The people behind the walls cameras just got a lot easier. Eaer. Theres always gonna be ideas on how to make traveling better. I have to drive through highway 100 so just the construction, its down to one lane and theres like a lot of businesses aroundre, city can do anything, but people in general be considerate of others. Cedar rapids has its own plan of action. Action. Well be enhancing our capability to observe ininrsections and cocoidors throughout the city. Theyll be using a new video system with walltowall monitors to controltraffic flow. Flow. Kinda what youre seeing now is basically going to a webpage ana individually logging into eachchamera one by one. So with the upgrade, our traffic will be controlled hundred cameras. Cameras. The biggest benefit that i think were gonna see is really gonna help us with the traffic signal timing. So your wait time at that red light might bebeut short. Short. Using software to retime the signals and come up with the most optimized timings fo
Cbs 2 news ten at ten continues now with more of the corridors top stories. Stories. Right now, cedar rapids is undergoing a major traffic facelift. All the upgrades are designed to make your commute safer. Safer. Cbs 2 News Reporter dora miller is live in cedar rapids tonight to explain. Dora . Drivers might notice a slight difference. But the lives of the people behind the walls cameras just got a lot easier. Easier. Theres always gonna be ideas on how to make traveling better. I have to drive through highway 100 so just the construction, its down to one lane and theres like a lot of businesses around there, so i guess maybe, i dont know if they can speed it up at all. City can do anything, but people in general be considerate of others. Cedar rapids has its o o plan of action. Action. Well be enhancing our capability to observe intersections and corridors throughout the city. Theyll be using a new video system with walltowall monitors to controltraffic flow. Flow. Kinda what youre s
The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 234 and the nays are 177. The previous question is ordered. The question is on the adoption of the resolution. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. Mr. Polis mr. Speaker, i request a recorded vote the speaker pro tempore a recorded vote is requested. Those in favor of taking this vote will stand and be counted. A sufficient number having arisen, yeas and nays are ordered members will record their votes by electronic deve. This will be a fiveminute vote. National captioning institute inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of of of representatives the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 234 and the nays are 184. The resolution is agreed to. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the ta
There are new efforts that i will call on the legislature to adopt. However we should make our First Priority implementing the reforms we have already passed. I recently released opportunity mississippi which is my Strategic Plan for the state. In that document i outlined benchmarks for education works reforms. College and Career Readiness among High School Students has become the centerpiece of change and advancement. We must aim to reduce our High School Dropout rate a 10 by 2017. If properly implemented, the other reforms we have enacted will help us achieve this goal. Through the third grade gate we should also work to document a 20 increase in literacy attainment for the third thirdgrade students by 2017. I call on the legislature to work toward providing enough funding for this essential program to establish a ratio of one reading coach, one for every nine teachers, one reading coach for every nine teachers in our highest need classrooms. I have long been an advocate for increasi
A b process systems in stratford hired 50 more people over the past year and greenheck in schofield added 209 jobs since 2011. These are just the employers i visited in the past few days. Throughout the past year, we helped amazon. Com expand and create up to 1,250 jobs here in wisconsin. Emco chemical distributors moved up from illinois with about 187 jobs. Hanna cylinders announced the same thing and brought 105 jobs to our state. All three of these companies moved into kenosha county. [ applause ] these are just a small sample of the many good news stories showing wisconsin is going back to work. [ applause ] this is a stark contrast to the negative job outlook of the past. During my predecessors last term, wisconsin lost more than 133,000 jobs and lost more than 27,000 businesses. In 2009, the Unemployment Rate peaked at 9. 2 . During that same year, wisconsins ranking in chief executive magazines best and worst states for business was 43rd. In 2009, a survey of employers by the ch