70 of santa clara voters approved a handsome sales tax measure to fund this. Nearly 2 take decades later, they are still waiting. Officials say that last nights vote appears to be finally, going to happen. This is about as close to breaking down breaking ground as i have seen. This is good news. Bringing the light rail there , because a lot of people ride the light rail that go to work. Reporter they transfer to the light rail, they approved an Environmental Impact report. According to the spokesperson days. The board had to approve another round of Environmental Impact reports because so much of the project had change. The light rail was a mix of rail and the new project now outlines the can bleakly elevated rail system. Reporter the change is not inconsequential. Nearly 2 decades ago they passed measure a, but the sales tax money lagged between the boom and bust of the early 2000. The money slow down, a trickle down to less than we expected. All the while, this project kept getting p
Coverup trial. I understand people were convicted. But you need to understand lawyers dont play fair, they argue two things. They can argue the person didnt do the crime, the person isnt guilty. Politicaly in a scandal, the argument is, there wasnt enough proof to find them guilty without guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Very high standard. It is not that they were blameless. Its not that they were innocent. We say we would rather let 100 guilty go free than convict one innocent man. We are loading it to a very high standard. Things that are that lawyers argue is procedure. That evidenceget into the court room properly, then it cant come in. Exculpatoryt share information properly with the defense, those are procedural violations, which can equally. Nvalidate a verdict i am happy to argue both. That is what we are going to go through. One word from last week, last week was the allure of the white house tapes. What i went what i find fascinating i transcribed them. I worked word for wo
First we have dana grisham who is chief of staff to senator doug jones in alabama senator who filled the seed from the vacancy from departing senator jeff sessions. Also joining us is amgenentative dalby, comey you will be the new republican staff director on that panel. To both of you, what is a chief of staff . Rep. Daulby the chief of staff is the person that makes the trains run in the office. No two days are the same. Generally you are the person that is the gatekeeper for the member and helping them advocate on behalf of their constituents. You are making sure that calendar is in place and you are responding to calendar inquiries, you are over viewing all the letters that come in. You are Touching Every aspect of the office and making for the legislative team and Scheduling Team and Communications Team are all working to make it an efficient office. Rep. Daulby rep. Gresham i would agree with that assessment. Another key component of being a chief of staff is being a leader and e
Good morning. The meeting on Homeland Security subcommittees on Cyber Security and Infrastructure Protection will come to order. The subcommittees are meeting today to receive testimony regarding the Cyber Security posture of this nations aviation sector. Ill recognize myself for an opening statement. Im grateful to be holding here this morning with my good holding this hearing this morning with my good friend, i want to thank him for convening this hearing with me today to examine the topics. I have always said that Cyber Security is National Security. Traditional avenues of attack are what percentage mind. These threats like hijackings and bombings will continue to pose a major security concern moving forward. However as devices, aircraft, and systems become more interconnected, Cyber Security will increasingly play a larger role in Aviation Security. That is because nation states, and hackers all ess this phase will always be crowded by malicious actors seeking to do us harm. That i
All right. Thank you. I know weve got some great conversations going on out there, but we want to get right into this next panel which is going to be a really compelling one. You might remember about a year ago a little over a year ago winter of 2021 the texas power outage that made the National News and was such a disaster. So this next panel is going to talk about avoiding blackouts the future of Us Energy Policy and Lessons Learned from the winter 2021 texas power outage, and i know theyre going to talk about the Global Crisis as well. Im going to introduce the Panel Moderator and then theyre going to come on to the stage and then she will introduce the panelists. Jackie picked deason is host of the jackie daly show which educates entertains and engages america on all things energy. You really should check out her podcast. So wherever you find your podcasts you will find the jackie daley show it airs sundays on the blaze. Com radio and errors on the dial in texas each saturday, and