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[ applause ] so good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry is, this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed calls of the kansas city public library. Five star library this week from library journal. Thank you. [ applause ] hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor and editor in chie...

[ applause ] so, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Well m coto the kansas city public library. Robert merry, this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the library, five star library this week from library journal. Thank you. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter from the observe, the walt walt journal, managing editor and editor in chief of Congressional Quarterly and more recently the american conservative. He says i...

Identity. The conservative leaning court issued a ruling that is being hailed as a huge victory for lgbtq equality. The court banned workplace determination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. Reporter employers cannot fire or discriminate against members of the Lgbtq Community, based on gender identity and sexual orientation. The decision extends the federal protections of title vii to gay, lesbian and trans people. Today is a landmark victory decades in the making. It was a great s...

Steve, can you explain to us why you decided this is the moment to put together a project like this . Started fourfort with the aim to understand the government better are the governments own numbers owny the governments numbers. Where does the money come from and where is it spent. The security and Exchange Commission requires this very factual document required called the 10k report. Journey andn this we really learned a lot at the federal, state, and local level. What about the need for hard ...

Of microsoft and a philanthropist. To talk about his latest endeavor, which takes a lot of data and facts from all sorts of sources and puts them together. Steve, can you explain to us why you decided this is the moment to put together a project like this . Started fourfort with the aim to understand the government better are the governments own numbers owny the governments numbers. Where does the money come from and where is it spent. The security and Exchange Commission requires this very fact...

Rain. Plus its king tides today which means some flooding. Right now the winds are 24 on tam. Heavy rain this afternoon and evening. Jobina . Thank you, mike. A live look in walnut creek. Things are looking good, moving smathly this morning. We arent expecting the commute to look that great tomorrow. A live look now in oakland. This is one of our new cameras. The headlights are heading south near the coliseum, this camera. To mass transit. We have the ferries, no delays. B. A. R. T. , no delays ...

President ial library, down in the stacks. We are in the most secure area in our facility. This is the vaults. More thanere we keep 1600 documents written by Abraham Lincoln as well as many of the pieces he owned, objects he owned that he and directed with during his lifetime. I want to show you some books that we have in our collection that were very special to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln whenraham he was elected president in 1860, its not as if he was entirely unknown. He was a four term member o...

As that lucky guy because today i get to meet Abraham Verghese and him to you and just a quick aside this i hadnt planned and met dr. Verghese this morning and you know ive been doing these events for about six years now and i met darcy and it kind of embarrassing because i started crying. I cant explain the effect that hes had me as a doctor and a reader. So its just a little bit. But dr. Verghese, his book, the covenant of water has spent nine months on the New York Times bestseller list, whic...

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