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Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the National League of cities. Im the ceo and executive have you in what we call cities in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents the 19000 city, towns and villages in america. Today, we thank you for being here because we are releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. If you are interested in what is happening in cities all over america, perhaps you enjoy digging ...

Bam, everything went off and that was the end of the day. Reporter the city of santa rosa has its Emergency Operations center fully staffed. They estimate 50,000 to 60,000 people will be impacted within the city limits. Traffic lights at 24 intersections are expected to go dark. Our goal is to make sure that during the shutoff, that we do the most we can to protect our community. Reporter the owner of bettys fish andhips cooked up lunch for customers before the shutoff. They lost power for three...

Its an epistolary work. Its a letter, a series of letters to my sons of course its also a letter to the larger world. Both about the reality of the terror and anxiety and worry that comes along with being a parent of black children and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy. And excellence and self regard. Much of which i think one defined the lessons for an extraordinary definition we have to draw ...

This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Next week americans will honor our nations veterans who have paid the price for our freedom in times of conflict and served as our shield in times of peace. Today, nearly 20 million americans have earned the title of veteran. Im proud to say that maine is home to more than 114,000 veterans. The second highest percentage in our entire country. We owe them such a great debt. The gratitude we express in words on veterans day can repay this debt only in...

Good morning, everyone. Good morning to all the people watching us over cspan and other electronic means of communication. Very, very happy on behalf of Hudson Institute to welcome senator chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dialogues that weve been having here at hudson over the last few years with a range of policymakers and important contributors to the American Foreign policy debate from both parties, from many different points of view. This is partly out of hudsons commi...

Scape landscaping and the right type of that into our environments. This is important to us and were excited to dig into that. Also cityowned land as well as privatesector projects, were taking a look at all our current codes and thinking about how can we require more greening and the right types of greening and how can we provide really clear tools, so that as one of your constituents gets an infraction because theyve paved over their front yard and they need to have half of that front yard be ...

Communication. Very, very happy on behalf of Hudson Institute to welcome senator chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dial ocean that we have been having here at hudson with a range of policy makers and important contributors to the American Foreign policy debate from both parties from many different points of view. This is partly out of hudsons commitment to ser yous intellectual engagement over serious questions and reflects my own view as an analyst of American Foreign poli...

Right now the driving force behind Overdose Deaths in the United States. Today just to give you some brief take aways about the work we have been doing in the last year, looking at fentanyl, the main key points here, from this report, this 200 page report is basically that the nature and magnitude of the ongoing overdose crisis brought on by synthetic opioids is really unlike a traditional drug epidemic and is more or so better thought of as a poisoning outbreak. That said, if we just limit our ...

Thank you everybody for coming. Please continue to enjoy your lunch. Im tim carney, im a visiting fellow here at the American Enterprise institute as well as being a the commentary ted tor at the Washington Examiner. Were here to talk about health care. But i want to ask a specific question about health care. And its a question that some people on the Free Enterprise side, the free market conservative or libertiarian side dont always ask. Kui, bono in latin, or who benefits. I think sometimes pe...

Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the National League of cities. Im the ceo and executive have you in what we call cities in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents the 19000 city, towns and villages in america. Today, we thank you for being here because we are releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. If you are interested in what is happening in cities all over america, perhaps you enjoy digging ...