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Despite what has been said about the u. S. Health care system, the bottom line really is that it is superb in both access and quality of care. What about cost . Cost is an issue. It is welldocumented, and i concur with the documentation. The u. S. Is the most expensing system for health care in the world, that is percapita or any other metric. In this israeli the major problem with the system that should be at where their forms are direct. Green down costs. Dr. Alice, some of the reforms have be...

Host and this week on the communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association, matt polka. Mr. Polka, what is the American Cable Association . Guest thanks, peter. Nice to be here again. Nice to be here with you, lynn, as well. The American Cable Association is unique in the fact that we represent many smaller Cable Operators across the country, and everyone always asks me, are there still small Cable Operators left . In fact, there are nearly 900 of them in eve...

Why my constituents elected me to be here. These are places populated by the people who dont ask for much from the government, they pay their taxes, pay their bill, get up in the morning, send their kids to school and go to work and come back home in the evenings and go to ballgames and go to parents house and take care of their relative, take care of their neighbors, look after their school, look after their communities and what they want is just a government that leaves them a alone, that does...

There are systems in the building that you may remember that i mentioned this earlier, a fire depression and the emergency lights when the power goes out and the emergency power and these systems called evacuation rescue and recovery, and their survivebility is critical if the building is in a crisis mode. What they did was go back and look at every single space that had a critical system in it, the building is long and this is one floor and all of those little colored dots represent a critical ...

Supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. Madame [khrerblg ] item no. 1, please. Item no. 1 is Charter Amendment for the november 4th, 2014 election to extend the Childrens Fund for 25 years and increase the setaside and create our children our Families Council and require preparation of a children and families plan, and create a city rainyday reserve and school rainyday reserve out of existing rainyday reserve. Thank you. Colleagues this has an been a very, very collaborative process an...

Thank you for your time and your consideration. My name is [speaker not understood] im the supervising attorney at the evictions defense collaborative. It is the primary agency that helps tenants respond to their eviction lawsuit. We do have some limited resource he to help some tenants, but the vast majority of tenants we do not have the resources to represent. In my role as the supervising attorney i oversee a lot of the litigation that happens and im very aware of the value that attorneys add...

Evictions, but there is a dearth of attorneys who get paid to represent tenants who cant afford it. But on the flip side there are attorneys that make a living on representing landlords to evict tenants. Lets just level the playing field. Really consider what it would take to make sure that there is the proper full scope legal representation because at the end of the day were not asking to increase the number of housing units. Were not asking to build huge development. Were just asking for peopl...

So, these organizations, the eviction defense collaborative, mother brown, power, casa justa, coalition on homelessness, we heard from the San Francisco Bar Association, the Asian Pacific islander legal outreach, tenants together, the Tenants Union, the tenderloin housing clinic, Legal Assistance for elderly, the housing rights committee, the Bayview Hunters Point Community Legal Services, and then any other member of the public who would like to speak. Please go ahead. Thank you very much. Good...

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Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 5 news. Blown to smithereens when a train carrying fracked oil derailed. Tonight we learned theres a plan to ship this highly explosive fuel right through the bay area and city leaders are powerless to stop it. Christin ayers has some exclusive new information tonight. Reporter on bustling Fourth Street in berkeley people shopping and the occasional blast of a passing amtrak train, but very soon that amtrak could be joined by another very differen...