Commissioner constant didn ande are excused. We have a quorum. Welcome to the dbi. Youll see a strong tone of earthquake awareness and readiness in my comments today. Tomorrow, as most of you know marks the 30th anniversary of the leoma skwaeurb earthquake ae city is hosting numerous events at the marina, as well as holding a tabletop exercise at the department of emergency management, include within of ie Structural Engineers seok and brop is the terminology for that and the annual duck and cover exercise held at citywide. Thats actually an earthquake event. While much has been accomplished over the past three decades to strengthen buildings seismically. Seismically, we must prepare for earthquakes around the world. With our Retrofitting Program in its final phase, we are at 98 compliance in terms of filed permits and thats quite an achievements. So welldone and 65 completion and that could be stronger but well get there. Private Property Owners have invested approximately 250 million
The United States. A federal state utility collaboration. This is a little bit of a different topic for usc a, but one that we are very eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking out of the degree of urgency. Always been urgent what i think myself that urgency is growing so thank you for coming we have an excellent panel here today. For our discussion. We hope to have audience participation as well. Monitoring in todays session is our luck. Mark will provide the discussion and moderate the discussion in the need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist, and is an expert on local and Regional Energy and housingfinancing. He is consulted regularly for federal, state foundation and nonprofit agencies. Hes experience at testifying before congress and he is the executive director of the National Energy assistance Directors Association and the Energy Progra
Jurisdiction spirit is that include, are you comparing the little hamlet in indiana with los angeles or new york . I dont know the answer to the 21 question of the particular city. They can do that by keeping their own record. You have conceded they can require the information as a matter of law. Thats my point is this. My point is because they can do it here, they can do it anywhere pair the government can require any business to keep track of all of its transactions and customers and if the government can then just say, all right give us that information, they reduced the Fourth Amendment appeared to amendment. The amount of government regulation here is massive. The reason the general is here on behalf of the United States is that there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of regulatory schemes the federal government ministers where it is now required to use a subpoena. A subpoena is worthless when what is sought is something that could be easily destroyed hidden, or falsified. Tr
Legislation that would end the federal prohibition on medical marijuana. When it comes to the topic of cable news, a new goal from Quinnipiac University has responded about who they trust when it comes to coverage, and the survey concluded that overall it was fox news that led the most trusted coverage. What is your most trusted news source . Whether it be Cable Network local news, or other sources as well. The numbers are on the screen. You can post on twitter, on our Facebook Page and you can email us. It is Quinnipiac University who does many polls on a lot of different topics. Their latest look is at journalistic coverage among Cable Network is and other Coverage Network news and other coverage as well. Mr. Paul malloy joins us. Thanks for your time. Can you tell us about cable news including the result that fox news was on top . Guest we approach the dust we approached this with two things, first, do you trust them a great deal or somewhat and we went down in major cable news netw
applause well, thank you and welcome to california. Its a great place to come and talk about solar energy because we are in the forefront of certainly the rest of the states, probably in fact, certainly in the western hemisphere, california is in the lead. And thats important. But being in the lead doesnt mean weve arrived at the goal. Got a long way to go and i hope the work you do here, the conversations, the relationships that are formed can help advance the cause of solar energy and Renewable Energy or generally. Back when i was governor the first time, that was a long time ago some of you folks werent even born then not too many. I see a few gray hairs here who are hanging around. That was a long time ago, 38 years ago, as a matter of fact. Very few people get to be governor 38 years after they first started. [laughter] with a 28year hiatus. applause so, i guess i have to expiate my Many Political sins and i spent time in the wilderness. But i am back and i can reflect on how poli