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July 16, 2024
Supervisor walton present. Clerk commissioner yee . Ie absent. We have quorum. Chair peskin because we are a subdivision of the state of california, the next item, which madam clerk will read, is noticed pursuant to state law and the governors executive order. Madam clerk, can you please read item number two. Clerk acknowledge and adopt meet notice and meeting conduct requirements pursuant to the governors executive order n2920. This is an action item. Chair peskin okay. Councillor, anything tha...
July 16, 2024
Introduction and introduce our wonderful guests tonight. Lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the White House Historical association. She is the author of the new book the cabinet George Washington and the creation of an american institution. She is widely published. I had the great pleasure of interviewing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Lindsay thank you so much for having me. Jeffrey ...
July 16, 2024
Field. Thank you for being here tonight. We are thrilled to have you. We will hear a brief hesitation from susan swain, copresident and chief executive officer of cspan, and coauthor of the president s. She will be joined by brian lam, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating an esteemed group of historians discussing the american presidency. The american presidency is, as you know, a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. [laughter] in the constitution, there is...
July 16, 2024
That changed a world series on a missed call. And im sure they probably wanted it back then too. Itd probably changed their lives a little. [smith] what do you think about limiting mound vits. That was an innovation within the last year or so, right . They intro hced that you could one six mound visits in a game. [clemens] yeah, right. So, i kid out trying to do the speed up in the games. [smith] cause all of our kids have no attention span. They want everything over faster. They think its a vid...
July 16, 2024
Good evening, [inaudible] [applause] to introduce our speaker for this evening who will tell you, Leeanna Keith teaches history at the Collegiate School for boys in new york city. She is the author of the colfax massacre. [inaudible] [inaudible] please join me in welcoming Leeanna Keith. [applause] thank you everybody. Forgive me for remaining seated. Im going to tell you what happened to me. I know you want to know how i broke my legs. They sideswiped me. I feel very lucky to be here at all. No...
July 16, 2024
As seen on the screen. Then follow the system prompts. Youll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When you wish to speak on an item, dial 10 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak. When your two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be taken in the order of which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn the down your television. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30second lag...
July 16, 2024
Quarter of a century ago i came to milwaukee and blood as red about Franklin Delano roosevelt so he wanted to meet me to talk about history keand i wanted to meet him to talk about baseball so always theres been a push and pull, whats happening in baseball, whats happening in the country and weve had this great relationship. I became great friends with his family. Weve been to hall of fame games together, we went to japan for the opening day about the red sox and all this time but would tell me ...
July 16, 2024
Tonight we present Nigel Hamilton with his trilogy on fdr war and peace the final odyssey. His unpublished documents and interviews he rewrites a famous account of world war ii strategy given by churchill 75 years after the dday landing we can see closeup and in dramatic detail who was responsible for rescuing and insisting upon france of june 1944. The coup detat turns to personal tragedy over the course of the disease as he was commanderinchief to prepare the United Nations for the post world ...
July 16, 2024
Gov. Walz good afternoon, minnesota. Our press pool is here. Grateful youre all here. Id like to send a message to minnesotans, last time we were here we announced wed do a homemade cloth facemask drive to see how many we could collect and minnesotan responded, as minnesotans do, with about 130,000 of those masks delivered to fireds across and every single one of them participated, across the state. Those are getting out to our longterm care providers, some of the folks that we need to get them....
July 16, 2024
Reopen and companies to bring 50 of their workforce back to the office. He was asked about testing and the strategy for Contact Tracing to help combat the coronavirus. A quick update, 10,868 confirmed cases. We have 506 deaths. Deathdo passed the 500 mark. We knew we would. There are many more ahead and our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of those who have lost their lives due to this deadly virus. I know everyone is eager to hear more about this next phase, the safer at home phase,...