Page 2 - Program Classes News Today

Nice to have you here. Thank you for having us. Tell us about the inception of citymeals first, back in 1981. What was the founding concept behind it . Gael greene, a restaurant critic, read an article in the New York Times about what wanted to know what the city was doing for homebound elderly on thanksgiving and realized that they werent doing anything for that weekend. And so she rallied her friends and along with james beard, former restaurateur. And they raised 35,000 to feed 6,000 homeboun...

Commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards well expect commissioner wu to be absent commissioners, the first item on your agenda is consideration of items for continuance item 1 harrison street conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance until october 8, 2015, and further commissioners under our re...

Redefining formula retail use is proposed until november 19, 2015, i have no speaker cards any Public Comment on the two items proposed for continuance not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner antonini before i hopeful for the continuance up wanted to note 1532 did we originally continue this. We continued it because of the late hour on the 17 to the first, the project sponsor is asking for one more week. That being said i propose to continue item one until october 8th and 10 to oc...

Of nourishing meals and companionship to more than 18,000 of new york citys homebound elderly folks. Joining us in the studio from citymeals on wheels are vivienne oneill, the director of volunteer programs, and louise kramer, a citymeals volunteer. Nice to have you here. Thank you for having us. Tell us about the inception of citymeals first, back in 1981. What was the founding concept behind it . Gael greene, a restaurant critic, read an article in the New York Times about what wanted to know ...

While theres 2,537 wells wit one mile of the proposed pipeline, including 39 public water supply wells, 20 private wells within a hundred feet of the pipeline rightofway. If the pipeline were to leak near the aquifer, the Tar Sands Oil would quickly seep into the millions of people. Minate water ive already shown you a spill in arkansas. These spills happen. Now, if a spill occurred near any of these aquifers, it would be tragic. Local residents know the harm the pipeline could cause. Ill show...

But im proud of the work this government has done to devolve spending powers and real powers to local authorities through the city deals, the devolution of some Decision Making and spending to local enterprise partnerships through the local growth deals, i think these are really good moves. Im delighted that were going to see in Greater Manchester a new Greater Manchester metro there. This is great news. But i dont see the need for a lot of extra tax power, no, im a bit skeptical of it. But who ...

But im proud of the work this government has done to devolve spending powers and real powers to local authorities through the city deals, the devolution of some Decision Making and spending to local enterprise partnerships through the local growth deals, i think these are really good moves. Im delighted that were going to see in Greater Manchester a new Greater Manchester metro there. This is great news. But i dont see the need for a lot of extra tax power, no, im a bit skeptical of it. But who ...

Eastern. That to some of the people involved in congress back in the 1830s to 1860s. Henry clay, stephen douglas, these people were struggling desperately to try to work out compromises to keep the union of avoid it splitting up. I think we have a lot of talented younger members. It is not just, by the way, mrs. Pelosi. I think she has been a great leader and she is really good at raising money, but that is not my forte. I was never good at that. Traininghave to start younger people and bringing...

Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, thanks for joining us. A major earthquake registering 6. 0 struck Northern California...

Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, thanks for joining us. A major earthquake registering 6. 0 struck Northern California...