Who will be the new Prime Minister. And Turkeys Parliament prepares to consider sending military support for libyas internationally recognized government in the battle against google what. Its being called one country one sense a new report by the committee for the protection of journalists and accused china of infringing on Media Freedom in hong kong and taiwan the group says its found violence is increasingly being used against journalists working in hong kong along with other tactics to muzzle reporters its also concerned about chinas increasing influence and ownership of Media Outlets which put the media on the front line against police and weve seen many instances of these. Really gratuitous attacks on journalists journalists who are stand. Pepper spray. You know. And theres no justice. And the police are not being held to account and so i think this has led to an increasing divide. And we will have more on that from hong kong and then later on in the bulletin but lets move on to
If you read through board avenue peels against cell phone towers every person there alleges that they were given improper notification. I dont think its a winning argument because i dont think the board of appeals has overturned a permit on improper notice. I think its true. Verizon in particular has gone to great length to avoid giving notice to people and notice was required to be given to owners or tenants and you have mr. Albred here today. Verizons position was they could chose to notify owners or tenants but not both. Right. If i have in charge of running a race and i say, person who comes in first or second gets a medal. I dont ex fact you to chose the person and not give the person a medal. Its unreasonable interpretation. Hundreds of permits were issued with this background. So, i just want to highlight we need to have notice. If neighbors dont know what is going on, they cant fight back. When we go to our politicians, they always say, well, you know, you need come up and infl
Rate in the population of San Francisco. This includes heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a host of neurological diseases in children and adults including particularly the rate of. Al in San Francisco. We are at a ross roads in San Francisco. We can either reject this roll out and lay the foundation for a safe wired city or we will risk being one of the most toxic cities in the world. I urge you to take the first step to blocking this ordinance. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. My name is linda smith and i lived in San Francisco since 1985 and im a former editor of the San Francisco chronicle. I have a different story for you today. Earlier this year, seven neighbors got together to impose the permitted installation of a wireless antenna on a light pole outside their building at pacific avenue and webster street. In their appeal, which i have here, and will leave with the clerk, they documented the dpw and Planning Department made incorrect determinations regard north permi
Theres a 15day right of appeal to the board of appeals. In reality, Public Notice is quite limited so when i hear from folks on the mission corridors that they dont want the director, plan the director after february to do this and theyre still discretional, i felt like we should listen to that. Given that the sensitive is entertainment and permitted in all that map that you saw. Or a vast majority. I hear you and ive heard in those meetings as well in the mission in particular concern i havent heard about entertainment. Ive heard about restaurant uses and expansion of wine and people i havent heard anyone push back about entertainment. Unless entertainment is being defined differently, how is entertainment being defined here . Are we talking about comedy, music . What are we talking about . I have the definition. A Retail Entertainment arts and recreation use that provides entertainment to the general public including dramatic and music performances where alcohol is not served during
I want to thank our witnesses, secretary esper, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria particularly in light of the events that happened when turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important.