Pedestrian activity and long with transit and keeping people on the sidewalk and moving. I want to make sure from my personal perspective that we do everything we can to give Small Business a chance to keep opening in San Francisco. I love this idea of the data that shows that San Francisco retail is still thriving. I think we are probably doing better than most in the country, but i think some of those who are in the landlord business and maybe in the retail business, feel the pressure of filling space and feel the pressure of filling awkward space. Some of the foot plates are very large, and some are teeny tiny with no elevators in them. I always throw a little bit of caution when we put out policy that covers blanket sort of every building possible. There are different scenarios. If you draw a rectangle of a skinny, small building in union square that maybe has a gallery on the third floor and hair salon on the second floor next to a very large any one of the macys or Neiman Marcus
Wanting to side of wanting to preserve what we have and how important it is. I also think that and when we talk residential to office theres been a profound effect on retail in the Union Square Area and its temporary. Believe it or not it will end some day theyll get it finished and i want to make sure we dont let that and i saw whats going on a temporary basis. Thank you so much it was great and i look forward to seeing how we proceed. Commissioner richards. I think he covered it theres so much retail just beyond the commercial districts as well as the sea districts. One of the things that perplexes me and it sounds weird with this new microphone i can hear myself better and i dont like the way i sound we have a have a high [indiscernible] of 12 to 15 and we just got another notification of another business going out of businesses but were not seeing rents come down and our c. B. D. Did a survey of why is that and they found contrary to what we would think would be an economic lens pe
Savage, Supreme Court correspondent for the los angeles times. Host professor Kenji Yoshino you have written a very interesting very thoughtful account of the 2010 trial in San Francisco where to couples challenged californias ban on samesex marriage. This was a trial that neither side wanted. Tell us why you decided to go back and write a book now. Guest at david first of all thank you so much for doing this interview. Its my great pleasure to be here today. I really got into thinking about this trial after chief judge ron walker issued his 136 page opinion with findings of fact on august the fourth of 2010 and i looked at that opinion and as somebody who has been working in the gay rights feel this opinion but different in kind from anything i had seen before. Its just thoughtfulness generally and so i asked my library and to pull the transcript of the trial and she came up with it in 13 volumes 2000 page transcript of the trial in closing arguments. When i first started reading it i
The best of intentions, plenty of people say theres nothing reparative or therapeutic in what they endure. I was manipulated into believing i could change my Sexual Orientation. Instead i was subjected to terrible abuse that mirrored the assault i experienced as a young person. What i can tell you is conversion therapy does not work. My family and i have wasted thousands of dollars and many hours on this scam. Thats heim levin, one of four men filing a suit against a new jersey Counseling Center called jonah, jews offering new alternatives for healing. These four men and the Southern Poverty Law Center which is representing them claim the center falsely offered cures and used tactics that sound less like therapy and more like mental torture. Things like being made to undergo individual and Group Sessions in the nude. Being made to cuddle other same sex clients and counselors. Being made to beat an effigy of ones mother. Go to gyms and bath houses in order to be nude, the lawsuit claims
Five dunleavy t five taliban detainees. They say they were afraid about leaks. Bergdahl is recovering at a u. S. Military hospital in germany. A senior official said he was promoted and wants to be recognized by the rank of private first class. More than a week after the release, hes still not talked to his parents. According to reports he isnt emotionally ready. Heres what his mom said two days after he was freed. Im so looking forward to seeing your face after these last five and a half years. Long, long years. And to giving you a great big bear hug and holding you in my arms again. Never wanting to let you go. Five years is a seemingly endless long time. But youve made it. Well, they have not spoken publicly since that News Conference. Now the fbi is investigating threats the parents received in emails. We have a report of report and haley, idaho. Jim, since his release, there have been a lot of obviously different reports about the conditions. That sergeant beg dal held in. You hav