Commissioner peskin present. Commissioner preston present. Commissioner ronen absent. Commissioner safai absent. Commissioner stefani absent. Present commissioner walton present we have quorum. Thank you, madam clerk ive received requests from commissioners commissioner safai and commissioner chan also objections upcoming to grand that request i believe you have a Public Comment announcement. For members of the public interested in participating in this meeting we welcome our attention inperson in the elective chamber in room 250 or serve the meeting live add sfgovtv. Org remotely the best way dial the number on your screen. Legislative chamber, room 250, city hall watch sf cable channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider watch 2663 506 8858 to make Public Comment on an item, when the item is called, dial 3 to be added to the queue to speak. Speak. When your 2 minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. Calls taken i
gavel gavel county Transportation Authority meeting this morning at 10 00 am. , tuesday, may 21, 2024. Im chair mandelman serve as chair and our vice chair is commissioner melgar and thank you, sfgovtv and our clerk clerk yvette lopezjessop madam clerk, call the roll. Absolutely commissioner chan absent. Commissioner dorsey presents. Commissioner engardio present. Chair mandelman present. Commissioner melgar absent. Commissioner peskin present. Commissioner preston present. Commissioner ronen absent. Commissioner safai absent. Commissioner stefani absent. Present commissioner walton present we have quorum. Thank you, madam clerk ive received requests from commissioners commissioner safai and commissioner chan also objections upcoming to grand that request i believe you have a Public Comment announcement. For members of the public interested in participating in this meeting we welcome our attention inperson in the elective chamber in room 250 or serve the meeting live add sfgovtv. Org r
It is so great to be here with you. Im very excited about the book and i guess we could start with the biggest question of all, which is why were you compelled to write the book that is titled beyond trans does gender matter . Guest sure. Im happy to be here to talk about the book. I was inspired by a very strange kind of policy that we have in the city of philadelphia bridges or Public Transportation authority and does require everybody that bought a monthly pass had to have a gender marker either f4 female or m. For mail on their past, and this created a loan of six identity discrimination within the city and in particular, one transgender woman a friend of mine and an activist in philadelphia brought a lawsuit against the company for gender identity discrimination because when she offered her pass she was turned away and the individual bus drivers if you cant use this because in my opinion, you are not a real woman. Then she brought back a pass with a m sticker and they said you are
My name is cynthia and i want to thank you for coming tonight. Im a librarian here at midmanhattan library and im very happy to present john john mcwhorter. John has come more than once. Been very kind. That. This is his third visit. Tonight hell be speak about miss most recent book, talking back, talk black joan mcworther is an associate prefer of english and comparative literature at Columbia University where re teaches linguist sticks, western service, and american studies. A New York Times best selling author, ted speaker and a the author of 16 books, and tonight he is going to be speaking about his most recent book talking back, talking black. Without further adieu, john mcworther, please. Thank you. For coming. My last book pay talking back, talking black had a very compact thesis. I wanted to see if i could make the general public have a more positive view of the dialect that most black americans use in casual situations because the general idea is that black english is some sor
Host every guest we have on indepth we ask for their reading, what are their career influences and things like this. These are the answers that we got from Neil Degrasse tyson look for these. It is they are. If your life that then, theres no reason to think you wouldve said no. You just watch the way and take everybody with it, culminating in a constitutional amendment. We have an amendment that machine the production of the sale or consumption of alcohol. And so, what will people in 20 years be reading about today seeing what were you guys thinking . Its obvious cant you see . Host and a significance that when i generate 29th, week after the inaugural . Guest im sure there is something that week it was just people react to you. It wasnt so much the election, but there is the election plus the reaction for the election plus what he says about the election and the inauguration. I think it was just the total conduct of everybody just at odds with one another, war with one another and kil