Had high speed access and the change certainly reflects increased Data Intensity and increased volume of Internet Activity and between 7 and 11 every night netflix consumes a great deal of internet capacity and Everyone Needs higher speed to keep up with that and in terms of the common barriers to Broadband Access at home three factors stand out and one is availability, do you have access in your neighborhood at your resident do wires come to your house . In general San Francisco has good coverage we have lots of providers, but theres about 17 that we counted wired and wireless providers but when you look at just wired service for the home the number of providers drops down it is only one in certain areas but its higher than that there are 4 or more in certain areas so its not equally distributed across the city and we have a map showing the distribution in the report. We have many more choices for Cellular Wireless service but that has limitations the speeds offered are lower and caps
Costly to provide free hardware or refush refurbished hardware. Supervisor christiansen. Listening to the connection noises that supervisor mar played for us, are there things that we that we should be doing to pave the the way literally for this to happen in the future talk about retro theres lots of neighborhood in the in the city that still have overhead wires and i know that there are plans that the city has to put conduits in streets that are torn up that sort of thing and are some of those programs potentially helpful down the line if we ever get to a point of becoming better wired . Yes supervisor christiansen i think those opportunities would definitely help and the city of santa monica is a good example they have a program now called incremental municipal broadband and they are doing exactly that so as other projects are executed and streets are dug up they are putting in their Municipal Fiber Network and its going a little bit at a time but they get another couple of blocks i
Additional 9,000 to its credit cards despite owing a whopping 311,000 in debt. Hardworking taxpayers are counting on us to set priorities and to stick to them because a balanced budget will boost our nations economic output and help restore the promise of a government that is more effective. A balanced budget will allow americans to spend more time working hard to grow their businesses or to advance in their jobs instead of worrying about taxes and inefficient regulations. We know it wont be easy by working together we can deliver Real Solutions and Real Progress the American People want and deserve. I look forward to working with each and everyone of you in this crucial task in the days and weeks ahead. Chairman price . I want to thank the chairman and appreciate everybodys participation. I would note that the number of senators significantly outnumbers the number of house members but were fine with that. We think we have equal firepower. So were raring to go with the Conference Commi
Czars caused during the transition into office and in the earlier months. And even the years of the presidency. We found this development of the phenomenon to be fascinating. And mysterious. And we spent a good number of years learning more about that. And when we discuss how early the presence of gob. I may clarify he can actually what we mean when we use the word czar. Tasks with coordination and responsibilities over a particular policy problem that said administration is intense on either solving or at least appearing to solve. What i want to talk about this afternoon is czars. What the pressures are that lead administrationes to create them. And what czars are able to accomplish. And talking about that a little bit in general. And particularly with respect to the experiences of george bushs post 9 11 czars. When the new complex problems facing the nation will become salient and creating both a political and policy need for action. Richard nixon with john love and william simon. An
Years. And that to me is a tremendous compliment, because madrones dont like people and houses. So if a madrone grows, you feel like youre doing things right. She spends much of her free time in her garden as her mother once did. My mother who had a house on this same ridge and who came from the east, was determined to put an eastern garden on a california hillside and she did so. So we had three lawns, two of which were very large indeed. But with no end in sight to the drought taylor is breaking with tradition. Shes gotten rid of her lawn. Like many californians, lawns themselves were east coast transplants. This is levittown, pennsylvania a new suburban community. After world war ii, when Home Ownership became a symbol of middle class achievement, lawns were a key feature in new housing developments. So all the houses are very much the same, and its patriotic. We just came back from the war, and now its embedded in our culture that we are taking care of each other by keeping our nei