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That interview is sat 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Michele flournoy is our guest on this weeks q a. In government, youre dealing with the daily tyranny of the inbox. Youre focused on the crisis of the day. Part of my responsibility as undersecretary of defense was representing the secretary of defense on the socalled deputies committee, which is sort of the senior level group thats working through the issues, developing options for the principals and the president. A lot of Crisi...

Agency, dea, to try to get scheduled narcotics on to electronic prescribing. And after years of bureaucratic battle, finally the regulations came out. I think that facilitates via electronic prescribing Prescription Drug monitoring, when you no longer have to go and ask for the paper scripts from individual doctors or from individual pharmacies, you can look at a database and you can see, wait a minute this, fellow is a podiatrist. Why are they prescribing oxycodo oxycodone . They prescribed 500...

State university and the university of south dakota law school. From 1973 through 1990, he was a states attorney and prosecuted hundreds of felony cases. He served as the chief Deputy Attorney general for south dakota. In 2002 was elected t eed the s Dakota Attorney general. He has been a judge since then. He created the 24 7 Sobriety Program you will hear about today. Its a zero Tolerance Program for alcohol abusing offenders that give them a chance to dry out and walk right without going to pr...

And maury, long term coordinating Council Member, and so to start it off we are going to have tracy famp arona. To kick this off, okay . Thank you, supervisor, yee for that, great introduction. Thank you, supervisors for having this hearing today. I am one of the cochairs of the long term coordinating council and i have a very long name and so no one ever gets it right. On behalf of the council i want to thank you for holding this meeting. It is an advisory body to the mayor of 40 minutes and th...

Help pay for needy social spending and poverty reduction, thats important. But also as a very important part of improving governments and combatting corruption, you dont want to face a culture where every time you meet the tan tax man, youre having a long haggle as to how much of your tax payment will go to him or her and how much will go to the treasury. Youre wasting time negotiating with the tax man, you should be negotiating with your customers and suppliers. So there is a twofold impact the...

Afraid to save the life of a Family Member or a loved one because of legal liability. I recently introduced a bill called the opiate overdose reduction act. Its a simple solution to a problem. It extends protections to people who step in to save the lives of a person who is overdosing by administering a drug and that we need a National Good samaritan law so that people will step in. How many lives do you think would be saved if we had such a law . We know one of prime issues why people overdose ...

Coordinating council can be better communicated to the city and the county, public and the mayor and the supervisors and there is a lot of work done by the council over the years, and the message needs to be gotten out, and this effort from the communication plan, which is voted as an action plan, i hope that you, and the commission can have a copy or see a copy it is going to dove tail in the project in terms of the town hall forms, as well as you know, the external scan and this is going to le...

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Coordinating council can be better communicated to the city and the county, public and the mayor and the supervisors and there is a lot of work done by the council over the years, and the message needs to be gotten out, and this effort from the communication plan, which is voted as an action plan, i hope that you, and the commission can have a copy or see a copy it is going to dove tail in the project in terms of the town hall forms, as well as you know, the external scan and this is going to le...

I think that. inaudible and i have to look with inaudible for over 14 years, and mainly the Chinese Community and also the api, and i was a Mental Health counselor working with the seniors and providing Mental Health services and as i became a director. And i am still working with a senior. And maybe, in the community, and for inaudible to inform the community, and also, it is okay for our failed, senior, especially when we have a transition, from a building, that has to help us to see the bette...