There are concerns about cracking down on money transfers and that might dampen the demand for gambling. Analysts have come out and said maybe the concerns are overblown. We have seen these stocks in down across the board. They are sharply lower. Time now for our big story, deal or no deal. Top executives from comcast and Time Warner Cable are just finishing up on capitol hill, defending the 40 billion merger. Lawmakers are concerned about what it means for consumers and prices. Testifying against the deal before the House Judiciary Panel , cogent medications, rural media group, an american cable association. Yang yang joins us. What were the highlights . Clocking in at four hours, plenty of arguments on both sides. Understandably, it was david cohen, executive Vice President of comcast, who fielded most of the questions. He seems to be an old pro in these type of hearing. Before the senate last month. Theres only one question he could not answer, and that was whether or not the deal w
Corporate america continues cutting jobs to deal with the laws unintended consequences the urban institute, a leftleaning think tank, says obama should scrap a key component of the law all together, employer mandate. Backers of obamacare take the think tank seriously but will they take this controversial suggestion to heart now . We have washington correspondent peter barnes with the very latest. Peteer . Gerri, thats right. The urban Institute Published this paper that the government could eliminate the employer mandate without reducing Health Care Coverage that much nationally. The mandate says any company with more than 50 fulltime employees who work at least 30 hours a week must provide Health Insurance for them or face penalties. 9 institute says that requirement has been creating labor market distortions like pushing companies to higher fewer workers or reduce their hours. It site cites plans by lands end, Regal Entertainment and seaworld to name a few, to reduce hours of parttim
Testing. Testing. Testing testing testing testing testing testing. Good morning everyone to my right is supervisor david chiu and id like to acknowledge staff today and i guess first before we begin colleagues is there a motion to excuse supervisor breed from the meeting today. All right without objection and madam clerk lisa miller are there any announcements you would like to make . Items acted upon today will appear on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you and madam clerk can you please call item number one please. The schlage lock project. What we have before us today has been informed by an Extensive Community process the participation and feedback began over 13 years ago and weve had exactly 18 Public Meetings about this project everything from design principals and design controls as well as Community Public benefit. After the closure of the schlage lock factory to develop a plan for the reuse and revital ization and concluded with the adoption of a redevelopment plan zo
Good morning everyone to my right is supervisor david chiu and id like to acknowledge staff today and i guess first before we begin colleagues is there a motion to excuse supervisor breed from the meeting today. All right without objection and madam clerk lisa miller are there any announcements you would like to make . Items acted upon today will appear on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you and madam clerk can you please call item number one please. The schlage lock project. What we have before us today has been informed by an Extensive Community process the participation and feedback began over 13 years ago and weve had exactly 18 Public Meetings about this project everything from design principals and design controls as well as Community Public benefit. After the closure of the schlage lock factory to develop a plan for the reuse and revital ization and concluded with the adoption of a redevelopment plan zoning changes that detailed a master plan to help guide change on th
Before we begin colleagues is there a motion to excuse supervisor breed from the meeting today. All right without objection and madam clerk lisa miller are there any announcements you would like to make . Items acted upon today will appear on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you and madam clerk can you please call item number one please. The schlage lock project. What we have before us today has been informed by an Extensive Community process the participation and feedback began over 13 years ago and weve had exactly 18 Public Meetings about this project everything from design principals and design controls as well as Community Public benefit. After the closure of the schlage lock factory to develop a plan for the reuse and revital ization and concluded with the adoption of a redevelopment plan zoning changes that detailed a master plan to help guide change on this particular site however with the demise of the Redevelopment Agency in early 2012 its required us to reassess and