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Critical and important debates. We have one of the senior members working in the back. We want to think jack for being here and all the support that you have given, not only in the book but our committee since you have joined the bar association. Appreciated. I speak on behalf of all of our committee. We are pleased to say that we have a number of positive responses. The former National Counterintelligence executive, the director, bob bryant, one of the best of the key issues of the National Sec...

Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to rem...

He presented his views on that issue. . When we were asking about the chicago teachers strike before the election, you said it was a local issue and the president has, quote, not expressed any opinion or made any assessment about this particular incidence incident going on in his hometown. Why is this different . Its playing out in michigan, we saw in it wisconsin several months ago. I understand he was in the state of michigan but hes from chicago. Why the president s position on righttowork la...

Ohio, he was a guy who would give you great advice and would work to get you an answer for the problem. So whether it was the Appropriations Committee or quite frankly the Transportation Committee where he served much of his career, was an area where he knew more about transportation and transportation issues, quite frankly than anybody in this town. He was a walking book on transportation issues. Pretty hard for a buckeye to talk about a university of michigan graduate this way, mr. Speaker, bu...

Being forced to choose a number of bad options. It is not like we have a good thing or bad thing. Those choices were made a long time ago. It is between good and good. Needed and needed. Best structure to balance readiness and modernization is a tough thing. What elements of the structure recommendould you retaining if you have the Budget Authority to do so . Is a mission of great concern. What others have similarly impactful consequences . The greater shortfalls we have related to the requireme...

While at home the political battle centers on the minimum wage. This is not just the policy. It also happens to be good policy. Because the truth of the matter is the overwhelming majority of the americans think that raising the minimum wage is a good idea. Gwen and on what it will take in money and in positioning to win in 2014. So this fall, youll have a choice. Winners make policy and losers go home. Gwen covering the week, david sanger of the new york times. Greg ip of the economist. Jeanne ...

While at home the political battle centers on the minimum wage. This is not just the policy. It also happens to be good policy. Because the truth of the matter is the overwhelming majority of the americans think that raising the minimum wage is a good idea. Gwen and on what it will take in money and in positioning to win in 2014. So this fall, youll have a choice. Winners make policy and losers go home. Gwen covering the week, david sanger of the new york times. Greg ip of the economist. Jeanne ...

By contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Films thatpendent deal with complex Human Interaction can often get lost in the push for bigbudget movies around here, and one film that i hope does not get lost in the mix is from to time oscar nominated director, john sayles starring Edward James Olmos and Lisagay Hamilton about a mothers search for her son in tijuana. And we start with a clip from go for sisters. So . I want him back, and if there is anyway, i do not want ...

Parks that are down there scoring less than 80 percent that i know the parks and recreation is taking a look at to make sure those parks will be increasing in the future. In the in next slide we have a maep of the city. All districts are over 85 percent. District 9 is the highest and 10 is the lowest. The darker color being the distribution between 9095 percent and the yellow between 8595 percent. This chart here is the seven 7 years of the over all park scores. The big bar is part of what this ...

Getting 85 percent its in generally good condition. 69 percent have improved. If you compare this to last year, the numbers are different. Steve will explain in a few minutes about the reweighting we did in the scores. We retroactively applied it to these scores. So the trend should remain the same. So what you are seeing here is a distribution of parks. In the green we have parks that are over 90 percent and yellow under and red under 80 percent. You can see the parks are still doing well. We h...