Today were going to think about how the sun is playing a growing role in our future. Our modern world uses an awful lot of power and the sun, as well as other sources of energy are looking better all the time. Thats why my recent tour of an industrial scale solar farm was such an enlightening experience. These state of the art solar panels are moving platforms designed to follow the sun. They soak up an immense amount of energy, free Energy Created all day long every day. All the power thats being generated on this farm is being sold back to the grid. Its about 2. 4 mega watts of solar panels in the sun here today. So its generating more than a mega watt right now. Right now. [chuck] but its not loud. Theres no smell. No, no, its also clean, so its quiet, clean and has very little Environmental Issues at all. Solars really the future that is coming fast. [chuck] thats why anyone looking to address Climate Change has to look at the sun. The ultimate power source. At its core, its an inc
The United States trillion dollar war has served its arch rival. I think the reason the americans are so surprised at the amount of influence iran has is basically because iran has done everything the americans have not done. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers li
The United States trillion dollar war has served its arch rival. I think the reason the americans are so surprised at the amount of influence iran has is basically because iran has done everything the americans have not done. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers li
Deduction to San Francisco filers so we think that its about 2. 1 billion for the state and local tax dedukd deduction a lot smaller, i dont know, 100 million or so in the property tax deduction. Supervisor cohen so overall theres less revenue going into the state budget and the local San Francisco budget for us to then reallocate during the budget process . I dont think that its a direct affect and if you take 2 2. 1 billion out of the local economy, you have to expect that it will affect the local business ability to invest or to expand supervisor cohen to hire. You have to expect that Discretionary Spending would decrease because the cost of necessities is going up and it would certainly affect your sales tax. The effect on the Housing Market and our transfer tax and the property tax as a result seems like it would if anything it would have to possibly drive down prices and just reflecting the fact that most buyers are going to have higher costs to finance and then pay taxes on thes
Hitting the people that we actually wanted in San Francisco versus the corporations that buy up a lot of real estate here that are going to get a huge break with this tax deduction. Lets just hope that people have a moral conscience and thats farfetched, i know, and well pushback on this but i think that we are i mean, its hard to see what the changes might be because everything is in flux but just looking at this i think that it could really hit a lot of San Francisco, but what were trying to do to get people middleclass folks in sa San Francisco to invest in a small piece of real estate here, its going to be detrimental to that effort. Supervisor cohen definitely. Any other tax wisdom that you want to share with us . Not at this moment. Ill turn it over to cindy comerford from the department of Public Health with an update on affordable care. Supervisor cohen okay. Okay, good afternoon supervisors, my name is cindy comerford and i manage the policy and planning at the department of P