That you do for all of us who work here and live here and visit here. So thank you very much. Its a great honor, and i appreciate it. [applause] president yee director peskin, would you come into the chambers . [applause] president yee that concludes our special commendation for today. Madam clerk, lets go to our First Special 3 00 p. M. Orders, item 46 through 49. Clerk item 46 through 49, this is the appeal for the tentative map for 2146 through 2150 union street. Item 46 is the decision for persons interested in the decision of public works to approve a tentative map for a three unit subdivision. Item 47 is the motion to approve the tentative map for the union street project, and item 48 is the motion to conditionally disapprove the departments decision and to approve the appropriate finding. President yee okay. Colleagues, we have before us an appeal to the determination of the public works approving the tentative map for the project at 21462150 union street. For this hearing, we w
Massive power outage left traffic blocked off for hours. And how the governor says it could have been much, much worse. And we are still keeping an eye on Tropical Storm barry. It was a hurricane but it didnt last very long. Even as a storm barry still caused problems and bay area First Responders heading to the area to try to help. More on that and a live report from louisiana. But first, lets check in with rosemary. These Tropical Storms really can cas havoc. Yes. They are expecting more rainfall in inches as we get into sunday. Here is a look at where it is right now. Still a Tropical Storm at this time with winds at 45 Miles Per Hour. Really it is the rain that everybody is worried about, of course ing see it is moving north, just about 6 Miles Per Hour. That has been the issue with barry. It is creeping through the state of louisiana. Here is a look at where the rain continues. We call it trains, it doesnt move very fast. The same areas continue to be hit for several hours at a ti
Often faces a being too positive and overly optimistic. I have to say, this is a brand of journalism that should be celebrated at a time when most headlines can sink readers into a perpetual state of depression. I also find that positivity quite impressive for someone who has been described as being perpetually on deadline. Leah joins the ranks of great San Francisco news folk such as a hurricane, stanton della plane , charles mccabe, and others, all of whom she knew and worked with. She has managed to capture the quintessential San Francisco moments in words, in vignettes that bring our daily lives and city identity into truly lovely focus. She has been she has a full list of favorite columns over the years, but a couple stand out for me based on their ties to the corner of the safety that city that i live in. There are many. I had my interns scrubbed them. One of them that i remember, and this is from, i dont know if you remember this, but this is from almost 15 years ago, she descri
Maintaining order in the rightofway. Some of the most beautiful streets of the city are to be found in jackson square. We hope to be underway by 2020. So thats the presentation. Its long in coming, about 12 years in the making, and i think youll see substantial support from all the Property Owners who have returned their ballots to improve this Great Community benefit district. Thank you. President yee thank you. Okay. We will now open public testimony. If youre here to in support of the assessment district, please come up. You have two minutes. Hello. My name is frank collins. Im here representing clint mark landmark properties. This has been a long time coming, as marco said, but nothing worth doing comes easy. We urge you to support the formation of this district. This is both an opportunity and responsibility of all the Business Owners in the district, and were very excited to get going. Thank you very much. Supervisor rodney fong with the San Francisco chamber of commerce. I seek
Thank you. Thanklet me introduce our panels im going to do so in alphabetical order. So it probably will not relate to to what the order in which they speak. So first, jake Jake Friefeld is the new director of center for lincoln studies at the university of illinois springfield. Earlier, he was illinois and midwest studies Research Historian at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library and museum, and he is the latest addition, a contingent of of Springfield Young scholars who have begun coming to forum. And were delighted that they here and that theyre participating. His recent book is first migrants how homesteaders quest for land and freedom heralded americas great migration. Who was here for the second time is the director of research and interpretation at the abraham president ial library and museum in springfield for years he taught history. The university of arkansas. Hes the author of manual mental. Oscar dunn and his radical fight in reconstruction louisiana. And that was publ