Concert. Im susan sikora and that is all on bay area focus next. Welcome to the show. Im susan sikora. Its true here in the bay area, there are people who cant afford meals for themselves and their families on a daily basis. They rely on bay area food banks for help. Help that means the difference between eating or going hungry. Recently, the San Francisco food bank lost some critical federal money. How are they closing the goop . Lets ask paul ash, the director of San Francisco food banks now merge. Welcome back, paul. Thank you. Good morning. First of all, this is a second year in a row that you lost some money. Its not the major chunk of your budget, but its still i would think every dollar means meals. What is going on . Why the denials . Well, its crazy that only San Francisco seems singled out, and we get a big goose egg, zero, whereas other counties that look similar demographically and geographically are getting funded. We dont understand it, were asking our political figures t
Welcome to the show. I am susan sikora. Chris matthews worked here in fran at both the chronicle and the examiner. He also worked in the capitol in the 80s as a top aide to the speaker of the house, chip oneill. He had to work with conservative president president Ronald Reagan. He had to work on an embattled economy. Doesnt that sound familiar . Well, so, why are we not making that difference now . Chris dissects new dynamics in his book when politics worked. How can there be a time when two opposites knew how to pray together, represent the country together, do business and get things done, even they disagreed a lot. The subtitle of this book. You mean idea the book came out first and then the government shoutdown . [ laughing ] bill oreilly is the burning bush. He talks to god. We wont even go there. We know he is alive. When politics work is your subtitle. I am not going to be partisan, but the problem right now is this 30 or 40 members of the Republican Caucus eventually saying no
Welcome to bay area focus. Im susan sikora. My first guest is a professor at new York Universitys Department of nutrition, food studies, and public health. Marianne nestle has been a member of the fda food advise or committee and safety board. Shes written awardwinning books on food safety and has much to say about why what we eat can leave us at risk, unhealthy, and obese. If i find food costly and its labels confusing, youre not alone. What is wrong with our food system . She addresses that question in her new book eat, drink, vote. Mary ann nestle, welcome. Glad to be here. You say you write a lot about the politics. I do. And that makes us think, you know, what is really going on . Lets start with the fda. Youre on an advise or board to them. Not on the fda, right . I was on an advisory board. If only they listened to me. I was going to say, did they listen . Probably not. They most definitely did not. I was on the advisory board. A bunch of us advised the fda to lable modified foo
Hi, im susan sikora. Welcome to bay area focus. Meet nancy rose, a former tax attorney and c. P. A. , nancy now gives advice on parenting. Her theory . Accept your children for who they are, rather than for who you wish theyd be. Whats the difference between acceptance and weak discipline . She explains in her book, raise the child you got, not the one you want. Nancy, welcome. Good title. Thank you, susan. It almost implies people dont like the ones theyve got. Well, it is pretty provocative, depending on where theyre coming from, people read in to it. But i chose a very provocative title because i think people need to hear this message that acceptance is a fundamental human need and it just doesnt seem to be heard lately. Okay. Well get to what that all means and how that works in a second. But just before we get into all of this, you have two sons, theyre now grown. And your background was youre a cpa, a lawyer. How did you get from that to parenting expert . Right. I actually dont
Welcome to bay area focus, im susan sikora. Technology has changed the economy, but did it fuel the recession and hurt the middle class . Jaran lanyar thinks so. He is known as the father of virtual technology. Now he is speaking out against some of the technology he helped to create. He says theres a solution to the way we use technology. Details are in his book, who owns the future. Welcome. Thanks for having me. I dance between i cant follow this because its deep and hightech to wow, thats incredible. Before we talk about who owns the future, lets back up, who owns the present . Well, whoever has the largest computers. Recently, those who had oil or controlled transportation, things like that, at present, its the one who has the lanchest computer. Largest computer. Whenever you look, its someone with a giant financial computer, or social network, those are the people who own the present and if you look at the sort of, the we income is distributed now with the declining middle class,