pro-lifeers are calling it a victory and vindication a win by an overreach of the justice department. you mentioned mark hawk lives outside philadelphia, pennsylvania acquitted by a jury of his peers just yesterday charged for allegedly shoving that 72-year-old planned parenthood escort during a clash outside a philadelphia abortion clinic in october of 2021 charged with violating the face act bill. the freedom of access to clinic entrances, a 28-year-old law that makes it a federal crime to use or threaten to use force to injure, intimidate or interfere with anyone seeking either abortion services for pro-life pregnancy counseling services. he was not charged in philly by the district attorney but the d.o.j. who came knocking on his door last fall a few months ago in the form of f.b.i. agents. this was almost a year after the initial incident. full swat gear.
will raise money in all the stuff going on in philadelphia. try to square that. difficult to do. those are challenging the current mayor will say they ll clean it up. dana: let s go to portland, oregon. one of the worst homeless problems in the country. the county purchased tens of thousands of tents and tarps to shelter those in need. news to taxpayers footing the bill and little to no public oversight as to who got the tents or where they would even be used. dan springer is live in seattle with the details. hi, dan. hi, it took a lawsuit to uncover the fact that portland s visible homeless problem is at least partly self-inflicted with taxpayers buying tens of thousands of tents and tarps which for years have littered the city. a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of portland residents disabled seeks to enforce the americans with disabilities act and require the city of portland to remove all homeless encampments the block sub lick
invest in more technology. it s a lot of decisions businesses will have to make this year. rich: and they have been major changes structurally in the u.s. economy since the pandemic, and after the pandemic you have businesses closing down town, opening up outside of downtown areas. here are smaller businesses that are in the core downtown areas. are they seeing a return? do you think this is a permanent shift outside the downtown? what can small business owners expect as they look to this changing landscape? i think you have to be really realistic. i live in downtown philadelphia. i walk around the city all the time. the numbers in philadelphia are that the back to office workers are back about 80% compared to pre-pandemic. you know what the reality is. more people are going to be working from home. you are not going to have the same amount of traffic you had before 2020. if you are operating a deli or a dry cleaner or a newsstand or really relying on that lunchtime crowd, you have
they made us our own lego set. there was a direct emma of our company in berlin. that amazed me that who would want this somebody made a virtual reality four seasons we had people showing up on ou doorstep knocking, asking fo t-shirts we even had one employee tha was leaving, and somebod offered them $50 for the stained sweaty t-shirt off their back we had hundreds of visitor coming in the first couple day following our social media revamp suddenly we had fans. it was surreal would you look at all o these people out here? it s like every day, this is insane people have referred to us as philadelphia landmark. we ve had so many families out front. we even had two sisters, on lived in bethlehem pennsylvania the other in new york city and they met here with a blanket, and a picnic basket and had their thanksgiving dinner together here i really think the four season hotel thing was a blessing for us