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Discussions in terms of mayor, two thirds of the board of supervisors, the Retiree Health Care Trust Fund board, that again has its fiduciary duty to the retirees of those assets and i believe the controller as well as the actualal and someone out of the political system and not to mention the controller as well, not to mention the Board Members of the trust fund that have different duties than we do. I understand if we just put in there that the mayor and the board of supervisors could change t...

Memorandum that wouldnt inform anybody but unfortunately at the time the developer wanted the full text included to make it harder to gather signatures. I think you know colleagues what happened there were very heavy books that were circulated to collect 31,000 signatures to qualify to place the measure on the ballot to reverse our decision last year, the first referendum on a board ordinance to qualify in more than 20 years. Now given this measure has qualified i think the city will incur massi...

Of the goldfinch. This is a conversation we recorded at the frick museum where the goldfinch was on exhibition. The journey that i want to take the reader on always is the journey that i loved most when i was reading as a child just this galloping gleeful you dont know whats going to happen next and i dont want my books ever to be an Amusement Park ride that is sort of very predictable up, down, up, down and you wind around the track and end up in the same place. I want the car to jump the track...

Our coverage from the 2014 roosevelt reading festival continues with amitiy shlase on the Great Depression. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is bob clark and im the deputy directyear her tee franklin d. Roosevelt president ial lie area and museum, and its my honor to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. Before i introduce our distinguished speaker, let in go over a couple of housekeeping things. Would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so we...

This is a conversation we recorded at the frick museum where the goldfinch was on exhibition. The journey that i want to take the reader on always is the journey that i loved most when i was reading as a child just this galloping gleeful you dont know whats going to happen next and i dont want my books ever to be an Amusement Park ride that is sort of very predictable up, down, up, down and you wind around the track and end up in the same place. I want the car to jump the track. I want the car t...

Morning. We are tracking a couple of showers along on. Pl. Rnveninbody to the west of ther this is a light rain. Nothing to be concerned goourkg roo ligs wining bne. Ng detected there. Most of this will not hold together ihad it hea out toward most of this will not hold together ihad it hea out toward we cant rule out an isolated shower. Temperatures are pretty comfoftegole. Temperatures are pretty comfoftegole. 76 in dc. Its going to be another warm and muggy one. Showers and tor be possible. A...

Get together and make things better by working together its a simple message and it comes from the heart believe in yourself for thats the place to start and i say hey hey what a wonderful kind of day if we could learn to work and play and get along with each other. Hey what a wonderful kind of day hey what a wonderful kind of day. Hey arthur hey, d. W. Hey whoa crash um. clears throat you might want to think about. Shh i want to do it myself okay, okay. Sometimes i dont think d. W. Really appre...

Courted and fell in love with a woman and married a second time. He wrote thousands of passionate love letters to each of these women. This was a real living breathing human being and i dont think we have seen that about woodrow wilson. Next Diane Mcwhorter on her look carry me home birmingham, alabama the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution. She focuses on the 1963 bombing of the 16th st. Church that killed four young girls in times when the police try to disperse young demonstrator...

Protest of George Wallaces segregation now, segregation forever a doctoral address. And for the first time they had said its wrong and that was a really notable departure for someone to make a public statement. We listened to that now and it just seems so trivial for somebody to say that but at the time they were really going out on a limb. So when they get this back from king you know they go you are so misunderstood and when i interviewed him in the 80s he was still complaining about how king ...

Members were contingent and unsecure with their jobs. Now its over 70 . That trend seems to be continuing. The trend of state legislatures defunding Higher Education gradually shifting the cost from taxpayers to students, thats now a 25 year trend. Trends like that dont always and quickly. I think theres a future for state funding in higher Public Education is not great. Both of those things do not mind mote bode well for maintaining Higher Education. If i were to recommend anything i would reco...