Well, i can feel it. Im so excited to be here and im excited, because we have president barack obama ready to come out to greet us. [honking] we also have the next president of the United States, joe biden, ready to come out and greet us. And they are both here because and they michigan certainly love the city of flint. And we know they love this day because they have been here time and time again. But they dont just show up to visit and wave their hands and do some politicking. When they show up, get the business done. They have done that before, and they will do it again. They have shown stable leadership, thoughtful leadership, focused leadership. Man, do we need that again or what . I just want to talk again about how we saw them together and how it made a difference. It is personal to me. When we were facing the financial crisis, wall street agreed went wild and almost brought down the entire economy, it was a mess that barack obama and joe biden walked into. A mess created by the
Strong opposition to any easing of sanctions those advisories in fact wrong with more this lifting of the sanctions is seen as more of a political win for iran its something president Hassan Rouhani it said just in the past few days that its a very important step for the reigne nation for them to have something specific and tangible as a result of the Nuclear Agreement of 2015 now just to give you an idea of how much money iran spends on its defense of program it between 2016 in 2013 it was around 45 percent of its g. D. P. That was between 18. 00 and 22000000000. 00 thats not likely to change. Protesters are gathering once again in the thai capital thousands have been rallying in defiance of a government ban calling for the Prime Minister to stand down the reform of the monarchy and the new constitution going ends are heading to the polls of a tense election that follows months of unrest nearly 5000000 eligible voters are choosing between 12 candidates including incumbent president al
Libertarian keith price. This is about one hour. Rt and covid19 are some of them of the topics we feature tonight. This is ny 22 of the league of women voters debate between candidates for new yorks 22nd Congressional District seat. We asked the three candidates and members socially distance in the studio and thanks to the candidates for joining us. Good evening. This is a partnership between public media, the league of women voters. Civic Engagement Center and history, philosophy and social science department, and the vote everywhere initiative. Our candidates our democratic nominee and incumbent congressman. Early voting begins this weekend and election day is november 3rd and absentee ballots are already in the mail. Voting access has been expanded this year to address concerns amidst the pandemic and here are the ground rules each candidate has one minute for opening and closing statements. The first position will go to mr. Price. We are still taking questions from the voters and c
And the public, city hall is closed. This precaution is being taken pursuant to the local, state orders. Commission meetings will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the same extent as they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Channel 26 and sfgov. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 4156550001. Again, its 4156550001, meeting id 146 7977410. Then press pound and pound again. Then you will hear the meeting discussions which will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways, email myself, alisa. Somera sfgov. Com. Madam chair, that
Chair and directors, yes, i do. So if youre ready, ill begin with this. Meeting of the citizens im sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. Chair borden its not the same as what youre seeing on tv. Your audio is a little bit labored. I dont know if your internet quality is well. Okay. Okay. See if that helps. If it gets really bad, just let me know and i can just submit my report as a written report. No problem, go ahead. Great. So at the last meeting of the Citizens Advisory Council, we met director lai and welcomed her to the board. Thank you, again, for stopping by. We always appreciate welcoming Board Directors at our meetings. Also at our september meeting, i expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the rollout and subsequent rollback of rail service. And i hope that, if nothing else, the problems with rail revealed opportunities to fix and strengthen our system starting with more support at central on that. At our september meeting we heard from operators and members