In 2007 when i retired for my 35 year career in Investment Real Estate i met my friend phil tang saying i want to get more involved in Government Services oh was initially appointed in the fall of 07. From that point on it was a complete roller coaster. As you know we entered the initial downturn and the number of appeals went from 1000 to less than 2000 year at the assessment appeal board one by dan to ran up to 5000 appeals in 21 201011 could swipe witnessed the actions of the board and don durrant and the Assessors Office under phil tang and no carmen chu and chief appraiser matt thomas as well as the board and the additional board three to accommodate the dominantly homeowners in the evening with their appeals and all of us about to make dramatic changes in how we became more efficient, more knowledgeable andcapable particularly at the Assessors Office coming before the board. Im an opportunity to do that as well as interpret the revenue and taxation codes board of equalization, as
As a 17yearold, i couldnt understand. Reading this anthology i finally understood what it meant to be in a community with folks writing for and in some ways putting our community on our back and going where we are going. But i think it is much more daring in this American Literary enterprise to write to your folks. Its hard to say that in this room that is mostly white life of a young black folks out there im talking to you when i say this, it is imperative. You cant love somebody if you dont communicate to them. We will tell you to communicate over. It is a necessity to understand you come from a people who made a living two and four the deep south. [applause] i think we are out of time. This has been a great panel. [applause] [inaudible conversations] senator lamar alexander, if somebody asked you for a recommendation for a book aboutn tennessee or tennessee history, what would you recommend . Ale alex stewart. He was a barrel maker. He lived in Hancock County which is one of our rem
You will see the fantastic schedule. Authors will not necessarily be on immediately after the Panel Suggests check the author name and time on the brochure. We are delighted to have cspan broadcasting live this morning so welcome to jackson. The panel will also be shown at october so if you want to review it again. Thank you for the state legislature for the use of the facilities today and also the authors and moderators for being with us this morning. The first panel was sponsored by the university of mississippi friends of the university library. Now i will introduce the Panel Moderator this morning from mississippi who received her ba from Stanford University and from the university of michigan. She served as the resident in mississippi and was the author of the novel where the line we goboth won the National Book awd for fiction. Shes also the editor of this new book just out this month. We are at work as the associate professor writing at Tulane University she lives in mississippi
Studies and culture at the university of virginia and a visiting scholar for Public Knowledge of writes about culture and the arts, and is currently at work on a book about walking and garnett is at the end, im reading these out of order. [applause] honoring the jeffers who is rite next to garnett, is a poet and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts and the foundation to the library of congress. She is the author of four books of poetry is at work on a fifth and exploration of the life and times, of phyllis weekly. [applause] keep na jones has been published, in pr, crash magazine, and she has received fellow shps from penn center, usa, and, is currently a candidate in fiction and rodney jack school lar, in the program for writers. [applause] fugely, a i so yet professor of english and African Studies and a resent writer, at the university of mississippi. He is the author of the novel long division. How to slowly kill yourself and others in america and a for
Here and now. As the president ial Campaign Heats up, fists have been flying along with the expected political rhetoric. Critics are accusing republican frontrunner donald trump of stoking that violence and hate. Now, whos really to blame for the escalation of tension on the campaign trail, and how did we get here . Joining us today is the executive director of the new York State Democratic Party and political analyst, basil smikle jr. Welcome back to here and now. Thank you. Nice to see you. Oh, man. Lets get to it. It has just been, really, a realitytelevision show on the campaign trail. Say that, from the beginning, trump was kind of stoking this animosity and it just finally boiled over. Whats your take on that . Well, youre right to say that its somewhat of a reality show, right . And you have the carnival barker leading the pack, so to speak. You know, when i look at whats happening on the republican side, to me, theres a pall that has descended over this election season, mostly