Our country and every municipality is looking at issues of aging and the ways in which the values of the country, state, local, exercise those into services and understandings of the way people age and the kinds of services they need. I am wondering if you can give a short history of what department of aging and Adult Services here is in San Francisco. Certainly. San francisco has a long history of providing services for older adults and adults with disabilities. We are a leader in that. The department has been around for a long time but came together with services in 2000. Our Biggest Program is in Home Supportive Services which provides home care for 22,000 people in San Francisco. We do other things as well. So the department in and of itself is 17 years old. Yes. The department itself. The city was providing the services well before that. Yes. So what is new on the horizon . There are a lot of things on the horizon that are new. One of the things thats new and i think ramona and i
Good evening. I am glad to be here with you for the first lecture in the Supreme Court Historical Societys series, this Supreme Court and the civil war revisited. The timing is just right, for this year marks the 150th anniversary of the war between the states. A bit about the society which i joined many years before i got this good job. And i remain among the legions of supporters of the societys many endeavors. Some of them dorothy mentioned. This society has been a key player in improving public understanding of the court and its role in the constitutional framework of our government. Regular attendees of these lectures know how engaging they have been. And i appreciate, too, Something Else dorothy mentioned. The societys preening program for high schoolteachers and the books produced by the society are works well conceived and good to read. Among my favorites, claire cushmans court watches, eyewitness accounts in Supreme Court history. It is a collection of welltold anecdotes about
The case than concerned its ship and cargo and the issue of freedom was derivative. A slave sues his master. Ironically, paying close attention to the stipulated facts does not bring the image into focus. It renders the image less clear. That a missouri slave would sue a new york master for freedom is baffling, to say the least. Even more perplexing is the question of how the case ever happened at all. Among the famous and famously notorious cases, the circumstances of dred scott are the least well understood. The facts are stipulated on appeal. Reading them leaves the unsettling sense that there was something missing. Several justices in the opinions written by each of them repeat the fact statement verbatim in texts of their several opinions. And this choice to repeat the stipulated facts verbatim in the texts signals that perhaps the justices themselves found the facts somewhat incongruous because they did not paraphrase the salient features. They simply repeated the whole. By the t
Opposition on the council. The vice mayor worries about lawsuits and reprizeals from banks. It lowers value of the properties in the city of richmond lending instit yult yoougss will not lend where youve taken and used eminent domain. Councilman baits is concerned its supposed to prevent blight in neighborhoods the investing partner targeted nicer homes. Theyre cherry picking. That is what they do. They cherry pick, pick out those that they can make greatest degree of profit its worth noting the councilmans underwater in his mortgage but does not want help. The same cannot be said for patty, who signed up for eminent doen domain if it ever happens, anything, she said to keep alive her dream of homeownership. We were rather eat rice and beans and tortillas to have our home here. Four people, including a child were injured when two cars collided in west oakland. The crash happened on 8th and union streets. Firefighters had to use jaws of live to rescue one person in a vehicle. A potentia
Crisis is by no means over in one city. Yes. Homeowners still in dire straits, city leaders have a plan calling for drastic action, some are worried about the consequences. Wayne fraedman is live tonight to explain why. Wayne . Its a new twist for putting leverage on banks not by individuals this time, but by a city government. It would be a first. In richmond roughly half of the homes in the city are worth less than paid for them. By the time its the last week of march, of the month, were stretched. Patty and her husband paid 425,000 for this home, its now lost more than half of the value. Tonight she has hope. If the bank and wall street got bailed out how come we dont get bailed out . We call on bafrks to really dot right thing. After months, the city Council Voted to move head with possibly using Eminent Domain to buy underwater mortgages and with an Investment Group force banks to renegotiate. The councilman myrick voted in favor. We sent letters to the different investors for eac