Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and a production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated american staggering overdosed death rate. In 2017, more than 70000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 60 involve prescription opioids and illicit opioid such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older of abused opioid in 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americans died each day from an opioid openers. We did not know that some cost and disrupted lives or untimely deaths from widespread misuse of prescription and nonprescription opioids but we know from our family, our neighbors and our friend who bear the enduring lost loved ones that the opio crisis is not over. We must continue contending with this crisis. That being said, we made Great Strides over the past three years t
That goal. Also used very traditional enforcement included many directed Operations Supervisor mandelman mentioned and these directives enforcement operations are planned and target specific issues. Much of this directed operation come as a result of community feedback, city Agency Feedback and examination of high injury corridors. The Traffic Company did 164 directed operations between january and june. 57 percent focus on the 5 efforts and 41 percent focused in high injury corridor locations. Ime rur sure most have seen this before but the map on the left is the Vision Zero High Injury Network as of 2017. The places where the most serious traffic related injuries and fatalities occurred in the city. The map on the right is heat map of the collision locations over a 8 year period and as you see, most of the injuries remain true to the High Injury Network corridors. So, this map shows the traffic fatality crash loations from last year including the mode of transportation of victims. Ag
Good morning. Good morning and welcome to nashville and the southern festival of the books. Behind the curtain, money, politics and imperiled republic. We are fortunate today to have two authors who are really addressing some issues we deal with today. Weed to live in many ways in imperiled times and dealing with the concentration of economic power and political power, so again we are fortunate to have two very renowned speakers today after the session is over we will have a signing session that will take place on the war memorial section between the capital and library. We will go there and also have questions and answers, a q a session after the presentation this morning to your right there is a set of microphones and if you would like to ask questions of the authors to your right there is a set of microphones. Each speaker will speak about 15 or so minutes dealing with their books and then we will open it up to questions. If you could, you may want to take a moment to silence your c
[gavel] welcome to the regularly scheduled dawg 24 meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. First calling the roll commissioner andrews. Here. Commissioner hayon. [inaudible] commission hur. Here. Commissioner keane. Here. And all present and accounted for. Moving the secretary item on the agenda Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Do we have any members of the public who want to speak . Please come forward. Good afternoon chair hur and members of the commission. My name is Kathleen Courtney and reside on green street in San Francisco and owned and reseated at that location for the last 35 years. I have been out of the country for the last month, and therefore i was not returned home on thursday and therefore was not able to give my comments to Eileen Hansen who submitted a complaint about the alliance in connection with jobs with the work theyre doing against darren peskin. I am calling something that occurred to me on june 28 that i think reflec
The San Francisco Ethics Commission. First calling the roll commissioner andrews. Here. Commissioner hayon. [inaudible] commission hur. Here. Commissioner keane. Here. And all present and accounted for. Moving the secretary item on the agenda Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Do we have any members of the public who want to speak . Please come forward. Good afternoon chair hur and members of the commission. My name is Kathleen Courtney and reside on green street in San Francisco and owned and reseated at that location for the last 35 years. I have been out of the country for the last month, and therefore i was not returned home on thursday and therefore was not able to give my comments to Eileen Hansen who submitted a complaint about the alliance in connection with jobs with the work theyre doing against darren peskin. I am calling something that occurred to me on june 28 that i think reflects the egregious nature of what is going on. I am a profession