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Woodruff and its friday, mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the search expanded fo...

Good afternoon commissioners, my name is larry ware. Im the founder of the Poetry Program i started 35 years ago at the Bayview Library and started the African American History Program 40 years ago. I was the last unsung hero at the program and honored laureate for my work and i was honored for the city and the mayor elected someone else. Now you know who i am. I have known this gentleman for the last 50 years. I have the video of his mother and ed rub ins who was nominated for the pulitzer priz...

Vietor. There is a difference in the process in regards to Public Comment. City attorneys office. I think thats correct. The administrative code has requirements with respect to protesting contract procurement process. There are no City Ordinances mandating a specific protest opportunity for grant. It would be up to the granting department to provide inform for that. But certainly Public Comment would be due process for that to occur. Commissioner torres . Council, back to you, under the adminis...

Bring you a map that showed you the location of all these communities. I didnt need a map. I just wanted to be aware of the process is. You should be receiving the complaints. So if i have a complaint or questions about how the process was run and clearly the ultimate decision, i would talk to you . Correct. How would i know that if i had not been sitting here talking to you . I think what you are speaking to is an interesting point. If you go back to the statistics, a large number of the plate ...

I dont know. Do we have any idea . 2 percent. It will be a chunk . Yeah. In some ways this is a really good time to get the process issued rolled out and solved so when the substantial funding comes forward that process is something we all understand and agree to. Yes, again, i just want to emphasize that the two 2 percent we have to give to the arts. And we are leveraging that and having that spent be spent into community. Commissioner . It sounds like the process was a good process. It was an ...

In fact all of them. All of them were. The requirement of the application is that you had to be resident of bayview and all programs take place in the bayview community. I regret i didnt bring you a map that showed you the location of all these communities. I didnt need a map. I just wanted to be aware of the process is. You should be receiving the complaints. So if i have a complaint or questions about how the process was run and clearly the ultimate decision, i would talk to you . Correct. How...

On Wednesday, March 27, the 58th Wallace Stevens Poetry Program with Terrance Hayes was hosted at the Konover Auditorium at the Dodd Center for Human Rights.

Franny Choi is the 2023 Arons Visiting Poet.

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