He has been a member of the faculty of Southern California noted by Time Magazine is one of the greatest minds. Appearedms work has in many different works. Jonathan is a member of the Advisory Board for the state financial board. Joining us to kick off remarks and share more information about the top trends in the 13th edition is jonathan williams, then arthur laffer, and steve moore. You can ask questions by dropping them into the box at the bottom of your screen. Jonathan, why dont you take it away . Good afternoon, everyone. It is such a pleasure to work with my good friends on this project. Going into our 13th edition that will be released tomorrow. This is been top of mind on how do we exit this covert environment in a way that makes us more prosperous. Have goodarch will comments on that. Art will have good comments on that. Lets get to the top 10 and bottom 10. At the rankings based on 15 factors. Regulation, policy, things that dr. Laffer has looked it over the decades. Also,
The effect. The woman who shot video of the rope and posted it and her concerns on social media. I saw something swinging it caught my eye. It caught me off guard. Is this man told us the rope is part of a rigging used by him and his friends as a larger swing system and shared this video in action. Out of the dozens and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought it looked anywhere close to a noose. Folks use it for exercise. It was really a fun addition to the park. That we tried to create. He told us this small piece of rope in a tree is part of the same system. Still, for many people the image of anything that looks like a noose stirs up intense emotion. Even if it was supposed to be exercise rope. It is making us all unsafe. Its unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanted to create a good time, got misinterpreted into something heinous. Oakland police are investigating and assigned extra patrol to the lake. Adding we understand the historic and harmful
Businesses will have to implement a sitespecific plan to protect employees and customers including disinfecting and social distancing. None of this means anything if customers dont feel safe. And none of this matters, in the spirit of your question, and direct response if employees dont feel safe and dont want to come back to work i dont see the issue of economic opening and growth disconnected from health. Other businesses include pet groomers and dog walkers. The governor said counties can remain under stricter orders if they decide to do so because of local conditions. That includes these six bay area counties that have collectively decided to remain under stayathome orders through the end of may. Mini bay area Restaurant Owners are trying to see how they can adapt to these new guidelines. Ktvus rob roth spoke to some of them. They see opportunity, but also struggles ahead. Reporter when slow hand barbecue i did have it to take out orders only the owner didnt know what to expect. We
The flames, which burned about seven acres so its not just the fire danger but hot days like this when everyone is stuck inside their homes and it causes a lot of problems as well. We will bring in nbc bay area robert handa who joins us in concord. Well, it was hot, all day, and it is still pretty hot right now. That caused a lot of problems, big and small. The biggest, more fuel for fires. Its been a tough week for firefighters in contra costa county. There were several fires in the clayton area alone. And cal fire says the current heat wave isnt helping. It is really turning very quickly. So that makes it a little leery for the coming fire season. The fuels are drying quick limit our ground moisture is disappearing. For many people in had concord neighborhood, an extra challenge on the hottest day when were all asked to stay in our homes, people are cutting off their, have their power cut off to install Safety Equipment and they are trying to cut the power remotely during high fire d
Im chair of the committee and to my right and supervisor stephani and supervisor walton and were joined by supervisor hainey and i want to thank corwin coolee for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Please make your you have silenced your stones and cell p. Items acted upon will appear on the march 10, 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, are clerk. Please all our first item. An ordinance to require the medical examiner to report information to the mayor, the board of supervisors and the director of health each month regarding deaths from Drug Overdoses. Thank you, supervisor hainey, this item is yours. Yes, thank you, chair. Im here, again, with you, committee to again discuss what we can t do to take action on te most deadly epidemic facing our city which is the Drug Overdose epidemic. Drug use and drug overuse deaths in San Francisco and across california, as we all know have been increasing at a terrifying rate and today, people in our cities are dying