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Of evaluation of pg e street lights like the things for maintenance theyre probably not worth as much as pg e think theyre worth ms. Hail. The issue where you begin supervisor with the level of service im how have were going to make headway in asking the california puc to ask pg e to have performance goals and to report their maintenance activities on an annual basis im hopeful that will help but at the end of the day i suspect people wont be concerned about the level of service if their at the ...

Orbit. How this may be descending humans to mars. Good morning. Were live in San Francisco this morning. Work still being done. The clock is ticking to try to fix that big sinkhole ahead of the next storm thats moving in right now. Ktvus alex savidge is out there in the city this morning. Hes keeping an eye on that repair work. Hes also checking a number of places across the bay area that are still trying to recover from flooding caused by the last big storm and coming up in a couple of minutes ...

People wont be concerned about the level of service if their at the level you want in other words of ownership you know pg e has sold street lights to other cities the process for that is typically an negotiation between the city and the utility a precede at the california puc because from the regulate terrors prospective the owner of that set asset is pg e rate fairs to make sure that the rate pairs get appropriate value so far the asset so its the c p puc ultimately decides whether the prices ...

Puc ultimately decides whether the prices that pentagon and the city have negotiated is appropriate and that transaction can be appropriated at the state level its a road thats been traveled, if you will, by another cities weve pursue is in district 10 where most of the street lights are on pg e light poles and some recent examples where pg e has sold similar the cross arm and the limb and part of the street light not the pole thats a wood utility pole so we have ready examples when weve looked ...

Lender lloyds, posting a profit bigger than estimated. For more, lets bring in mark and richard. Richard, lets start with you. In terms of what lloyds is doing, this is better than expected. Richard it is. These numbers are pretty good. There are no items really below the line, which we werent expecting. There was a charge for the tsb. However making a 1. 2 billion pound profit after that is still pretty good. They also said they expect to beat their own guidance for profitability margins this y...

Least. Foreign secretary, quizzing you . Thank you rngs foreign secretary. Do you agree that peace keepers will be needed in libya . And, if so, has the u. N. Government made any commitments . We havent made any commitments. Weve discussed on friday and saturday. I think we recognized in discussing this European Union that there would be a strong expectation that the European Union would take the lead in providing peace keepers. That is not to say a military force to subdue the warring factions....

Hypnotic state where the people with guns are basically running the country are going bankrupt. I think there is calls for some moderate optimism. But i wouldnt put it any higher than that. I dont think to be an expert on libya. But those who are tell me that the principle protagonists. If people are really fighting over territory and money and oil. It is easier to find solutions which divide the riches. And this is a rich country. So i would be moderately optimistic, but no more than that. Caut...

Competition. We talked about brazil, canada argentina, mexico spain and vietnam. And ive seen some of those products in the market, rice for example, 25 cracked and broken, got to be sifted before it can be served in hotels and restaurants. It is cheap by the time it gets but by the time they fool with it the quality deteriorates. No doubt the strong dollar over the last several years has put some downward pressure on our exports, its made our products more price higher priced products. Cubans h...

There is not domestic you. Thank you so much. Right behind you. I noticed mr. Ornsteins pantheon of views that are still in congress favor mr. Lugar will be in a few. It seems once they are on their way out or out the door, they say all the right things. When they are continuing to run, Olympia Snowe is another great example. What would you suggest we do as a public for others do to encourage politicians in office to the right thing because the right thing to do . Tom, you can start. Im curious ...

The duke professor explores whether the social economic background of legislators affects their policy choices while in office. The program is about one hour. Host thanks for joining us. Whitecollar government, one thing that i just found out this morning because i was reading a book on my kindle is you have worked in various bluecollar jobs before you became an assistant professor. He wanted to talk about yourself and how you see your transition from working class. Do you see yourself come from...