We were both there for many years. They went into a downturn in the late 2000s. In the face of the internet and it started to evolved into a fulfilling job for me. I decided what i really loved to do was investigate complex cases and it was less market for that in the journalism world. The emphasis was on breaking news so i decided to try to see if i could do that work as a consultant. What kind of stories did you work on . I started out covering american politics here in washington in the late 1980s, early 90s and investigating politicians for possible corruption. Ethics in washington and over the years, got evolved into different types of investigating journalism involving financial crime, broad corporate cases, scandals, financial crisis and then over time, after 9 11, i started branching out into International Criminal matters such as terrorism and organized crime. What was peters role . Peter was my editor. We were stationed together in brussels, belgium which is the headquarters
Should do Robust Community outreach to identify these sites with communitybased organizations and faith institutions and more. And explore ways to pass the cost savings on to the residents themselves, and not just the managers of these sites. And as i mentioned, highlight affordable and Senior Housing sites. We have already started seeing the consequences for neighboring communities in the last round of Public Safety power shutoffs that there were multiple Senior Housing complexes in communities where the power went out. And with some cases with clients living there and tripping over each other and going without their oxygen equipment that required electricity for days. San francisco, we dodged the bullet in this case, but we might not be so lucky in the future. There are a number of other recommendations. Just to touch on one real briefly, a prohibition on natural gas and new construction has been discussed. I think that is worthwhile considering, given our cas disar prone areas of th
The areas they did a study to see what energy loads were needed and what would have to be is stored on those sites. These were not all of the sites and it was a list of 67. And those were mostly schools, fire and other community centers. Not housing sites. Commissioner mar and do you know what the status is right now of moving forward with on on installation at any of these sites . The only one that im aware of from my conversations with the sfpuc staff who work on these projects is at fergg and marshall high where theyre piloting it. And thats the only one that im aware of thus far. Commissioner mar great. And then im just trying to understand the benefit of these installations so at the site, would that provide backup energy just to the school or would it serve a broader a broader geographic range of people that might lose power during a power outage . Sure. My understanding is that it was just for the school site itself and the reason that it was identified in part is that its an id
Organizations and faith institutions and more. And explore ways to pass the cost savings on to the residents themselves, and not just the managers of these sites. And as i mentioned, highlight affordable and Senior Housing sites. We have already started seeing the consequences for neighboring communities in the last round of Public Safety power shutoffs that there were multiple Senior Housing complexes in communities where the power went out. And with some cases with clients living there and tripping over each other and going without their oxygen equipment that required electricity for days. San francisco, we dodged the bullet in this case, but we might not be so lucky in the future. There are a number of other recommendations. Just to touch on one real briefly, a prohibition on natural gas and new construction has been discussed. I think that is worthwhile considering, given our cas disar prone areas of the city with earthquakes. We saw that in the Richmond District how disruptive and
1 it is not the fed. Its not the trade talks, its demand demand for money demand for homes, demand for processing, demand for cancer drugs and programming and demand for cell phones and demand for planes and of course perhaps most important, demand for stocks yet if you listen to most of the experts you here a lot of fury about ow the Global Economy has gotten weaker because the trade war has shut down international trade. I dont want to sugar coat anything the Global Economy has absolutely taken a hit yearoveryear and the tariffs are part of that but here is the thing. Many stocks were trading like were about to get an even more stringent round of tariffs and that didnt happen instead the president started negotiating with china and that allowed a host of flailing stocks to get their mojo back. The tariff made it strong that without the averages demand would have never made it this far. Let me walk you through the places where that demand is m t most palpable first there is demand for