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Well hear from john thomas from dpw. Good morning. John thomas public manager with boks department of public works. I have a few slides to highlight the levels of work we have under way by the department. Focusing on the work demonstrated areas while coordinating with other city departments. These include sidewalk inspection, street resurfacing, curb ramp construction throughout the city and all of those while trying to implement the strategy and the better streets plan. In 2011 the road and pavement bond. The condition at that time was at 64 and we plan to make it 72 citywide and we have main...

That we are expecting. Looking at the portfolio projects that parks and recreation opens and maintains in the eastern neighborhood. We came up with a list of priority projects based on feedback from the community and also our own understanding of the general condition of those cites and the extent to which they are also have been unable to generate funds for those projects and there are parks that need to be renovated and parks that weve been able to renovate with the trusted land and other partners and there is others that we have not been able to find other funding for providing. Some of tho...

Chemical spill . Charleston. Health officials warning people not to drink, bathe, or even cook with the water. Jonathan thousands of people affected by the spill. What are they doing for water . Reporter well at this point, fema and the Emergency Management groups brought in 12 big tankers of water. But if you go into some of these Grocery Stores bottled water is hard to come by. We are told that some 300,000 people have been told not to use their tap water, only to flush or in an emergency situation like fire. But authorities are trying to figure out how big of an issue this is. This all came...

2. 0. These are some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to the washington post. Thank you for that warm introduction. It is a pleasure to be here with you at rand. I am going to talk today about something that has unconsciously and indirectly led to a tyranny of experts. Lets call that the technocratic approach to Economic Development. The idea that poverty is the technical problem. So that for example there are a variety of Technical Solutions. One involves a chemical on walls of peoples houses, on the inside walls to kill mosquitos that kill malaria. Technical solution th...

And indirectly led to a tyranny of exports. Lets call it that technocratic approach to Economic Development it is the idea that poverty is really just a set of technical problems. For example, from malaria there are a variety of Technical Solutions. One of them is bring at chemical called pyrethrum on the walls of peoples houses, on the inside of walls. That is a solution. Helps fight malaria. Another technical solution might be to convert land to higher value uses like food scraps that have low value to the great products that have higher value. Now let me tell you why the technical approach ...