With an official proclamation read and signed by Mayor Julie Moore-Wolfe on May 3
rd, Historic Preservation Week in Decatur will be celebrated May 16th- 22
nd with a full week’s worth of activities beginning Sunday.
The annual event is sponsored by History of the Heartland. Members of the committee have reached out to numerous organizations involved in historic preservation and beautification to offer opportunities to participate during the activities of the week and beyond. The goal of the organization is to promote local history and historic preservation & beautification, become a clearinghouse of information to assist with future community efforts, and shine the spotlight on projects and success stories. The vision includes enhanced community awareness and engagement to assist in preserving our rich history and beautification of the community.
ago. and as we said, waves of runners taking off for the next half-hour or so. three lanes of the golden gate bridge are going to be closed until 9:00 this morning because they are going to cross there. several city streets will be closed. the marathon will wind its way throughout the city after crossing the golden gate bridge. runners are going to go through golden gate park, they are going to go past at&t park before crossing the finish line at cupid s arrow near the ferry building. now here they go, this next wave of these runners. we will be keeping an eye on them throughout the morning. we have some developing news out of contra costa county. a two-year-old boy is at children s hospital in oakland, this morning, after being malled by his babysitter s pit bull last night. family members tell us he does not have life-threatening injuries but he was bitten on the head. officers with contra costa county animal offices arrived on california street shortly after that inciden
president meeting with them. clearly some advisors are. clearly they have a lot of healing to do with the base of the party. the key for him is turn out. he s going the get the black vote. he s going to get the hispanic vote. but what s the%age going to be in terms of turnout. that made all the difference in the last election. reed wilson 95% of the black vote in virginia if it s 15% of the lek rat doesn t matter. if the black vote makes up 20% of the black vote in virginia, the president wins. that s got huge ramifications for the rest of the state as well. dick cain to keep the democrat seat. it s a virginia, it s a north carolina, where in particular where the president base of african-americans and younger voters and new voters in those two states in particular. you brought up the point about pennsylvania being a sign that democrats are trouble. the new swing states are not ohio or pennsylvania or the upper midwest. it s virginia and north carolina
we have luke russert on capitol hill watching the senate vote. looks pretty predictable. the only interesting things at this point for a lot of us political junkies are watching certain senators and how they might vote in primaries, a dick luger, dean heller the new senator from nevada. other than that, we know how this vote s going to go. reporter: this thing is signed, sealed and delivered. we expected according to the interview you had earlier this morning with john cornen about 70 to 75 senators are going to come on. it s interesting a lot of us thought the senate would go first to try to give cover to house members saying i m from your home state. i supported this, go ahead and do the same. they wanted to do the inverse i m told by house gop aide that they wanted the house to go first so members wouldn t have to worry if their senators supported it or not. it looks like 75 votes from the senate. that bill i m told will immediately be brought over to 1600 pennsylvania a