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More tickets for papal events that weekend. A total of 10,000 tickets will now be up for grabs for the popes event at independence mall. 10,000 tickets for saturdays papal festivities and another 10,000 more tickets for the popes mass on sunday. Organizers say the event itself justifies all of the changes we have seen in recent weeks. Huge part of this is the experience pilgrims joining arms and singing and waving their flags from tow heed dough, ohio or to lido pain. Its going to be the most jo...

Penned by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Every week, a columnist for the new york times. Nicholas kristof delves deeply into the issue of our day, reporting on poverty, equality, conflict zones and of course the rights of women and children both in this country and abroad. A new work about to be published a path appears cowritten with his wife, sheryl wudunn. Good to have you on this program. Good to be on. I want to jump into this in a second after i ask wha...

Time and attention. Its greatly appreciated. Supervisor breed. Youre good, okay. Mr. Rose, can we get your report. On page 77 of our report, our recommended reductions to the proposed budget totalled of that amount, 585, 859 are savings and the other is one time savings. This would allow an increase of 3,239 or 7. 2 percent in the department our total is 639, 963 in 1516 and of that amount, 574 are ongoing savings. These reductions would allow an increase of 4 million. Or 2. 3 percent in the dep...

The jewish Film Festival. Whats up with the jewish Film Festival this year . We thought we would start with our trailer, funny send up for San Francisco because were so pleased to be a thriving Cultural Institution in the bay area. The Film Festival is the first and largest jewish Film Festival in the world and this year, we have 70 films from 18 Different Countries around the world. Weve also extended our castro run. Last year, we had such an amazing increase in attendance, an unprecedented 21 ...

If 2014 harlem book fair panel on multicultural book publishing. My name is weighed hudson and i am president and ceo of just us books, independent Childrens Book co. My wife cheryl and i started in 1988. We established just us books to addressing the needs to reflect our societys diversity. I will moderate the discussion but before we starts i would like to pay a little homage to a great writer we lost last week. Walter myers, winner of many of the awards for children and young adult literature...

Because were already there. Were efficient. And were penalized all the time for our level of efficiency. We want the country to move as fast as possible to that new model. Its saving money. Its better care for the patients. We dont want to lose doctors in the northwest just because they get paid less because theyre more efficient. So we hope that behind the 30 number is incentives that really move people in a you know, some of the previous discussions weve had here, you know, basically youre goi...

The expression too big to fail doesn apply here. The total budget has more than doubled that. My concern is that the savings and deficiencies in the orr all hhs budget are very small when compared to the overall spending. The president s proposed budget would save just over 250 billion over the next decade. On the policy front the 5d min straegs needs to be up front. For some time now, ive been concerned with the impact of the entitlement programs. ; at that time hha was the largest operating Di...

But well find out what the court says soon enough. At yesterdays ways and means hearing, secretary lu refused to say if theres a contingency plan. Secretary burwell does the administration have a contingency plan. Senator right now, the Justice Department will represent for us in the Supreme Court is the correct position. We believe that both in terms of the spirit of the law and the intent of congress, as well as the letter of the law. And the justice will make that argument in terms of what we...

Kevin sack and Manny Fernandez are in dallas. Texas apartment not sanitized for days, more than six months after an outbreak of ebola began its rampage through west africa. Local and federal Health Officials have displayed an uneven and flawed response to the first case diagnosed in the u. S. In the latest indication, state and local authorities confirm thursday that a week after a liberian man fell ill in dallas, and four days after he was placed in isolation at a hospital here, the apartment w...

Hes a members member, always available for counsel, always with an encouraging word. How many of us have benefited from hisess tute advice. This chamber his astute advice. This chamber says thank you to a man who knows how to negotiate, who knows how to legislate and who knows how to foster great change. Hes a master of the art of compromise. His service has been honorable for over half a century. Hes been indefat kabul. Hes walked forth rightly in the shoes of his father before him and he serve...