In terms of having a good independent bookstore, there are a lot of great big readers here. There is a population of excellent writers. The city has a little bit more literary vibrancy that people are aware of. Mayoro former los angeles being mayor his brother had been arrested, and he wanted to know who was the best criminal lawyer in las vegas. Fellow said, who is the best call oscar. Aid, on American History we visit the center for Gaming Research and we learn about how the industry has evolved. Bylas vegas was established what is now the Union Pacific lakeoad what was the salt railroad. They bought a ranch and decided they would lay a town out here. And we visit the National Atomic testing museum. The site was established in 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices. From the 1950s to the 1990s, mushroom clouds could be seen from miles. Watch the cspan cities toward today at noon eastern on booktv or sunday at 2 00 on cspan 3. Tour, workingies with our cable affiliates, and visiting
Appointees with three board of supervisors appointees still allows the mayor to ensure systemic kind of overall approach to support mr. Risk and and the staff leadership. I think by having three board of supervisors appointees it also addresses a lot of the concerns that doctors come to supervisor yees office but our office and others. Its a good way to having checks and balances that its a reasonable effort to move forward so that its a shared response organizers from the Mayors Office in our mta director and his staff, but also the board of supervisors supporting that Broader Vision for the city is. One supporter supportive of supervisor yees advocate under weaver bunch of other things that could potentially placed the charter measures and other measures on the ballot and michael is looking all these Different Things as they move forward as well but am supportive of trent supervisor yees leadership honest thank you. I dont know. If director peskin wants to say anything, if you did i
Years, the independent panels that review the Job Performance of judges named 10 that werent good enough to stay on the bench. Want to guess how many voters fired . Only 3. On average, if your Performance Review says you shouldnt be a judge anymore, you win reelection with 54 of the vote. Voters keep sending judges with failing reviews back to their 6figure jobs paid with our tax dollars, jobs that decide who gets custody of kids, what works. If this surprises you, you are not alone. Will it surprise you . Yes, it does. I dont think that that is the way it should work. Former state Supreme Court justice, rebecca, is an expert on reviewing judges. My suspicion is that those voters didnt even know that there was a donotretain recommendation or didnt care. This years reviews come in repeatatizeself, they e repeats it wont make a difference. Last years judge vallerie hanes included a hostile environment in her courtroom, didnt understand her poor marks, leaving little reason to expect impr
Migrants. To get your thoughts on this. What do you think should the iraqi and more syrian refugee. 2027488000 and republicans and 2027488002. Join the conversation at or email m cspan us. Well get to your thoughts in just a minute. The phone is matthew Diplomatic Writer with the associated press. Whatadministration say yesterday refugees ining more this country . Good morning. O secretary of state kerry and the top u. S. Diplomat for migration issue went up to the hill to outline what to do and what theyre going to do is increase worldwide total number of refugees that the u. S. Ill accept in the next fiscal ear which would be october 1st from 70,000 to 75,000. Increase. But secretary kerry left open back with a come higher number that could rise by thousands. Refugee is recommended for resetlment around the states accepted theyre rigorous background check because there are competing interests here desired but also legitimate concerns. The any talk of simplify vetting process, the res
Hearing on our proposed budget for fiscal year the next two fiscal years fiscal 1 5 1 5 16 15, 16. We introduced a number of proposals which Commission Voted to forward the Mayors Office at the time. However we had not fully plushed out what the proposal will be for our i. T. Program. We did leave some allocated balance, and the specific program was not called out in those prior hearings. We committed it . Back to you this month to finalize that proposal. As we had discussed previously at prior hearings the budget that we have proposed complies with the instructions from the Mayors Office. We have met the instructions. We have covered a year to general fund savings target. We funded our increases internally within the budget. We have restored significant plan reduction to Community Programs that was adopted in previous budget. What we are moving forward with today is a set of some minor adjustments to previous initiatives. Then some Additional Savings proposals that would increase pot