At the bay bridge toll plaza the metering lights have been on since before 3 00 p. M. The lashing approximate pur ferry ran 11 trips to San Francisco instead of the usual four with more trips still to come. Each ferry killed with 200 to 300 people. The parking lot at larks spur was not full but that will likely change as ferries to tonights giants game begin service. As for construction itself it is on schedule in the presidio along doyle drive. In fact, one section of asphalt being laid has been completed faster than expected. We started this morning around 9 30 the immediate wran curb, which is the followup activity. After that we still have to do barrier rail and striping and some minor electrical work. That area is really i would say ahead of schedule. Reporter so is far construction crews are sticking to their estimated schedule completion time of 5 00 a. M. Monday morning. Reporting live in albany im chuck coppola, nbc bay area news. Lets take a look at traffic right now. Where y
Brian Thomas Schatz citizens against government waste. You are president of it and you have been around the organization for 30 years. What does it do . Thomas it was created following the release of the Grace Commission report. Peter grace and jack anderson, syndicated columnist, took president reagans advice which was to not let the report gather dust on the shelf and they put together citizens against government waste and the lobbying arm of that called the council for citizens against government waste. The job of the organization is to uncover, expose, publicize, and a limited government waste and fraud and mismanagement. Brian what is the pig book . Thomas it started in the early 1990s. Following the release of a list of unauthorized programs which was done under president reagan in 1988, we got the idea of taking that list and figuring out how those expenditures were getting into the bills if they were not supposed to be there. We worked with a Bipartisan Coalition of members of
Syndicated columnist, took president reagans advice which was to not let the report gather dust on the shelf and they put together citizens against government waste and the lobbying arm of that called the council for citizens against government waste. The job of the organization is to uncover, expose, publicize, and a limited government waste and fraud and mismanagement. Brian what is the pig book . Early it started in the 1990s. Following the release of a list of unauthorized programs which was done under president reagan in 1988, we got the idea of taking that list and figuring out how those expenditures were getting into the bills if they were not supposed to be there. We worked with a Bipartisan Coalition of members of congress which was then called the congressional pork busters coalition and they came up with us, a definition. It was called work but porkbarrel spending. And then called earmarks. Then we started the pig book. The first was 3 billion and it went up to 29 billion in
Dust on the shelf and they put together citizens against government waste and the lobbying arm of that called the council for citizens against government waste. The job of the organization is to uncover, expose, publicize, and a limited government waste and fraud and mismanagement. Brian what is the pig book . Thomas it started in the early 1990s. Following the release of a list of unauthorized programs which was done under president reagan in 1988, we got the idea of taking that list and figuring out how those expenditures were getting into the bills if they were not supposed to be there. We worked with a Bipartisan Coalition of members of congress which was then called the congressional pork busters coalition and they came up with us, a definition. It was called porkbarrel spending. And then called earmarks. Then we started the pig book. The first was 3 billion and it went up to 29 billion in 2006. Every year and that we can find earmarks in the appropriations will, we release a cong
You cant have a novel without an audience and the fact there is this eager public wanting to know about the world around, wanted to know how life works, and he keeps this kind of thread of connection within the novel i think. You had the feeling rebellion against delivery status quo when you stumble into money in 2000 willing to learn about it and talk to bankers about it. At the point, i since you have some animosity towards going on in london. That it wasnt just a detached interest. I started the novel thinking it was going to be a crash. I started a book, describing a bubble, and thinking it would be a dramatic iron in some classic sense, when the audience knows something but the people onstage dont. Michael and i both had our flies undone, that would be a dramatic irony. A daytime tv kind. So my fear was the audience would know. Im describing this at the bank is being pleased with themselv themselves, and the reader would know a crash is coming. So i was really, really interested w