Good evening and welcome to kqued newsroom, governor browns message was that the state is in the best financial shape in decades. They have new funding for schools and higher education. The plan also includes a whopping 11 billion to pay down debt incurred during the recession. But it did not take long for the critics to begin. Joining me is jill tucker, paul rogers, environment writer and managing editor for kqued science and john meyers political editor, joining us from the state capitol. John, lets begin with you, which programs and services will get the biggest boost and where there surprises . I think the surprise is the surplus. Especially when you look at the states finances over the last several years. Its been more than a decade that we had a surplus. Schools always get a lot. Jill has details on that. I think the big take away from all of this frankly is that this is probably a harder budget fight than when you dont have money. When you dont have money, the governor can stand
Went awry. Then we look at the crisis of Sexual Assault on campus. 2013, i was 2, tangled twice and raped by another student. I should have been kept safe. In fivees show one women are sexually assaulted in college. We will look at the white house s new efforts to protect students and speak to two women who were raped, one at Brown University, the other at tufts. You may be surprised by how the colleges reacted. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Oklahoma governor mary fallin has ordered a review of the states execution procedures following the botched lethal injection that induced a prisoners fatal heart attack. The prisoner, clayton lockett, had initially won a stay for challenging the secrecy surrounding the untested execution drugs. But fallin overruled oklahomas Supreme Court last week and ordered the execution to proceed. On wednesday, fallin defended the Death Penalty and appointed a cabinet member
Popularity. More on the big celebration. We got a bit of a party like atmosphere. Days of dead face painting. Shows us your face. As the party spill noose the street which is not officially closed. You look across the street. This sea of people has been going all night long, a lot of people coming down to honor the dead and take part in tradition. Once a year they gather. To make a connection between two worlds. Hole the memory of those who die. You couldnt pack more people on the streets than in the mission district. They gathered for the day of the dead procession. Its not halloween or carnival. Back to the mission. Dia de los muertos is steep in tradition. Its a celebration. I came back to town and its always been in my neighborhood. Its a time to connect. My uncle. To honor and remember loved ones lost. He passed away november 15th just a few weeks ago. Gone but not forgot 19 im happy were celebrating him, im sad hes left. Today many put in writing what they carry in their heart. I
Browsing for the public and no immediate access. Its 24 hours. And if then when you come on the second trip to look at the magazineseses, you have requested and you have to know what they are to request them and cant discover them serendipitously. If you then want a different edition to further your research, its another 24 hours. Of course for most people 24 hours can mean many days or even many weeks. The library is also policy identifying ~ uniformed folks including armed police who greet your eyes as you enter at the library. The unfortunate, if you can leave up, please, what i have here. All of these thing serve to spoil the librarys function as a welcoming place and as a place where people feel safe. Certainly we want safe and secure libraries. We dont want what somebody calls a militarization [speaker not understood] accessible by the public. Supervisors, my name is francisco de costa. You supervisors want to give us three minutes. Now you give us two minutes. Im here to remind
Spoil the librarys function as a welcoming place and as a place where people feel safe. Certainly we want safe and secure libraries. We dont want what somebody calls a militarization [speaker not understood] accessible by the public. Supervisors, my name is francisco de costa. You supervisors want to give us three minutes. Now you give us two minutes. Im here to remind you that you represent the constituents of San Francisco. So, now a onebedroom unit goes for 3,500. And i know some of you are talking about it. But i want you to think outside the box. The academy of [speaker not understood] university has taken thousands of units, rental units, converted them into dormitories. [speaker not understood], what were you representatives doing . Theres one supervisor, he loves the units, you know, 100 square feet units where a man can sleep maybe with a dog full of fleas. Its this type of concern that you representatives have for the constituents. At one time your salaries were about 38,000.