Plans moving forward removing the snow and the concerns with drivers. Another snow day in newark. Traffic was parallelized. It is a complete nightmare. I left at 5 30. It took one hour and and a half for 5. 5 miles. It is crazy. Reporter the street should have been cleared by late morning billion in the day dash to if you look at the side street, it is definite lay mess. They immediate to do a much better job. Reporter some streets remained impassable. Others so narrow, only one car at tame to get through. Drivers turning to twitter and turning on each other to vent their anger. Everybody. Reporter at News Conference today, the mayor says progress has been made. Clear the snow and open the streets. I want to let them know. You will do this block by block until it actually gets done. Reporter during the News Conference today, the mayor announced school will be back open tomorrow morning. That is why a lot of the snow removal was focus around the schools this evening. Reporting from newa
Defendant, even though it now appears that faa fisa amendment acts were used in criminal prosecutions. There was a great story about this by Charlie Savage about the fact that the solicitor general, when he argued to the Supreme Court, represented to the court that fisa amendments act requires removal defendants to receive notice when the government is prosecuting them on the basis of evidence derived from the fisa amendments act. It turns out not to have been the Justice Departments policy. Their policy was to deny defendants notice, even in circumstances in which they were entitled to it under the statute and constitution. They have changed that policy, which is a good. It seems there is a disconnect between the Justice Department and some of the security agencies about what has to be released and what can be done to ensure what you have said. That data needs to be revealed to the defense. I do not think there is a disconnect between the department of justice and the intelligence age
Food and nutrition, counseling to pregnant women and the mothers of infants and children up to age 5. Wi skrshgs food for babies, food that includes baby formula, an expense that can run up to 2,000 for the first year of life. Lets be clear. Kids and babies who could go hungry if we dont open for business soon. The Government Shutdown is serious. And the political reeyal ti of letting little ones go hungry may be sinking in for House Republicans. Friday, they voted to, quote, refund wic, but only after there was a major outcry in the media about it, and still without an offer to fund the rest of the government. Something that advocates for wic called a cynical ploy to use lowincome, nutritionally atrisk mothers and Young Children as political pawns for political ends. That could not take the place of actual longterm funding. So instead of producing serious alternatives, washington just keeps on giving us nuggets of absurdity. We here in nerdland are big fans of political absurdity so,
But to prepare citizens with the minds, hearts and character to disdain or democracy in the future. Built on hope, not fear, encouragement not threat, on inspiration, not compulsion. I trust. Im releasing the dignity of the person, not devotion to data. Unsupportive mutual respect, not a machine of punishment and blame. And the last thing to revive collaboration humor, student, parents, teachers, principals, administrators and local communities. The american system is democratically controlled schools has been the mainstay of our communities and the foundation for a nation success. We must Work Together to improve public schools. They must extend the promise of equal Educational Opportunity to all the children of our nation, protecting our products goes against privatization, saving them for future generations of American Children is a civil rights issue of our time. Thank you very much. [applause] nonbook tv, molly raskin text that it had them and, and not addition to cofounded a comp
My shoulder and any president that puts his hand on your shoulder gets your attention. Reagan was one of those historic figures. He said look it took us half a century to get into this mess. I have been the first seven years. Maybe you guys will have to do the heavy lifting on your own later. This is particularly special to me because so many people in this room have been a part of the process of my writing the book. I mean, everybody. Im looking around and seeing people who counseled me through the book proposal writing process and encouraged me when i thought i could never get it done, friends who called me up to find out about how the book was doing, my family, husbands here, so many people here who basically help me get a book done, and so its really awesome to be sitting here tonight in a room full of people who have supported me along the way. I even think, actually, over a couple years ago when we moved to maplewood six years ago getting coffee across the street, with a lot of y