weber. and thanks to you the viewer. i hope this conversation has been informative about proposition b. for more information check out the league's web site at sfvotes.org and be sure you >> hello. i'm steve mcdonald with the league of women voters of san francisco, here today to talk about problem -- proposition d, a measure that the citizens of san francisco will be voting on november 2. >> proposition d is a measure that would allow noncitizen residents of san francisco to vote for member of the board of education if they have a parent or guardian of a child living in the school district and they are over 18 years of age. >> i'm here with chris miller, vice chair of communications with the republican party of san francisco, who is going to speak in opposition to proposition d. chiss -- chris, what is it that you feel the key points are in opposition to proposition d? >> sure. well, there are a number of reasons that the republican party as a whole has chosen to oppose proposition d. one of the main reasons is the fact

weber. and thanks to you the viewer. i hope this conversation has been informative about proposition b. for more information check out the league's web site at sfvotes.org and be sure you >> in 2006, san francisco voters passed a declaration of policy that the mayor should appear at least monthly at a board of supervisors meeting. 56% of the voters favored the measure. 44% rejected it. in 2007, the voters defeated the proposition to change the charter to make the mayor's appearance mandatory with 51% of the voters against the measure and 49% in favor. proposition c asks voters to reverse their 2005 decision. proposition c is a charter amended that would require the mayor to appear in person at one regularly scheduled meeting of the board of supervisors each month to engage in formal policy discussions with the board. proposition c would also require the board of supervisors in consultation with the mayor to adopt ordinances providing rules and guidelines about the mayor's appearances before the board. a yes vote would re

weber, why do you support proposition b? >> i became involved in pension reform nearly two years ago as a member of the san francisco civil grand jury. at that time the grand jury elected to investigate pensions within the safety, police and fire departments. we investigated pension distributions for the 10-year period 1998 to 2008 and we were -- we paid particular attention to the practice of pension spiking. pension spiking is the end of career promotion or temporary assignment into a position where one earns a higher compensation and a higher retirement benefit from that compensation. we found within safety a significant number of retirees who spiked their pension in their final year and created tens of millions of dollars of potential pension obligations for the citizens of san francisco. the findings and recommendations be that report were largely ignored by city officials and administrators of city departments. for that reason i decided to continue my involvement with the grand jury and served a second year on the gran

pro publica's tracy weber spent six months digging through the records of hundreds of doctors. >> we found an ohio physician who had, who was accused of performing unnecessary nerve tests on more than 20 patients. the ohio board voted to revoke his license. he's appealing that right now. we found a psychiatrist who was accused of gross negligence in the care of one of her patients and is on five years probation. we found a doctor accused of giving drugs-- pain killers-- unnecessarily to his patients. >> reporter: weber says five of the seven drug companies that disclose payments to doctors do not review state medical board disciplinary records. >> it's pretty simple to do a lot of these checks. these are public websites and what was surprising is that they don't check them. it would take a few minutes for each doctor. >> reporter: in addition, more than 40 doctors paid to educate about brand-name drugs have received f.d.a. warnings for research misconduct, lost hospital privileges or been convicted of crimes. at least 20 have had two or more malpractice judgments or settlements. >> i

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. >> and it's the same story in champaign where bruce weber has a wealth of young talent.on those dynamic players. mccamy turned a corner with a turn from then on. he put in a lot of work this summer. >> now this is it. he tested the waters last year. nba got some feedback, backed up what i had been saying which was positive. now is he ready to take it? people say a big step. i don't think it's a big step. it's a little step. he's taking the little step of being competitive and living up to his ability. >> and then this afternoon another big signee for bruce weber. mike shaw chose illinois this afternoon. the fourth member of next year's class all four from chicago and all very highly regarded. bruce already has a monster freshman class in place. next year's crew won't be far behind. they're going to rack up serious talent down there in champaign. and the world series is a blowout again tonight. >> up two games. >> thanks. >> that's the news this thursday night. i'm micah materre. >> i'm mark suppelsa. have a good night. see you tomorrow. >> announcer: great news from the

