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2013 was the driest year on record. 2014 was the warmest year on record. Here we were already two years into drought. Any residual moisture just gets baked out of the soil by that excess heat and sucked up by the plants and its gone. Setting the stage for worst wildfires, tougher to grow things, all these drought impacts become that much worse in that situation. In reporting in the past, ive tried to ask the question, yeah, but how much worse does this actually make the drought . Nobody really h...

Some payback to them other families for the loan they have taken out. We need to make sure you can get done in fouregree years. There are great programs around the country. One i admire is a program called tennessee promise, where every student who participates, gets done, the first two years, and Community College , free of tuition. It requires mentors and personal responsibility and that is the kind of approach we need. We need more kids graduating with a grease of purpose so they can live an ...

Thank you. Listen, madam chairman and members of the Democratic National committee, the Resolutions Committee met on and approved 30, 23 resolutions which were a combination of message resolutions and members of resolutions. Among those considered and resolution in support of marriage equality, a commemoratingmitte those murdered in charleston, affirming thatn black lives do indeed matter. , in addition we passed some commemorative resolutions, and if it is one thing ive learned over the years i...

Cleaning. My name is paul johnson. Carmen foreman of the roanoke times. She covers state politics for the university of virginia. She will be asking questions of the candidates, and i will be keeping track of the time. Together, we will work to cover as much ground as possible tonight while providing candidates an opportunity to discuss some of the issues especially affecting southwest virginia and the commonwealth today. We have made every possible effort tonight to ensure the fairness of these...

All lanes for a time. No injuries were reported. The cause of the crash still under investigation tonight. Camden is continuing its push to demolish vacant and abandoned buildings in the city. Officials want to get rid of these eyesores to pave the way for redevelopment. Nora muchanic has an update on the efforts to rid camdens neighborhoods of polite. Reporter heavy equipment is demolishing an old medical office on the 1200 block of kaighn avenue in camdens gateway neighborhood. The city is usi...

Tale of two cities. We have high schools that for the last 20 years have won the academic decathlon, and others that are dropout factories. Unfortunately that is determined by zip code. The poor communities where 98 of the kids are in poverty are somehow not giving the same level of certified teachers and books and support they need in those schools. Let me go to use since it is the Second Largest School District in the country, with 600,000 kids. District in the country with 6000 kids, what to ...

Tale of two cities. We have high schools that for the last 20 years have won the academic decathlon, and others that are dropout factories. Unfortunately that is determined by zip code. The poor communities where 98 of the kids are in poverty are somehow not giving the same level of certified teachers and books and support they need in those schools. Let me go to use since it is the Second Largest School District in the country, with 600,000 kids. District in the country with 6000 kids, what to ...

Coming their way. Insight andir information is ignored, it often leads to consequences that might have been averted. Friday at 8 00 eastern, Harvard University sociologist and author William Julius wilson. Every citizen does not fully understand the complex forces that have increased, for example, their economic woes. Economic insecurities create conditions that are breeding grounds for racial and at intention. This week at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Tonight on the communicators. Inthe things i care...

Community. This panel was part of the National Afterschool summit hosted by the Arnold Schwarzenegger institute for state and local policy at the university of southern california. This is about 35 minutes. [applause] monica, im going to start with you and pick up on something we talked about. Is this just spoiling them . I always said when i was secretary of education we have high schools that when the National Decathlon and we have high schools that are like dropout factories. Unfortunately, t...

I think that is a fair question. Can i jump in . Lets go back to an issue that elizabeth raised earlier. Go right ahead. I want to dig in deeper on this sort of plain text of the language issue and alito focusing on at least the housing case, you just look at the plaintext of the law as it was written in 1968. And if the plaintext of the lot as it was written in 1968 did it mean to include the disparate impact, you cannot include disparate impact. But in opposition to that justice, it went to a ...