We have a quorum. Commissioners, before you, we have the minutes of november 12. Are there any additions or corrections . I would like to move the item. Second. Is there any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor. Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item. Item 4 is general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Mr. Decosta. Commissioners, today i want to give you my subjective opinion on some very important matters linked to the river. So any way you look at it, you have to go back years, thousands of years, to the tribes that preserved and protected and performed their sacred rituals. Very important when we talk about cultural competency. We talk about cultural competency, equity and resiliency but we dont know the meaning of those words. If we did, we would be more serious. So at times, there are some individuals, and im one of those, i like to talk about thos
And to have cspan here taping this to show on television is just icing on the cake. My job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her grad titstude work to go to work as a copy editor. After three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Tonight she will be having a conversation with Caroline Frazier. Caroline frazier is the editor of the library america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books. Her latest book is prairie fires, the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls wilder. It was one of the New York Times ten best book
We have kept ms. Fraser busy. We have had wonderful crowds turn out each time. Of the books. Ut it has been very satisfying. And to have cspan here taping this to show on television is the icing on the cake. It is such a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. [applause] jane my job tonight is to introduce two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the editor at post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis. She graduated with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her work as a grad student in english to go to work as a copy editor for the st. Louis globe democrat. She returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer of the features department for 30 years. As a book editor, she assigns 300edits book reviews from or so new books each week. She has written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors including salman rushdie. And so tonigh
Even heard of. So crooked schiff is a corrupt politician. He looks all over. Tries to find people who dont like trump and he puts them up. We are winning so big. The democrats arent alone in their hatred of the president. The leftwing media has been undermining the populist America First agenda. The president slamming the media for their strition behavior. For their vicious behavior. President trump from the day i came in here i have had problems with phoney stuff. Like a phoney dossier. Like false investigations. So a lot of my behavior was shaped by the fake news and by the other side. Gregg despite the efforts of the left wing the president is fostering a soaring economy, standing up to the chinese years of theft and making the military and the station stronger. President trump this is a crooked deal. Its like the fake dossier. These are crooked people. They lost the election and they lost it big. It was a slapped slide from the electric torment college standpoint. And they are goin
A significant adversary in a variety of ways. And finally we have a president standing up to them. This is important. As you point out. More almost half a century we have socalled engaged the chinese. President trump says no this is not working for the United States. And its not working for the rest of the world either. What was important and significant, last month we had the Vice President and secretary of state . Twin speeches tell the chinese that we are heading to a fundamental rupture. This is something beijing needs to hear. . Gregg its not just the trade imbalance. But one of the great jettest threats is the chinese are notorious thieves. They steal American Technology. Now with 6g, what does that mean . The 6th generation of wireless communication. We dont know exactly how it will differ from 5g. People are just starting to think about the concepts. But 5g is a major development. On 5g almost every device in the world will be connected to the internet of things. That means the