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Their babies for radiation exposure, as they continue to worry about the Fukushima Nuclear crisis. The people negotiating a free trade deal for the Asia Pacific Region say they are going to miss an important deadline. Ministers from the 12 countries at the talks say there wont be any agreement this year, but theyll push on with discussions in 2014. Over the course of this meeting, we identified potential landing zones for the majority of key outstanding issues in the text. We will continue to work with flexibility to finalize these text issues, as well as Market Access issues. The ministers re...

Public comment because we do have a lot of folks here today. There has been a lot of discussion about whether right now 30 years after 14b has gone into effect whether were really thinking aggressively enough in how we achieve our goals. There have been suggestions we ought to have citywide goals for lbe participation. So, for example, there have been some who have suggested a 40 goal of all City Contracting dollars staying with local business he. There has been other suggestions that we ought to set aside at least 10 of our contracting dollars exclusively for local competition and other busin...

Her department. So, i do under the concern. This is an area many people want to get transparency in this area. Im happy to work with you to hopefully work with mayor lee to get more transparency in this area because a lot of people want to know, again, how we spend our money, how the contract decisions are made. Let me make a couple other observations about this chart. It does look as supervisor avalos suggested, the ratios awarded to lbes seems high. When i read the report, this is looking at the ratio of contracts that are awarded, but not at the contract dollar awards. For example, for the ...

Its really an exponential effect of damage between the amount of rain we are seeing, the amount of storm surge we are seeing and the duration of it that we are seeing. It is easy in the first few hours after they pass where you say we dont see that much destruction. But it will take days to survey what happened. And there are areas we cant get to. We drove around a little bit today and we saw marinas decimated. That means peoples livelihoods taken away in addition to the homes most likely taken away. The Boat Captains are out here and they wont be able to make a dive living for a long time. Tu...

There any clarity from the white house what he means by revisiting the issue . Because it seems at odds. It is also at odds with the attorney general saying they were rescinding that program, so far no clarity from the white house on what the president may have been talking about. And frankly, anderson, that is probably cold comfort to the nearly 800,000 people who could be impacted by this challenge, holding out the possibility that maybe the president could make changes down the line, that maybe congress will get its act together and step up and pass an immigration bill. Look there is a lot ...