Global news 24 hours a day powered by our 2400 journalists in more than 150 news euros around the world. From the Bloomberg News bureau in new york, im Mark Crumpton. Bloomberg west is next. Emily im emily chang and this is a special edition of bloomberg west in boston where we are surrounded by 1500 government and Civic Leaders for the annual meeting of the chamber of commerce. Come to those turning in tuning in on television and those here in boston. A huge discussion topic is the growing tech infrastructure. We will hear from the person who helped spearhead the move to boston, mayor marty walsh. First, we want to begin with biotech because while boston may have fallen behind look on valley in internet startups, it is holding its own in this sector. Massachusetts gets more than triple li na of funding from the National Institute of health in california. Venture Capital Funding also spiked to a record 2 billion last year. The area we want to focus on his cambridge, home to 180 Tech Co
The governor released her executive budget plans opting to fund the Top Priorities in the state. The governor is proposing to spend 345 million on roads, that is including the potential 10cent gas tax that could go into effect over the next three years if a roads bill is passed and she included 165 million in Flood Recovery and more dhec dam inspectors, 300 million for education reform and raising base student costs by 165 million and investing in school buses and technology and wants to cut income taxes from 7 to 5 over the next 10 years for all south carolinians across the board and an additional tax cut for military retirees. Being able to cut our debt in half, double our reserves, that means something, it means South Carolina. Going through a thousand year lot of states, it didnt wipe us out. I want everybody to take credit for it, they helped us to get to that place. Keep in mind these are just the governors recommendations for lawmakers as they work on the budget. Once they pass
Ther stops on cspans cities tour at cspan. Org local content. American history tv every weekend on cspan 3. Monday night on the ommunicators, tim wong, founder and ceo on the technology that predicts outcome to congressional legislation using data mining and artificial intelligence. Analytics get something more granular. On a break down legislative by legislative basis to see how likely they are to bill. Or a certain theres a lot of opportunities for attorneys and lobbyists to go in and say let me look at the bill. Here are cosponsors, the people most likely to vote least for the people likely to vote for it. You start to develop a strategy the rms of getting information that you need. Raw industry or intelligence or human intelligence on the ground and able to combine those two things should be able to get to the answers that you would like to. Et monday night, 8 00s tern on the communicators on cspan 2. Each week, American History artifacts takes you to museums and historic places. C
Next, inside the u. S. Capitol to learn about the history of the house of representatives page program. The Program Began in the early 1800s and continued up until 2011 when due to technological and staff changes, pages were no longer critical to the legislative process and the program was ended. One of the oldest parts of the capitols house wing. History going back to the 1800s. We dont know when the first pages served in the house. The tradition of having messengers and a page is simply an messenger, an errand runner. In u. S. Legislative practice it usually has involved in the u. S. Congress young boys between age 8 and 16. Who would run all kinds of errands for members of congress, on the floor, rounding up members, things of that nature. We have a couple of accounts that kind of place it in the 1800s when the first pages young boys, served in the house as pages. There was an eyewitness account of the house door keeper thomas crackston on the floor with his nephews. And these were
It was heavy in san rafael at i5 interchange highway 101. A downpour. The windshield wipers going like crazy. In San Francisco at broadway and embarcadero in the financial district, heavy rain. Just a couple of hours ago. In orinda we now have dry conditions. That is the issue. Here and there. Coming and going. It will be scattered throughout the day. A situation where you need your rain gear ready. If you walk out the door and see it is not raining do not assume it will not rain. It was dumping a couple of hours ago. Crews are on high alert ready to spend to problems such as the mudslide that just occurred because of the very wet conditions. The heavy rain did not cause the problems of last woke but there was damage like this tree that came down at Golden Gate Park falling on to a bicycle path. No one was hurt. A rain caused a rock slide tumbling down Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. There was no reported damage. This is near where rocked smashed a car and threatened a Building Three