And activist Harry Belafonte. Stop and frisk in theonly the change iceberg of fixing a dickensian system. A National Broadcast exclusive. Lynne stewart is freed from prison after a federal judge ordered her compassionate release. Did you think this day would come . Yes, butw or other, not as wonderful, or suddenly. It is bursting on me. In the dungeons, and here i am in my beloved new york. Lynne stewart. We will speak to her about her time in prison as she battled cancer. All of that and more coming up. To democracy now, democracy now. Org, the war and peace report. Negotiators from the south sudan ethiopiat arrived in on wednesday after two weeks of violence that has left over 1,000 dead and tens of thousands displaced. Both sides have signed on to a ceasefire but clashes continue. The south Sudan Government has declared a state of emergency in two states where rebels are in control of the capital. South sudan foreign minister, Barnaba Marial benjamin, said his government is ready fo
And activist Harry Belafonte. Stop and frisk in theonly the change iceberg of fixing a dickensian system. A National Broadcast exclusive. Lynne stewart is freed from prison after a federal judge ordered her compassionate release. Did you think this day would come . Yes, butw or other, not as wonderful, or suddenly. It is bursting on me. In the dungeons, and here i am in my beloved new york. Lynne stewart. We will speak to her about her time in prison as she battled cancer. All of that and more coming up. To democracy now, democracy now. Org, the war and peace report. Negotiators from the south sudan ethiopiat arrived in on wednesday after two weeks of violence that has left over 1,000 dead and tens of thousands displaced. Both sides have signed on to a ceasefire but clashes continue. The south Sudan Government has declared a state of emergency in two states where rebels are in control of the capital. South sudan foreign minister, Barnaba Marial benjamin, said his government is ready fo
Thousands of veterans. I remember talking to eric when he was first hired. And he was saying at the end of five years we will have those claims down to 125 days with 90 per 90 accuracy. Since he has been in office we have reduce that by 24 . Since he has been in office we have reduced homelessness by 24 . Think also of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, we have a huge increase of evil coming into the ba of people coming into he va. No one denies that there are problems. If you talk to the Veterans Organizations, we held a hearing last week. The largest Veterans Organizations in the america, we asked if it is good Quality Health care, and without exception they said it is and it is getting better. I have criticisms options of shinseki, and i hope we will ddress that. I hope we can deal with that. But i dont think he should resign. A lot of Veterans Groups want him to resign. They want someone to blame this on. Rsh who . The v. A. Is one of them. Should federal workers be allowed to be ab
What is our first question . A sophisticated and granular take on the Veterans Department as anybody on the u. S. Senate hearings. Should the leader of the ,epartment, a retired general shinseki be fired . No. The da is a huge institution va is a huge institution. Everyone here has heard about the claims backlog. Thatpeople do not know is under bush we did claims by paper. An individual veterans could file this, multiply that by thousands of veterans. I remember talking to eric since when he was first hired. And he was saying at the end of five years we will have those claims down to 125 days with 90 per 90 accuracy. Since he has been in office we have reduce that b 24 y. Think also of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, we have a huge increase of evil coming into the ba of people coming into the va. If you talk to the Veterans Organizations, we held a hearing last week. Veteransst organizations in the america, we asked if it is good Quality Health care, and without exception they said i
Reflected in the contract approved by the board of supervisors, sha is here today to discuss this finding. Good morning, chairman breed, supervisors, dave corto, director of contracts for human services. Though we agree with the findings that our contract was silent about the closure on holid holidays, we did negotiate with the contractor early on that we would account for these hours by assigning straight time for those times. The holiday time was clearly not in the rate negotiated. We purposely decided on this term, to ensure that only Security Officers at that site would receive the holiday pay on the days that the city buildings were closed. Sorry, i am confused what you said. Let me explain a little further. So in this type of contract, you have a billing rate. A rate per hour that you are charged for Security Officers services. The holiday pay required by the ordinance was not paid in the billing rate accounted for the total hours in the contract. We accounted for straighttime ho