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Coverage live of the house and senate and also the Certain Committee hearings. I think they are very informative to the public to get to see what really happens in congress. I like the way cspan covers the fact that it just presents itself what is really happening with a little bit of commentary maybe, but not really edited out. It is just what they want to present to the american people. Bill watches cspan on comcast. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Publi...

Rick perlstein, in your third book,in that period from 1962 to 1976, you talk about being a dark time in our history. I am talking about global warming, look at the ebola crisis. Of course, the middle east is blowing up again. In america, the crisis of inequality, we kind of have a new normal of which 7 or 8 of unemployed it is ok, the skyrocketing of inequality, the bankers that seem to be able to get away with everything, but, the 1970s were really awful too. Here you are, 13 years ago when yo...

Guest i dont think it was a coincidence that during the Foreign Policy debate, mitt romney kept bringing it back to the economy. Most people turning in were not going to be paying that close attention to some of the Foreign Policy issues, and i dont think many \ voters go to the polls to vote based on what our decisions will be with china or cuba, for that matter. But they do vote with their pocketbooks. Statewide unemployment in florida is 8. 7 , but it is much higher in various pockets of flor...

When we talk about organizing a around a singular principal, i dont think the solution is necessarily to consolidate around existing labor movements. It is not necessarily to formulate a third party platform. The solution is to use these tools and use these bodies in order to consolidate power and to use that power to challenge the way in which decisions are made fundamentally. I would like to have time for questions from the audience. Please go to one of the of mikes so it can be sure to hear y...

Your second book nixonland, starts with the watts riots and goes through nixons landside in 1972. What is a person with your personal views of politics doing spending all this time with conservatives in this country . That takes us back a ways. I started this project in 1997, and, i might have told you last time, let me know if i am repeating myself, i was fascinated with the 1960s when i was growing up. I went to the renaissance bookstore in wisconsin. It was full of used books and used magazin...

Todays program where delighted to have missed. She flung who leased the executive director of court on the Cultural Arts foundation paint i want to talk about her experiences in raising awareness over like in taiwan. Well come to the pool then she came in to it that way. Yes one leg is said that the beginning of the pool then the lot of people will perceive light that something as a kid that in our dating lives. And the hollow well find your perspective based on your observation. How do people e...

To see us get a jump on this year given your focus on the Community Aspect of the event is some investment for our skate board parks. We get a lot of feedback from folks that they like to see more elements or additional parks and i know that we had started that conversation last year but we didnt have enough time to make it real and i would really encourage you to work with dana where we can get the right staff in the room so we can do special when the event has ended and add a couple of element...

Reimbursement because were monitoring the set up 11,000. Theres 10 million in ago gre gate. And that have been approved. Staff is recommending approval of this event. Thank you. We do have one card. Public comment, chris, if you recommending approval of this event. Thank you. We do have one card. Public comment, chris, if you could come forward, please. I want to say thank you for your consideration and thank you for your support last year. We enjoyed a very successful event. I dont have a lot t...

This day . Normally, things we will not get to are things we will lead with. Absolutely. History being made on wall street as alibaba makes its wall street debut with a 21. 8 billion ipo, the biggest ever in the United States. The chinas ecommerce pricing at 68 a share. Gives alibaba a market value about 168 billion surpassing disney, boeing and amazon. It will trade under ticker baba. Earlier alibabas executive chairman jack ma held court outside the big board amid hundreds of members of the pr...

There are new efforts that i will call on the legislature to adopt. However we should make our First Priority implementing the reforms we have already passed. I recently released opportunity mississippi which is my Strategic Plan for the state. In that document i outlined benchmarks for education works reforms. College and Career Readiness among High School Students has become the centerpiece of change and advancement. We must aim to reduce our High School Dropout rate a 10 by 2017. If properly ...