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June 20, 2024
My son is 20 years old. He is in a group home. He is autistic. One of the challenges i have seen is that, as far staffing goes, they have a cap on what they can pay the person, salary wise. My son is severely autistic. He hurts himself. Here is other people. He is 21. Gets cycled over again. They cant bring the proper people in. I was hoping that they can have or anotheressional level based on the intensity. I think i understand. Help me with this. Let me tell you a few things generally. It is t...
June 20, 2024
And we should make highquality education a reality for all. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much. That concludes the debate for the evening. We ask you, as you leave, to take a look at the tables outside. They will be signing books. If you have an interest in speaking with them, please consider yourself invited. Thank you. We want to hear what you thought of the debate on our facebook page. The whole, i watched debate and questions from the audience. Not much new here. This debate...
June 20, 2024
What it was like to live in the United States of america in 1964. And this is not being done to shame anyone, its not being done to cause persons to have some sort of guilty reflections. This is being done so as to help us commemorate some things and celebrate some others. Its important to understand the times that we lived in. The lived i lived during these times. And id like to start with april 12, 1963, and then id like to walk us up through some events that will bring us to the signing of th...
June 20, 2024
As the london eye. A bloody good time had by all, im certain. All right. In other major story it was not a good time for lawmakers in the Senate Working through the night to reverse the effects of the fiscal cliff. And a vote came in the wee hours of the new years and Tahman Bradley has more on this lastditch session. Kind of ruined some politicians night, didnt it . Reporter exactly right. Happy new year to you, paula and john. The senate bill passed in the wee hours of the morning with overwhe...
June 20, 2024
As the london eye. A bloody good time had by all, im certain. All right. In other major story it was not a good time for lawmakers in the Senate Working through the night to reverse the effects of the fiscal cliff. And a vote came in the wee hours of the new years and Tahman Bradley has more on this lastditch session. Kind of ruined some politicians night, didnt it . Reporter exactly right. Happy new year to you, paula and john. The senate bill passed in the wee hours of the morning with overwhe...
June 20, 2024
Happening on this last did of 2012. Not only the fiscal cliff, but secretary of state Hillary Clinton in the hospital. Well get to that in just a moment. A diagnosis of a blood clot. But some questions still remaining. We have some weather stories, including the latest on this horrific tour bus crash on an icy highway in oregon. It was packed full of tourists. And it skidded off the road, leaving nine dead, many more injured. And the live shot from New York Presbyterian Hospital where secretary ...
June 20, 2024
Firearm obviously in defense of his life and his partner and shot in the direction of the suspect, striking the suspect. He was pronounced dead at valley medical center. When alicia gomez stopped to pick up her daughter she feared the worst. When i pulled up i said god, no, you know, it was right in front of the apartment complex. I didnt make contact with my daughter and i was scared for her safety. Reporter investigators are questioning the two University Police officers. Another alarming poin...
June 20, 2024
Inaudible Monitoring Committee and i became aware of the Committee Vacancy just prior to those nominations to the Monitoring Committee. I had withdrawn my application and you had gone ahead and forwarded 5 nominees to fill 6 seats. I am going through the local homeless coordinating board for a separate seat on the shelter and monitoring board to that body. Working on both these committees will not really impact my time a great deal. The Committee Meetings are in the evening, i live within the di...
June 20, 2024
Philanthropic community when i joined talking about community diversity, Kaiser Permanente also participated here. They are active and more than just talking about diversity. They are active in putting resources together to join this and fund this 5 million refresh of the plaza. I want to thank walter, the architect. Of course hes famous in his own right. I have known that since my days at dpw but hes taken a refresh on this whole sight and gotting together with partners along with preservation ...
June 20, 2024
It out and it may be bumpy next week and after that we could get on with it. And then, another challenge that the school sites have expressed the concern in and we only have a limited number of support staff and we have nine staff to support 104 sites, and so the way that we are going to work around that is that rpa is going to have the staff available on the phone and the help desk will be trained on how to answer the questions and plus, we will take the advantage of the help desk and we will d...