of all retirement pensions is the idea, pushing that cost only on to labor and the cost of all medical since johnson of the med icare in the 1960's. that extra 15% tax on labor means that you're making it easier for capital. if both are producing a widget that costs a dollar to produce, 90% tax to is paying produce that versus the guy that the million-dollar machine or has to pay 9%, you are subsidizing capital and keeping the va

and it's of course your job to t make it seem that way that just as norman mailer said, the worst thing you can do is write a book where you are the author, the narratoof thenarrator and it is. people just are not interesting enough to be a novel, they are not structured like a novel and the facts are often not as interesting as the facts told slant. because i grew up in an underrepresented world like so it's a very natural thing for me to use those to inform my fiction. it the way that it is autobiographical the intentions are my intentions. it was once said the artist looks by looking the world in itself. we all wish that she set herself of course, but the fact ofof the matter is as a result of our content with the world, we have all developed nerves and sensitivities. and it is my opinion that if you can find one of those, you will vehave a book. but it will be very personal because they are yours, but it would be far moree interesting than the facts of your f life. so it is a chinese-american girl turned jewish. like why is that funny. we would keep these index cards and i would wri

i anyway, my question is i was listening to a talk, norman mailer some years ago and he said that when it comes to writing fiction the worst person you can have as a narrator is yourself. it should just be someone you're comfortable with. my question is how much of fiction do you think is really basically autobiography writing in that kind of vein. takes her much. host: thanks, glenn. guest: excellent question. aespecially few do a good job people always think that it's really you they think that you must be you. of course, it's your job to make it seem that way. but, in fact, just aut a norman miller said the worst possible thing you could ever do is write a book where you are the author, you are the narrator and it's your life took our lives are not very interesting, generally. not interesting enough to be a novel, they aren't structured like a novel and the facts are often not as interesting as the facts-- [inaudible] i will say becausese i grew up in what was an underrepresented world like the world my father grew up in, not on the page, you know. figures like me and scarsdale, new