certainly, improved safety and improved activation and mintz of the parts will come together to help us to a better job and serve the public. with that, i would urge you to be aggressively asserted in supporting increased funding and resources for increased security, activation, and maintenance levels within our parks. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i am wearing two hats today. the first is as the chair of the park rangers coalition. this is a brochure that we created. i think you will find it is helpful of reach. we support rangers in golden gate and throughout the city. i would also like to say, as co- chair of the golden gate park preservation alliance, we have concerns about many of the issues that are brought up, especially regarding lighting. if you read the statistics, more crime happens when there are more people in the park. the western end of the park is very quiet. introducing stadium lighting for the soccer fields is totally inappropriate and frankly overkill. impact on wildlife must be considered. night lighting has an negative impact on wildlif

where republicans should move beyond election cycle mintz how that seemed to prove the new treaty so says democratic strategist well we know it would be stupid for the republicans to continue to block it but then again they want to block everything in the past republicans used to work with democrats now since a new game they've been wanting to kill everything break publicans have learned that sound bites can win elections instead of good governing something has to change we have to get past two year old election cycles and think in terms of the good of the country something has to happen to help us to good governance but good governance in the world not just united states includes passage of the start treaty i think perhaps by embarrassing the republicans from trust stopping them from playing politics which is dangerous it's devastating it could cause terrorism to succeed they will come around and pass this treaty well meanwhile told rubin the deputy director of the national security network think tank says delaying the rectification of the start treaty could seriously damage washing

howard mintz, legal reporter for the "san jose mercury news." tom abate, business reporter at the "chronicle." and tom, we will start with you. california does have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, but how is the bay area faring? >> inside the california economy the bay area is a little bit more of an engine. but i think the overarching thing to say, this is a very uneven economy, from top to bottom, whether you look at it regionally, inside the bay area, a little bit better than the california's 12-plus percent unemployment rate, here in the bay area from 9 something, 9.6, in san francisco, the hottest part of the job market, silicon valley starting to heat up. east bay still hit by housing and harder. the rest of the state, depends on how close it was to the housing crisis. and of course as we were discussing earlier, belva, it depends on who you are in this economy. are you a high school dropout? are you a person of color? are you in the inner city? are you low income? are you male versus female? very uneven recession. and