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Units decision to strike. Weve bargained in good faith and prepared to continue to do so. In february, two workers were injured during a chemical spill. Tesoro denied entry, but relented a month later there is another spill and another worker, injured. Tesoro is notorious being one of the most unsafe refineries here. They would like to join the united steel workers. If willing to have us well be willing to join them we understand it means a safe community. This has been a challenge. That is prob...

Just north of concord are striking because of an issue they say is about safety. Theyre working now but only for a few more days were live tonight with the story. Laura . This refinery is in the process of shutting down and will take several days once it does shut down, well see the pickets out here in front of the refinery. Well start to see workers walk out at other refineries. If the oil industry and united Steel Workers cant settle differences hundreds of workers could follow suit. We havent...

Enough space so for example salesforces hopefully going to be moving into a new office tower within the next couple of years and even bloomberg is opening r d facility south of market being near the tech corridor door. So medical Research Biotechnology along with social media and apps are really fueling this group growth. Along with university of california, San Francisco medical school is expanding its research and clinical footprint. Let me briefly mention a few others. Austin the second and i...

Year. Yes. [applause] in a moment youre going to see what a remarkable accomplishment that is as i go through some of these metrics. What i would like to do is acknowledge my coauthors who are with us today. Minority rights and whose here. Could you please stand. Shes here back in the waiting. She did our work of putting the metrics together and a lot of the analysis and also join us as armand petrosians, is an adjunct fellow with the institute. He projected two years ago that San Francisco woul...

Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] we want to thank all of you for coming. We have a youth basketball camp for kids here who have been so patient. See us at the chinese new years game. 366. I think these guys have a lot more in store. Thanks a lot. We appreciate it. We came to seven straight about 10 years ago. 7th street about 10 years ago. The environment is huge. It is stronger than willpower. Surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge am...

Not only those that have grown here but now those that have started here have become tycoons in the business community. Salesforce twitter yelp and so many others. You know this amazing story also says to us that we are excited and im excited because it isnt just one sector. This is the thing that i will keep over and over again. Industries like healthcare, click biotech, tourism, construction, manufacturing and more but we also see technology very strongly woven into all these different industr...

Businesses investors, Industry Associations Economic Development agencies, academics, Public Policy groups, monitor and evaluate performance in where they work, and where they live, relative to the rest of the country. And as weve already noted, its no surprise were releasing this today in San Francisco, so San Francisco is number one this year. Yes. [applause] in a moment youre going to see what a remarkable accomplishment that is as i go through some of these metrics. What i would like to do i...

There are other measures to measure the concentration of diversity and its really a way to look at the Community Involvement in the socalled knowledgebased economy. This is a chart that shows employment growth relative to the peak of this recession relative to others and what youll notice is that this recovery has been relatively mild compared to previous ones. And overall job growth in the country really determine some of the pattern of regional growth around the country. Now the good news is t...

Mar you just explained the technology you said if a gps system a a driver has to elaborately allow their systems to be tracked to know how many miles your gone. Theres a range that has processed and consciousness in oregon you asking can selfreport and a or pay. Fee and less tracking engages combajz about it reaches up to a gps whether youre on a public or private road and only charge you for the public or private road but if you have the gps and have that level of engagement with excuse me. Wit...

Convene this. I was actually down at their summit calorie florida and los angeles last month speaking about innovation in cities and giving some examples actually in San Franciscos something this thing he has done amazingly well that is resulted in transition to becoming one of the absolutely top model economies not only in the country but in the world. So, after they heard my pitch they asked if they told me was going on and asked if id be willing to can being with them and reach out to mayor l...