meeting. madam clerk, do you have any comments? clerk: yes. the board recognizes public access to city services is essential and invites public participation in the following ways. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda and sfgovtv.org is streaming the call-in information on your screen. the number is 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. today is 2499-520-1468. then press pound and pound again. when and made part of the official file. written comments may also be sent by the u.s. postal service to san francisco city hall, 1 carlton b. goodlett place, room 204, san francisco, california, 94102. supervisor melgar: thank you, madam clerk. please call the first item. [agenda item read]. supervisor melgar: thank you, madam clerk. we made substantive amendments to this item last week. today, we have the legislative aide to supervisor chan here today. hello, supervisor melgar and supervisors. thank you for hearing this items, and i m happy to answer any que
i thought it was going to be morbid humor column. a humor column. either i was not funny enough or the audience is further to the left and are not rooting for you so that you. that changed. maybe every other column is political. that is where my interests have gone, i learned you have to trust your interests, what are you passionate about the week. that is what you want to share with readers. i have come to believe that religious, cultural, and moral investigations or what i care most about at this stage in life and what we need and culture. we have a tone of political commentary but how to think about eternal life, we do not have public figures. we used to have that that e internal life, we do not have public figures. one thing that got my attention is your sidney awards that you give out. ms. interview today this interview is going to be about your writing and your thinking about when did that start but when did that start? it is the best articles from that
david brooks: i thought it was going to be a humor column. either i was not funny enough or the audience is further to the left and are not rooting for you so that changed. maybe every other column is political. that is where my interests have gone. i learned you have to trust your interests, what are you passionate about this week. that is what you want to share with readers. i have come to believe that religious, cultural, and moral investigations or what i care most about at this stage in life and what we need in the culture. we have a tone of political commentary but how to think about internal life, we do not have public figures. brian lamb: one thing that got my attention is your sidney awards that you give out. this interview is going to be about your writing and your thinking but when did that start? david brooks: it is the best articles from that year. the idea is that they come out around the christmas week, between christmas and new year s, and that that is a good
brian lamb: why are they named after sidney hook? david brooks: because he was a reflective philosopher. i was at stanford at the hoover institution and we had coffee and cookies. and there was one table where the economists sat, milton friedman. and the other was sidney hook. and i got to choose which table to sit at. i remember one time, he explained the problem of evil over about three hours. six or seven or eight of us just listening to him. he is an exemplar of a person who is passionately engaged in politics but also reflective and well educated. if the news is here, sidney hook was up here. the idea was to lift us up from the day to day flow of events. and so it seemed to me he was someone with celebrating, so i named it or him. named it after him. brian lamb: you talked for three hours but what was his basic point about evil and god? david brooks: people have wrestled with this problem, why does a benevolent god allow children to die? if he solved that one, then he