Nurses urges the poishts to have a Healthy Lifestyle so things like a soda tax that will support that in a small way are very well. Were up against huge obstacles in fighting for the health feel our community. As a parent i urge you to support in tax it helps our kids be heath. I for bad sugary drinks in our households as my kids grew up and its anecdotal evidence their healthy and not over weight and i think thats likely they wont grew up to be diabetics and finally as a San Francisco resident im proud of our city for this big picture thinking well lead the country that the country must and will go in im proud of our leadership as a city thank you for your leadership as supervisors. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im dr. Robert gould as a 31 years as a doctor i would at im, however, representing physicians for social responsibility im the president for the bay area chapter and currently president over our National Organization and representing thousands of physicians throughout the S
San franciscan and a small property owners. Everyone on this defeat agrees that diabetes is a terrible thing no one is disputing that. I admire our tensions to battle it; however, good intentions in and of itself dont make for good policy. Intended consequences specifically for Small Businesses but in relation to larger businesses. You say the tax a levied at the point of distribution, of course, the taxes get passed along to the businesses. Small businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth are going to have to raise their taxes but safest way can absorb the costs i want to see more small mom and pop businesses my feeling is this tax will hit them particularly hard thats why i oppose it thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi im kevin i dont know where to begin i think im only volunteering i dont work for the soda industry person im here as a voter in San Francisco. What about the fact this is a regressive fact thats the truth and youre trying to white wash over it. That another f
Brown four out of ten street lights dont work and it takes an hour on average for Detroit Police to respond to 911 calls. Hari sreenivasan looks at the motor citys battle amid bankruptcy. Detroiters are so used to bad news, and they are so used to things not really breaking our way, and theyre used to getting up the next morning and going, well, i cant stop, ive got to keep going, ive got to keep trying. Woodruff david brooks and ruth marcus analyze the weeks news. Brown and yes, those are goats in that graveyard. More than a hundred of them. Kwame holman tells us what theyre doing in this historic washington, d. C. , cemetery. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations.
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As i said in my opening remarks, i called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before mr. Snowden made these leaks. My preference and i think the american peoples preference would have been for a lawful, orderly examination of these laws; a thoughtful, factbased debate that would then lead us to a better place, because i never made claims that all the surveillance technologies that have developed since the time some of these laws had been put in place somehow didnt require, potentially, some additional reforms. Thats exactly what i called for. That somehow they got there willy, nilly, just sucking in information on everybody and doing what we please with it. Thats not the case. Our laws specifically prohibit us from survailing u. S. Persons without a warrant, and there are a whole range of safeguards that have been put in place to make sure that, that basic principle is abided by. But. But what is clear is that, whether because of the instinctive bias of the Intelligenc