the weber, i think each of your offices have received a flood of emails from various people in the industry. and supervisor campos, you asked somebody earlier about the attendance of meetings. i believe i have attended more attendance -- more commission meetings than a lot of the commissioners over the last four years. it think euphoric your consideration, -- thank you for your consideration, and i think would be a great strength for the commission. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. next, michael o'connor. thank you for waiting, mr. o'connor. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is michael o'connor. i'm here to request a possible appointment to the entertainment commission. i will acknowledge i have served last six years on the small business commission, where i have spearheaded the small business assistance center downstairs, which i'm very proud of. i think small businesses are the lifeline to all of our communities. i have also worked on the mayor's health care task force. i have worked on the back street business task force. one of the things i really appreciate abou

weber. sarcoma is a darned cancer. >> uh-huh. >> when do you find out. >> we found out when he was five he was complaining of pain when he was 4 and just he just complained his hand hurt all the time if he bumped it or whatever. >> you took him in noon he said he had a hairline practiceture and they had a bunch basically of different things they thought were going on. they thought it was a cyst and they wanted to us leave him and we were insistent about take it out and they did and that's when they found out it was a cancerous tumor. >> when you hear that your life goes -- >> yep, pretty much. >> you got here today you go to what school sunset? what grade are you in. >> second. >> how you feeling today. you look great. >> good. >> because you got a good doctor and you want to talk to your doctor, dr. weber? sarcoma. had they get this, what goes through their mind, doctor? >> i think it's a devastating situation when i have to tell a parent or a child or family members that someone has cancer

>>weber: it is always important that we h >>reporter: setting the standards means that speed and comfort will have to go hand in hand with efficiency and environmental cleanliness. >>zetsche: well, i think it is great to have a platform to show the world, there are rising confidence and growth patterns in the auto industry as well. >>reporter: but of course the real prize is asia, where massive economic growth, especially in china, is drivingdemand. it's clear cadillac sees its re-launch in europe as a stepping stone towards wealthy customers in emerging markets. >>schubert: we know that russia, the middle east, and asia are looking at what is happening in europe. so, if you are in europe and european buyers chose you, that is very important to the other markets. so - europe is kind of a base for the other markets. >>reporter: there is improvement across the board. producers who started the year with very conservative profit targets are revising upwards, margins have returned to nearly pre crisis rates and volumes are expected to continue rising over the next decade although perhaps at a

. >> reporter: in the crowd, accepting donations for a local food bank, small business owner, eric weber>> citizens have been asleep at the wheel. >> reporter: never involved in politics before he sees america drifting away from the values of individual freedom and responsibility. government is too big, in debt and out of touch. and he fears for the country he'll leave his grandchildren. >> a lot of us have just woken up. >> this columnist sees it this way, the american voters are tired of what they're seeing. >> they see a succession of republicans first and democrats bailing out people who are always the kind of guys that get bailed out. >> reporter: with this is a suburban st. louis landmark where they have serve dogs with dignity and they are indignant because they say politicians are ignoring them. do you trust what goes on in washington? >> no. >> i am angry with politicians in general. >> all of them? >> all of them. >> reporter: in a campaign filled with partisan squabbling and finger-pointing, many voters are questioning whether the politicians even realize how worried they are

well for more on the situation in france i'm now joined by douglas weber he's a professor of political science from inside it's one of the world's largest graduate business schools thanks very much indeed for joining us there in paris professor since it's looking like a case of it's looking like a case of fait accompli now isn't it so why do you think these people are still striking and protesting in the streets. well the first thing to be borne in mind i think is that the numbers that have turned dark put in days protests have been a great deal lower than in previous weeks so the wave of protests is actually declining otherwise i would say. they are clinging to the straws that the president may still be forced to actually not promulgated the law and to practice and be given a. window in this respect by the fact that the system in the parliament has taken a case brought on the pension reform to the. courts and the law want to come into effect until the court has actually ruled on this issue so do you think the final point i think. carol final point is that in two thousand and two thous

douglas weber a paris based professor of political science argues that as the protesters don't directly suffer from financial occurrence from their own actions they are more than prepared to go on. certainly the protests and strikes that had caused some economic damage to the us probably quite hard what next exact figure on this but one ought to bear in mind i think that the the people actually striking they're not going to actually pay these these costs for the most part people are actually on strike from the public sector apart from the fact that they won't be paid for the days they were on strike they won't be affected by the negative economic fallout of the of these kinds of protests so that's the reason why in fact they are able to go on actually i think. long and while france like most other european nations struggles to slash spending the european union itself is after more cash the european commission and the european parliament have proposed raising the e.u.'s budget by six percent the idea is a resented by the larger states which are unwilling to pay for the problems of smalle