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Kathleen rooney and miles harvey talk about how they approach Historical Research for fiction and nonfiction work, at 6 00 p. M. On the civil war, scott hartwig, discussing his research on the battle of antietam. At 8 00 p. M. , Patrick Allitt discusses richard nixon, his National Security adviser henry kissinger, and their key Foreign Policy initiatives. And former u. S. Senator sam nun, watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Up next on American History Tv University of minnesota pro...

A little fog in oakland. Not much. Santa rosa 53. Embarcadero headed northeast with a northwest at three. 55 degrees. Not that bad. West southwest oakland, Berkeley Hills. New pekin mount diablo do north at 2143. Mount diablo with gusts almost up to 50. Not in fact real are warmer. San jose cooler. This is wind driven. A little bit of breeze. A dry air mass and it will be sunny today. Over to sal now on a monday. Anything you want to get to . Still pretty quiet out there. We dont have a lot goin...

Temptation to pack the local parks, but that might be easier said than done this is a live look outside looking out over downtown San Francisco temperatures were higher than usual today, making parks and. Any open space is a welcome sight for those out on the memorial day weekend and the warming trend around the bay area will continue in the days ahead with some areas expected to see scorching temperatures some into the triple digits. Lot of people across San Francisco got out to enjoy the sunso...

Been watching the celebrations across the world from new zealand to Sydney Australia to pyongyang, north korea and hong kong. Celebrations were held all across the globe and several more will take place before we ring in the new year on the west coast. Tens of thousands of people will kick off the new year in San Francisco with a Fireworks Show at midnight. In the past, Treasure Island has been a popular spot to see the show. You may have done that yourself but it will not be this year. Tremont ...

Photographs, she recreates Mister Hoovers final trip to his west branch, iowa, childhood home. Todays presentation is called hoovers last trip home. Our speaker, lynn smith, the audiovisual archivist at the hoover president ial library and museum since november of 2000 whose previous Work Experience includes serving as Department Supervisor at the university of denver and archivist for the u. S. Forest service in montana. She is a certified archivist and holds a ba in history from the university...

The population increases, no matter what we will not send more trucks on the road than that number so the two changes to the contract were the term and the trucks. Those were the two things that were changed so next steps. The department has the authority to sign such an agreement, and once it is signed that triggers an action that then allows another appeal of ceqa which may come before you. We expect when you come back in september, and then if youre comfortable with that analysis and then we ...

In and one being double than the other. What we liked about the contract thats before you and that we support is the ability to lock in a longterm rate that is low, and free us up to do what we want to do which is get to zero waste because thats the solution. We hope this is the last landfill contract we have to sign because getting to zero means nothing, no more hauling waste,ing in except putting it back in the stream and going to the green and the blue and this contract will give us the abili...

Us to go and sell the program to the whole city. We need jobs and a break on their energy bills and that kind of thing. You need to be able to adopt in the lower income communities such as much solar as highincome communities. So that buildout piece is important and i think we need a hearing about that either at lafco or the board. I want to chime in on public bank. That, if you look at what is happening in greece right now, it becomes really clear that the Global Private financing and Banking S...

Competitive rfq process to look for qualified respondents. In 2009 we did a public rfp and got two bids and one from recology and one from Waste Management. We looked at other environmental factors which came out fairly evenly but the thing that was very striking was the difference in cost which would translate to over 100 million for ratepayers over the lifetime of this contract. So recology was selected by the panel. Lawsuits were filed. Lawsuits were dismissed and over the course of the next ...

Item 1 hearing hearing to consider the release of reserved funds, Arts Commission to build out the secure basement Storage Space and related location costs for the citys civic Art Collection. Great. We have tom mckinney here. Good morning supervisors. As you know it will move to the Veterans Building in september of this year and our request is for the release of reserve funds for 50,000 to complete the move of the Art Collection to the war memorial. We are glad that the Capitol Planning Committ...