Phase for streetlight plants of the tenderloin so that our neighborhood is well lighted at night. We have some of the fewer streetlights per block of any neighborhood in San Francisco and this is definitely something our residents would like to see. Im happy to see that we are fully funding request from to augment the education component of vision zero which is as important as the engineering enforcement piece so we can be more citywide education to make our multimodes, our drivers, pedestrians, and our cyclists safer on our roads. Finally family of corner Betsy Carmichael schools along with some Capital Improvements to one of our arts organizations and also happy to see that we are funding subsidies shall subsidies for rents to keep our seniors in visual disabilities, homeless adults and families housed in their home. Also im glad to see you funding come in particular to our Transgender Community around organizing but also legal services, and Leadership Support for those that are form
Group effort with significant input from all the republican members of the finance committee. And great work from all of our staff. I want to think everyone involved with their hard work as well as their feedback, perspective and advice and ideas. The last Time Congress enacted a comprehensive overhaul of the tax code back in 1986, president reagan famously noted that the American People would finally have a tax code they could be proud of and in 1986 that was likely true. At that time updates to the tax code were necessary to keep pace with the technological and geopolitical changes our nation has been facing. That sounds pretty familiar sister president and it is after all what weve been saying for the last several years. 1986 was the world is different than today and the advances in theon decades have been monumental. Yet, our tax code has not advanced and it is failing us. The American People have dealt with years of stagnating wages sluggishness and labor markets in a week growth
Support for the tv icon with opening arguments underway in one of the biggest trials in decades. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Fate of a philadelphia icon will come down to 12 people from pittsburgh. The trial for bill cosby is underway. The 79yearold faces three counts of aggravated indecent Sexual Assault. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im dawn timmeney in for january. 12 years after an encounter at his Montgomery County mansion, bill cosby denies he did anything wrong. The Media Coverage is huge and in the middle of it all, is our Chris Oconnell outside the Montgomery County courthouse in norristown. Chris . Reporter dawn, it was a different kind of cosby show here in norristown. Emotional day in court as jurors here in the bill cosby Sexual Assault trial heard from another victim, another woman who gave tear filled testimony she says she too was drugged and assaulted by the 79yearold embattled comedian. Bill cosby leaving day one of court flanked by his attorneys an crush of Internation
Strips the person of their personality. And as ukip call for a ban on full face veils one woman who wears a niqab tells us it will lead to a rise in attacks on muslim women. Hello. Welcome to the programme, throughout the programme, the latest Breaking News and developing stories and as always, really keen to hear from you. A little later, well be talking about scoliosis. If you were watching britains got talent on saturday night, you will have seenjulie, the dancer in the middle, talking about her curvature of the spine. That is what scoliosis is. As a result of discussing that on prime time telly on a saturday night, people are learning about it sometimes for the first time. If youre affected by scolosis, do get in touch this morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Voters in france have chosen the two candidates who will go through to the final round of the president ial election in two weeks time. The
Hosted the event. It is a little over one hour. We are we are delighted divided to have paul saiti with us. The author of of arms and artists, he is the author of several books and essays on american artist. He has cocurated exhibitions at the metropolitan museum of art and the museum of fine arts in boston. He is the recipient of the National Endowment for artists. He is a twotime senior fellow at the met. He has spoken internationally on the intersection of american art and history. With that, i would like to welcome paul to the lectern. [laughter] thank you very much. It is a pleasure to be here this evening. Good evening to you. I want to thank my hosts here at the tavern. And i want to thank my publisher, for publishing this book. Artists. D this is the book here. It is a hybrid book in the sense that it cap attempts to do a number of things at the same time. It is meant to be read by anybody. Anyone interested in 18thcentury america, the founding, or the revolution. I think you w