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Stop how and when police in potentially dangerous suspects. Outrage over Michael Brown in ferguson, freddy gray in baltimore. And the death of mario woods the 26yearold black man was shot at least 15 times by Police Officers. In chicago meanwhile local black religious leaders called today for a vote of no confidence against mayor rahm emanuel. This follows allegations of a coverup in investigation of the death of 17yearold la quawnl n mcdonald. As david ariosto reports, outrage over mcdonalds shooting by a Police Officer has forced chicagos mayor to scramble to survive. Some kid was shot down by 16 shots. 16 shots. Its time for police to stop. Not just today, this is not new. Reporter as protests continue to royal the city of chicago over the Police Killing of a blac ....
We are basically concerned with active transportation. Moving to them after becoming our city engineers major focus. We are pretty well completed on that. We need bike trails, walking trails, running trails. Part of the city moving toward higher densities. The traditional part of our city, horse trails and are expanding those as well as we go along and do that. The 3rd role is Economic Development, critical to develop because we are so dependent upon salestax and franchise tax. When the process right now hopefully it we will bring 400 million of construction into commercial construction into our area. Area. Retail development, regional Retail Development office space hotel big boxes as well. During my administration with the opportunity of seeing big boxes move in. Two walmarts in our city. Home depot laws before that we had pieces market and the rich and drug. Deve ....
Accommodate that kind of demand driven by change and growth unless we invest in transportation today. And specifically public transport. Of course more people means more people trying to get to work and because this is america it also means more people starting and growing businesses and they will need to connect to workers. A very recent example. When the big blizzard in january shutdown bostons Public TransportationMassachusetts General Hospital had a real problem. According to the hospital, nearly half of their employees take public transit. So in the midst of this very dangerous storm they were literally working overtime to make sure they could get enough on every shift to serve their patients. That is the situation that is not as unique as it sounds. In atlanta, University Study looked at 5 ....