Stories like that that wraps the anecdotal around a kind of analytical strands so the book is the bright continent breaking rules and making change in modern africa, dayo olopade, thank you for being here today. Is a brilliant book. If you want to understand the continent better, you will buy it. Thank you, good to be here. [applause] thank you for attending todays session. Thank you to our moderator, doug foster and our great author, dayo olopade. Ebook the bright continent breaking rules and making change in modern africa on sale now in the main lobby. She will be signing copies just outside the auditorium for anyone interested. Thank you very much, enjoy your afternoon with the bit fast. Cspan2 providing live coverage of the u. S. Senate floor proceedings and keep Public Policy events and every weekend booktv, for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by the cabletv industry and brought to you as a Public Service by a local, cab
They should base it you know, the allotment on the number of people in the family. Okay . And everybody should pitch n as simple as that i think it only makes sense. Reporter a spokesperson for the San Jose Water Company says appeals for more water will be based on the honor system meaning, no cops counting family members. Some worry that could create water cheats. Nope, i dont think people can be trusted to do that i think if thats going to be the situation, i think its probably the citys job to probably audit, you know exhomes and just be able to pop in any time just to make sure that people are you know, doing what they say. We really have no way of knowing how many customers are behind each meter that we have. We certainly trust the customers are being truthful when they fill out their appeal form. Reporter a Public Meeting is being held tonight at 7 00 at the summit or the rotary Summit Center in downtown san jose. The Water Company says it really wants to know what customers thin
Digging actually channels along the river and widens the flow of the river. Can you give me an idea of just over the past 25 to 30 years of the budget dollars you have what has been the trend in maintenance spending and in environmental spending . Just in general figures or percentages . Well,ly answer by saying i dont know that i can give you that general percentage right off the bat. Theres always come back and get it, but certainly our civil emissions include our navigation, our hydropower from the energy perspective. We have aquatic ecosystem restoration. We have a Natural Resource Management Mission within our civil works that includes Environmental Stewardship recreation component as well. Our flood Risk Management and Flood Control definitely is a big component of our civil works mission. And then of course, we have our Regulatory Program as far as our service to the nation and the waters of the u. S. So our efforts are to balance those Mission Sites mission areas, as far as the
And good monday morning. Happy caucus day. Chuck todd in des moines, iowa. Thank you to all of the folks joining us here at java joes and everyone at home as well. Today is all about Closing Arguments, here on the campaign trail in iowa and in the president s impeachment trial in washington. While much of the intrigue is gone from the impeachment trial with the senate poised to acquit the president , it is the exact opposite in iowa where this race still feels wide open to a point, and the buzz is pretty incredible. Saw multiple candidates draw huge crowds in the last few days. Top six candidates had 43 separate events saturday and sunday, making their Closing Arguments to iowa caucus goers. Heres some of what the candidates have had to say. Tomorrow night is the beginning. It is the beginning of the end for donald trump. It is no longer talking about how to win, its proving that we can do it, and that starts with you. You let only a certain bunch of us out of the gate, we dont all get
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