Struggles, working hard every day to give their children a Better Future and they deserve a government that works. Thanks very much. [applause] thank you. [inaudible conversations] you guys are very quiet. Let me begin by introducing myself. I am bill galston senior fellow in government studies here Brookings Institution and i want to congratulate the governor on his speech. I cannot imagine a more appropriate speech to be delivered under the aegis of the center for effective Public Management and government studies here at brookings. Let me also out on a personal note that if you could find a way of bringing 48hour pothole guarantees to washington d. C. I would follow you to the end of the earth. [laughter] and set with 500,000 other people. That caught my attention. Its hard to do in the middle of the summer. I am informed theres a little bit of wiggle room on the backend so we have close to happen our or the question and answer. Math. Let me tell you what the plan is. Im going to as
The United States department of justice, the f. B. I. , to solve this crime and to hold these perpetrators fully accountable. My brothers retired Law Enforcement officer and he always tells me that cops have the right to come home at night. And thats exactly right. These are people who protect us and keep us safe. And they have the right they have the right to come home at night. Seeing this attack last night really kind of turned my stomach because in the last week since the Justice Department released its report on ferguson i had thought we had begun to see signs of progress. They were goodfaith steps taken within the leadership to move in a new more cooperative direction beneficial to Law Enforcement and community residents. But make no mistake. We still have a long way to go to bring about this systemic change that is needed and that is long overdue in that area. But i think the early indications have truly been positive. But what happened last night was a pure ambush. What happene
Infrastructure financing district. Specifically we would capture net increases in property tax on the site and with the citys approval bond against that to fund inaudible investments to the tune of 5 or 6 Million Dollars. Weve done some considerable outreach and effort with the consultant and the developer and the community to identify public realm needs for the site. If you have been down there you will see the stated condition is poor. Some of the work i will mention next and show you examples of is critical to the project and allow the public to get to the site safely. This work includes sidewalks around the siting, street lights and ada access improvements. Its important to know the ifd approvals are subject to the boards vote. Quickly, some graphics that show some conditions on site, some accessibility items would be addressed including cracked and incorrectly sloped sidewalks. There will be some patching of sidewalks and intersection improvements to improve the flow to the site a
This morning. James and we have some problems this morning with traffic. Danny rubin has a and update. the good news is the accident did clear from the lanes but we have extensive back of all the way out towards the Oakland Coliseum. So thats a very long run for southbound 880. We also have some problems on 238 as well. If we switch over toward the bay bridge. We see things are not much better here unfortunately westbound a deal are backed up well beyond that Oakland Army Base over crossing getting into San Francisco. A very long call this morning. Centel bridge a different story. We are looking pretty good. As long as its yourself away from a 80 you should be ok. No Problem Solved bound at the toll plaza making their way into San Francisco. Darya and dip into the clouds in the Golden Gate Bridge shot. We are looking at a pretty split decision today. A little cloudy but we will see some sunshine. And were just backing up a few degrees from yesterdays gorgeous day. So 73 from the high f
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Democrats favor, but does suggest theres a larger issue that would be playing nout the fall midterm elections on the democrats be. In this case, youve got democrat plus seven. Likely he may be able to put balderson over the top. But youre right, i think you have to look at the numbers on the final result as well, but not just the wl outcome. Kevin, when youre looking at the numbers and you heard what people are saying, youve got to watch the numbers. Not just the w and the l. What are you watching in this because both sides are saying were going to extract something from this. One district to the National Conversation and of course the midterms i agree with everything that was said. Two additional points is specifically looking at the Democratic Party, even the fact this is just just the come so close to begin with in such a typically conservative leaning district really does speak to something that i hear from re