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Riders from new york to boston than all other airlines put together. 50 of people that travel this distance. And between washington d. C. And new york city, amtrak carries twice as many passengers as all Airlines Come bind. Today it carries 75 of inner city travel letters between new york and washington. Amtrak has done all this with the threat of funding cuts and privatization especially of the profitable northeast corridor hanging over its head. We know that in other parts of the world privati...

To go about this repair technique what i mean by that is after you take all of the paint and primer off the dome, the cast iron of this generation flash rusts in eight hours. The timeliness of the application is important. We have to have those processes down very well so that we dont have to double do work. What about the scaffolding gives you mild concerns . The fact that it is a massive scaffolding project, i think getting that scaffolding here, lifting it up to the roof of the dome, and then...

The foreign intelligence context, could we be running up against constitutional problems . Yes, absolutely. There are many constitutional issues implicated here. There is obtaining content of peoples communications, which is obviously going to raise Fourth Amendment questions. There is the reasonableness requirement and how that would apply in a National Security setting. And there are not only the rights of u. S. Persons communicating with other u. S. Persons, which has been the primary focus i...

Digging actually channels along the river and widens the flow of the river. Can you give me an idea of just over the past 25 to 30 years of the budget dollars you have what has been the trend in maintenance spending and in environmental spending . Just in general figures or percentages . Well,ly answer by saying i dont know that i can give you that general percentage right off the bat. Theres always come back and get it, but certainly our civil emissions include our navigation, our hydropower fr...

Connell we have decided i will root for the cardinals and you will root for the red sox. Dagen i care. I am legitimately rooting for the red sox. Connell i will root for the cardinals. Dagen the red sox kind of anybody hard times. Connell no, they dont. We have a lot coming up to start us off on markets now. Nicole good morning. The Dow Jones Industrial average down 73 points. That is down about. 5 . The nasdaq composite down almost a full percentage right now. Today we have a mixed bag of earni...

To celebrate applause im calling it the neners. You know whats interesting . Ive been around city hall long enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. So, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represen...

From the public about. One if the new Program Areas we have is pedestrian lighting. The cities Better Cities plan was adapted and better street lights plan was, you know, express the cities interest in encouraging pedestrian lights in corridors. As the chair mentioned, you know, those commercial corridors was improved pedestrian left to right become more active spaces so it helps the city economically so in following the deposition of the better street light plan excuse me. My staff and i presen...

Thats demanded by a policy like this is im sorry, what kind of bags . I saw you shaking your head. [laughter] i didnt catch what you said. I told you i was dating myself. I didnt know either he. A bod abag. Bod abag. It has a ~ cap and you can fill it up, it comes with strings controlled by your shoulder. [speaker not understood]. You might have seen it in old movies. [laughter] but there are solutions. These kinds of efforts engender some resistance and also a lot of opportunities for solutions...

Language that i just described. And city officers and departments as they are trying to decide whether certain events or certain leases would they would permit the allowance of plastic Water Bottles, they would be allowed during that process to use these standards of undue hardship, practical difficulties, other circumstances that warrant granting a waiver, health, safety, welfare, i think the standards are pretty clear here. And that would be, you know, certainly the circumstance that you descr...

Can you just let me know whats happening there . So, in our interior facilities, thats a pretty easy a lot of parks dont have right. In our landscapes, its a little more challenging. I actually have not looked closely at the substudent ordinance, but i believe there is lack wa in there requiring us in Capital Projects over a certain amount to continue to do that ~. It is our goal, as you know from participating in many of our community meetings, there is covering associated with costs, but it is...