They offer a sobering view of how the world really works. We may once have trusted. Jay was an investigative journalist that broke the Panama Papers. He earned his first field surprise for National Coverage of the financial crisis in 2011. Hes written for the national post, the guardian and has appeared on bbc, nbc, cnn and npr. He was the editor of the texas observer. Lets give a warm welcome. [applause] wow. All right. It is great to be here. It is great to see so many old friends that we havent seen a long time. Thank you so much to books and books and to mitchell kaplan, proprietor of this wonderful bookstore. I dont know if you all know but mitchell now makes movies in addition to selling books in his latest is currently in theaters called the man who invented christmas. My wife and i saw the other day and it was delightful. The secrecy world. What is it . It in compasses an entire shadow economy. It increases tax havens and also places that offer secret Bank Accounts like switzer
You think the source is . And i just to the extent that you can say time and date and if you will, accountable individual who you think is the Decision Maker or the impediment, i would like that answer as succinctly as possible. Miss buller . In my case its very easy to pinpoint the time and the person. The passage of the act mandating the restrictive reporting was the impetus. The person was the general counsel. Basically, he has taken the opportunity to interpret the act to impede our access. Mr. Elkins . In my case, you know, i have two agencies that i oversee, the csb and Environmental Protection agency. In both cases, i have to say that issues relative to access starts at the top with a clear message from the top that access will be granted, it will be granted. To the extent that there is a muddled message or the message is not clear, you end up in situations that we have here today. Some of the on the csb side of the house, the issues started back in 2010, 2011. On the epa side o
That is simply not the case will go on the road. The audiences go crazy. They dont see vitality like this on stage. We are capable of conveying joy when we play. Msk music any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you havent heard before. String orchestra repertoire is pretty small. I used to be boxed into small repertoire. I kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. If you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. Is our gift. Msk music and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. The most challenging of all. String orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. The challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. I cant tell you how aw
Recertificationing the preparation of the findings. While the conversation have been productive, the work ask not yet done i would like to ask for a motion to continue this item to the 21st of martian, moved by supervisor camp pose and seconded by supervisor farrell. These items will be continued to march. Item 22 is aance amending the health and transportation codes to prohibit smoking at certain out door events on property owned by the city and establishing the obligations to notify the public that the event is smokefree. Colleagues can we get same house same call. Without objection this item is passed item 23. Item agree the Electronic Filing will campaign statements submitted to the ethics condition. Same house same call this item is passed. Item 24 is amending the code to create the capital cost repayment surcharge fund. Same call, this item is passed. Item 25 is an ordinance appropriating 2. 6 million from the general reserve for the gross receipts tax implementation planning for
Ill be calling upon the city to build on these and to look at these kind of strategies to make sure that we protect our residents from bike theft and im looking forward to Seat Research at a hearing of the new neighborhood safety and Services Committee that i sit on with chair supervisor campos and normany as well and also on saturday, i was happy to be at the community inauguration at our citys supervisor avalos and i were enjoying the Community Spirit that was will and alhando said that he wants to see poetry come into all chambers of government and so i look forward to his ideas and supporting those in strengthening our community with poetry and i also want to say that i tended on sun day a ceremony with maritally and it was a civil rights heros by the asian caucus and other and is our great alumni of San Francisco state and dany tbloiver was the m c and he was wonderful and but he gave property props and recognition to some of the Asian Pacific islander communities like [name . ] a