Algeria swears in a new president after an election few people wanted protesters rejected. As illegitimate so how will he manage his critics and can he ends months of demonstrations demanding political change this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. For the 1st time in 20 years algeria has a president who isnt. The former leader step down in april 1000 people rallied against his bid for a 5th term in office but it appears many people are also unhappy with the man taking over. A sworn in on thursday after winning last weeks election which had the lowest turnout in algeria as history at less than 40 percent the former Prime Minister was one of 5 candidates who all had ties with. To boone has offered to hold talks with protesters who for 10 months ive been calling for a complete overhaul of the political system he says the election put algeria back on the path to legitimacy. In the you could be. A big success of the fruits of the Civil Movement people felt that things neede
Move forward. Thank you so much and thank you for the presentation. Commissioner thank you very much. Any other members of this public. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Id like to thank the members of the public and there say restaurant in the castro is a restaurant in the castro i wont name the restaurant on 16th street and they string the lights up and were told not to serve and yet they serve and i dont have a problem with that bit know the with that but i know the owners want to work with the city in legalizing that. Maybe thats one thick the commission can do thing the commission can do Going Forward continuing the conversation and especially with a lot of the smaller Restaurant Owners who want to engage. That would be great idea. Commissioner dwight. I had one comment to your question and i wanted to say its always a good time to ask questions how to improve situations for Small Businesses in San Francisco to the extent the merchant associations and merchant and restaurants
Geez, itd be nice if there was a way for more local neighbors, residents, whatever, to create more of a Community Space and that would i think be beneficial to the Small Businesses in the area. Whats drive the need for the foot traffic. Whats the thinking there is the parking is so valuable that i guess i shouldnt put words in your mouth but what is driving that. The question is how to create more of these spaces sometimes i have worked the excelsior in the Mission Corridor and there were a lot of vacancies and we were looking how to have incentives to attract traffic and its what comes first the business or amenity but its particular to each case. Its very dense and businesses are constantly changing and thats why we get all the foot traffic. Weve had people complain about parking and its the amenity thats an extra value for them. We had tons of parking in the mission when i moved there in 91. I dont think anybody would say that businesses were doing better back then. Its been largely
Thank you so much and thank you for the presentation. Commissioner thank you very much. Any other members of this public. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Id like to thank the members of the public and there say restaurant in the castro is a restaurant in the castro i wont name the restaurant on 16th street and they string the lights up and were told not to serve and yet they serve and i dont have a problem with that bit know the with that but i know the owners want to work with the city in legalizing that. Maybe thats one thick the commission can do thing the commission can do Going Forward continuing the conversation and especially with a lot of the smaller Restaurant Owners who want to engage. That would be great idea. Commissioner dwight. I had one comment to your question and i wanted to say its always a good time to ask questions how to improve situations for Small Businesses in San Francisco to the extent the merchant associations and merchant and restaurants are intereste
Not very much, he said he wasnt going to run and i thought he wasnt running and that is the end of my book, he doesnt run but has an impact on the country and all of a sudden these droplets of a rainstorm started two weeks ago. Host did Mister Bloomberg participate in your biography . Guest he took questions, he allowed me to interview people i wanted to interview. I talked to him several times. I followed him around a lot. I had written on and off for 12 years as a member of the New York Times editorial board. I had written a lot of editorials about him. Host when he was mayor of new york. How did Michael Bloomberg get his start . Guest he came from a small workingclass family in massachusetts. His father did not give him 1 million when he was in third grade. And 5000, and sometimes 8000. He became a student leader, a strong student and a business degree. He didnt go to vietnam. He couldnt go, very similar to you know who so he went to wall street and started at the bottom and worked