End. He has written quite a bit. Theres long list of things that he has written. Is authored major pieces on ethics stereotyping in ambassador magazine. He also has talked about, of actors like stanley, john turturro. Is a labor journalist for the National Education association for a decade. He has one numerous awards, and he has a digital poetry book called the list goes on and on. He has won various awards like a digital Book Publishers of america in 2014 and if theres anything ive left out, steve, please [inaudible] thank you, joann. You deserve ive never heard a a poet before get the words plutonic and madonna in the same phrase. Prices come really priceless. This is common here today, their number of people who are my former colleagues the administration. A number of new friends, fellow writers who ive met here, and representatives of some 50 colleges and universities. Sharing the panel with fred is really, this is deja vu all over again because 20 years ago i was working on an ar
Yesterday up to 55, the Oakland Hills also. It will be warmer later. Inland temperatures in the 70s. So hopefully you like that. We have hazy skies. Look whats going on with our air quality in the state of california. Down by the Los Angeles Area, Ventura County, the fires are burning, the air quality of course very dangerous. Very bad out there. And we are also in the moderate range for a lot of the bay area. Most of us should be in the clear today and i dont see south winds blowing all that smoke into our area but there is a spare the air alert in effect because its wintertime and thats what happens. A lot of the pollution lingers. So ill explain more about some of the rules now that we are getting our first winter spare the air alert. If you are going through san mateo theres an accident southbound 101 just as you approach highway 92. This is a live look at poplar. Traffic is moving in both directions. We just saw chp running some traffic breaks. Theres quite a bit of activity in th
Site at booktv. Org. Okay. I do double duty here. So i am welcoming Steve Villano who is next, and he is a native of brooklyn, new york, and is the former head of governor mario cuomos new York City Press office with decades of experience in Public Service, public education, Public Health and is the ceo of several national and nonprofit organizations. Im just going to skip to the inhere. He has written quite a bit, theres a long list of things that he has written. He has authored major pieces on ethnic stereotyping in ambassador magazine, he also has talked about actors like Stanley Tucci and john turturro, hes a labor journalist for the National Education association for a decade. He has won numerous awards, and he has a digital poetry book called we haiku. 9 the list goes on and on. He has won various awards like the digital Book Publishers of america in 2014, and if theres anything ive left out, steve, please [inaudible conversations] [laughter] thank you, joanne. Its you deserve to
Cases about Union Membership wearing clothing with political messages and polling places and what information must be provided to women at pregnancy crisis centers. This is life from Heritage Foundation. This is the second time look at this very issue in its 2015 term the court divided evenly after Justice Scalia passed away. The second case Minnesota Voters Alliance info limits on political speech at the polls. While states have a legitimate interest in preventing intimidation and violence at the poll, can they have tshirts and other items that are deemed to political such as a dont tread on me tshirt . Filing the third case National Institute institute of family and life advocate challenges california still to lifeaffirming Pregnancy Centers to advertise states free abortion programs. The relevant law has some exemptions that the centers are just about the only medical facility in the state that have to post these proabortion notices. So to discuss these three case of fortune to have
Hear from mark janus and his litigation director and attorney. Thank you for joining us. Today asyour argument a First Amendment issue. How is that . Guest the First Amendment guarantees me the right of freedom of speech and the right of freedom of speech and freedom of association. The problem is i am not allowed to make that decision for myself. I dont have that choice. That r myself. I dont have that choice. , the union that represents me, mandate that i pay these fees, whether i want to or not. I was not asked. It came out of my paycheck. For i saw the deduction union dues, i said, where is this coming from . I am not a member of the union. I never signed a pledge card, i never asked. My colleague said you have to have this fee come out. If you do not, you lose your job. What about the idea that you want the benefits of Union Protection but you do not want to pay the fees . Guest they are getting all of this money from Public Sector workers like myself, that choose not to be a memb