Is the most Democratic Media is when a person writes a letter to an elected official like a mayor, governor cant be censored or destroyed command not to try to answer it or technology so that people know that its not going to some dark hole is a major issue i think and most people dont realize realize in a written letter to a politician has far more impact than an email. You certainly dont expect him to answer every letter. And we speak about that in the book. Guest a lot of people dont know the teams of volunteers go to the white house every morning and separate all these letters. No one expects the president to answer these letters. But he has a staff and departments and agencies throughout the executive branch and they should all be acknowledged and thats my complaint. We have letters for highprofile issues like the bailout people are writing a book of letters, yes. Now they will send a call like this which doesnt even answer the letter or they will write letters to supporters or co
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Continuance for september 10, 2015, but i believe we discussed that to september 24th at this point. Any Public Comment on item the one item proposed for continuance not seeing Public Comment is closed. Commissioner richards move to continue item one to accepted 24 on that motion to continue item one to september 24th commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards commissioner wu and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places us under the consent calendar for items 2, 3 a and 3 b i do have one speaker cards for item 2 a mic a ma sell florlz we will is have to place it in others regular calendar. Items 2 and 3. Right for the San Francisco west side kriejdz Environmental Impact report okay. Well have to pull that off of content and put it on the regular calendar that pulls 3 a and b off consent we cant act until the Environmental Impact report is soundproofed. Okay. Thats outlook. Shall we pl
It feel that much more worse. For more on how wind chill will impact tonight, and tomorrow, we will head out to meteorologist Justin Drabick live from Franklin Square, hi justin. Reporter good evening, kate. Normally this area is busy especially a a week ago when we were talking about the the new years eve festivity but today it is desserted. One of the days where you want to stay inside. Check out the streets. Not many people walking couple people walking their dog over past 15 minutes or so. We saw a meter reader coming bias well. That is a tough job today. Here we go just cold. Temperatures holding in the 20s and this wind continues. Let talk about what to expect this evening as we go to our weather graphics. We will break it down hour by hour. Here we go for your evening planner. We will take you to 7 00 oclock tonight with the actual air temperature around 20 degrees. Factor in the wind it will feel more like zero to below zero at times 9 00 oclock clear the the skies out and more
When there is water. This ground should be covered in mustard. That is just one example of the impact drought is having here in napa valley. There snow beating around the bush discussing the impact in napa. 2013 was driest year on record. Driest winter on record. According to the Grape Growers association from july 1stjanuary 31st rainfall levels in napa tend to be close to 15 inches. Currently at 2. 9 inches. With no rain there is hardly any cover crop. You know mustards growing in between rows. Dominic is a vineyard manager. Higher it grows more nutrition youre going to put back into the vineyard warmer temperatures caused buds to come out early. This makes crops vulnerable to frost. We do not have any frost protection. So a long frost could spell disaster. The reservoirs are low. Growers are assessing how much water they have and how much theyll need. Some will have to set their Irrigation Systems to cover small zones, not the vineyard. If there is no significant rainfall in the nex