mr. albert, and for all of you for sharing your experiences with us. we work hard to make sure you feel comfortable riding the system and that muni goes where you need to go, i'm pleased you'll be able to take advantage of it, and peter, thank you so much, and thank you for coming down and continuing to support our public transit system in your retirement. [applause] >> ok, thank you. madam chair and thanks again, peter for coming and for that work. definitely want to figure out how to school and sustain and grow that. so, a number of other things i want to touch on, some relating to past things that you have either acted on or asked about. so, first with regard to vision 0, we hear often and i'm sure by at least one member of the public about educating people about riding bikes on the sidewalk. i think it was vice chair heincke asked us to come back and talk about the issue, when the scooters hit the street. in short, we manage bicycle education classes and sidewalk rules, meaning they cannot ride on sidewalks, part of the curriculum of every class. w

mr. albert and his consultant did not address that issue. it wasn't in the report. the public just doesn't know what the impacts of continuous exposure over years is going to be in this case. that's a significant did he efficiency that was not addressed at all in this case. second, as he mentioned earlier, there's a potential that the rent board can make a separate determination of habitablity. that issue isn't preempted under the fcc and i in fact it's determined that an apartment unit and in this case that's one 7 feet away isn't inhabitable when there's a housing shortage in the city, that's something we're going to have to address. mr. fall suggested we had a condition of approval that verizon indemnify property owners that have affected by rf exposure in this case. so if this board is in fact inclined to go ahead and approve this permit, we would ask that you add as a condition of approve that verizon indemnify property owners that are affected. i want to mention something that commissioner lazarus pointed to, which is the fact that, yes, they will be post talk

mr. riskin. >> i would like to comment peter albert on a splendid effort with kids that they utilize public transportation safely. but there's one question that's very important. who is going to protect the kids from rogue bicyclists on the sidewalk? that is very significant. and i think steps have to be taken for that. i have this a situation where i did, i told a cyclist he was riding on the sidewalk, he wheeled back and told me if there were more bike lanes, there would be, he would be using them and not riding on the sidewalk. i responded if there were more houses there would be less burglaries. the same twisted logic. the point is, he was disobeying the law he should have been cited and there should be citations for people who ride the bikes on the sidewalk. there are responsible cyclists who do obey the law, but people who disobey should be cited and should have a citation. furthermore, for more responsibility for cycling, they should pay for a license. motorists pay for a license, cyclists should pay for a license, too. the payment for the license should go to m.t.a. so, this is simply a form of re

was a playwright named albert black who read "all the best" and was particularly struck by this letter to president bush's mother after the loss of robin. i have a letter from mrblack to president bush, and i want to share a little bit of you, and i will show you what president bush wrote. the letter says, mr. president, you write from the heart. if you had not gone into the public life and become president of the united states, i hope you would have become a writer. every word, every phrase, every nuance is from the heart. i've never read anything more perfect and more beautiful than your letter about robin. it is natural poetic genius. letters for me are the most honest form of writing, as a playwright, while i try very hard to focus on what i believe to be the truth in the lives in the stories of the characters i create, i must inevitably second-guess what my characters think and feel, in the same way a novelist would second-guess what his characters think and feel. letters go right to the heart of the matter, because they come from the heart of the writer. they express precisely what the writer thinks and feels. in bearing his soul, letters cut right to th

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mr. speaker, on the week of the congressional baseball game, one which i will wear the uniform of the st. louis cardinals, i rise today and honor the life and career of major league player albert fred cheney who passed away on wednesday, june 6, at 95 years old. he was born in my congressional district in germantown, illinois, on february 2, 1923. red grew up as one of seven children. his dad was a coal miner. he lived in his early days without running water or electricity. he married mary o'riley in 1947 and celebrated 52 years of marriage before she passe away in 1999. together they had four children, 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. as 16 years old while working on a fence under the cilian conservation rps, h suffered an injuryh left eye. that injury made it hard for him to read a breaking ball from the right side so he learned to be a switch hitter. red tried out for the cardinals in 1942 and at his induction ceremony at the baseball hall of fame he said he and his friends hitchhiked a ride to st. louis on a milk truck. quot i never thought that milk truck ride would eventually lead to cooperstown and baseball's highest honor. he also spoke about his attitud