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Litter pickup. We now have over a thousand adopt a block captains that are responsible for adopting blocks around the city of edmonton for picking up litter and they each have crews of 4 to 5 thousand people so so we have four to five thousand people picking up litter. We link nonprofit organizations with businesses and the businesses pay the nonprofit organizations 650 per summer to have the nonprofits pick up litter in the blocks surrounding their business. The advantage to that is, again, com...

Radio those are the people that are out there. Awesome. If anybody has compliment for San Francisco let me know because we can put that in right now. [laughter] alex, you live here. Hold on. Let me get over to you quickly and then well have you the one thing that i really got from catherines presentation that really touched me was she was telling us to go forward 2030 in term of technologies and looking back to today. But this conference with all the vendors we had here had an amazing impact on ...

Tack take a look at this, 20,000 shot. Bam that money going to help with his wifes cancer treatment. Dave will be here on the show tomorrow and thats an amazing shot, half court shot. Wow, no pressure, just your wifes medical treatment, 20,000. If you cant get enough log on to foxnews. Com for the after the show show which begins in moments. Brenda the bulls are off to the races. Blue chips, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday. New high after new high. And all those records coming despite all t...

Start for little children. Big oil, over little children. Instead of closing tax loopholes for corporations that shipped jobs overseas, 750,000 jobs will be lost here. Because of the sequester and the continuing resolution that contains the sequester and the fix were in because of the refusal of the Republican Leadership to close those loopholes. Instead of ensuring americans pay their fair share, our military readiness will be impaired. Unless the defense we have kids who wont get proper traini...

Seniors will be left to negotiate their premiums with Insurance Companies and Prescription Drug programs. They will be unable to afford those premiums. They will get sick and sicker and be forced to go into the hospital. Hospital costs will go up. Hospital costs cannot be recovered. Folks like my 74yearold mother who returned home from the hospital today will be unable to negotiate the necessary therapeutic care to reduce her overall cost in Health Care System and have any quality of life. I urg...

We have a School Litter Reduction Program that was started that year as well so we focus on educating schools on litter pickup in the city. In 2008 the program was expanded to include graffiti and 2008 was when our by law was amended requiringing Property Owners it remove graffiti from their property or face a 250 crime. The one success from our program was the council at that time looked at the idea that we cant hold citizens responsible if were not responsible ourselves, so they created our Ma...

[ theme ] bill good morning everybody. Thursday march 7. Ed for a to see you today. Welcome to the full court press here on current tv. What if the the big question is what if they predicted a blizzard and not one snowflake fell . Thats exactly what happened in washington, d. C. Yesterday. And somehow it fits this city of broken promises. There is another one. A great big one. Lets see on the news, president obama took some g. O. P. Senators, a whole gang of them out to dinner last night at the ...

It is very clear that the American People want a balanced approach for the deficit reduction. We have to make smart spending cuts. We can do that by closing tax loopholes and asking millionaires to pay a little bit more. That is basically what our proposal is and we will vote on it this afternoon. We want a balanced approach. That is what the American People want. By almost an 80 margin, that is what americans want. Even a majority of republicans want this. It is hard to comprehend. The only rep...

Property alone. We do enhanced clean up, we have a contractor that does some additional clean up on City Property as well as the clean up thats done by operational departments in the city. And interdepartment coordination is key. We have an operations department, Operations Committee thats made up of representatives from all the operations areas in the city and through that we coordinate all of our clean up on City Infrastructure and we have all of our complaints come in through 311, which is th...

The berth of the first publicly owned Transit System in the city, the San Francisco municipal railway. Hi, my name is sharon, im the graffiti project manager for the city of edmonton, canada. For some of you werent in my presentation earlier today ill go through what the city of edmonton is doing in terms of programming but then go through auditing and what we do. Capital city clean up brings cities together to create safe, clean inviting xhueplts and neighborhoods. Our motto is a clean and safe...