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But theyll be ushered in. Good afternoon and welcome to the Aspen Institute. On behalf of the Strategy Group and the Rural Development Innovation Group, i want to thank you for joining us for this lunchtime dialogue series. Americas rural opportunity. I want to thank all the people in the room here, in washington, d. C. , with us, as well as the hundreds of the people Live Streaming and those of you watching on cspan3. So i am i wonder how many there are. Im janet topolsky. Im executive director of the Aspen Institute strategies group. What we do here at aspen usg is we do a lot of work out in...

To say hello to claudia. Thank you for joining us. It is good to be here as always. It is a little gloomy outside but here we are on a tuesday. We begin in lake county, firefighters finally gaining ground on the clayton fire. This morning it remains at 4000 acres while containment has jumped to 20 . Firefighters are making significant progress. Strong wind and temperatures combined to feel the fire over the weekend. The fire activity we have an experience the last couple of years is not normal. Fires dont just simply start. Police say 40yearold Damin Pashilk deliberately started the fire and m...

[inaudible conversations] good morning with. By American People decided to change the majority of the u. S. Senate of was down in louisville the day after the election with the press conference that i pointed out the dysfunction in the senate was one of the issues of 2014 with the minority of the senate it is down to a very small minority. So we tried to avoid dysfunction and let people produce a paper co when defeated in alaska in did not have a roll call amendment on a full six year term. Not one. We had 15 votes amendments in let them participate to the maximum extent possible majority and ...

Today, we will address a very important question is there a student debt crisis . In many of us are well aware of the everexpanding student loan market and the latest estimates are that nearly 40 million americans are laden with 1. 3 trillion worth of student ebt. One in four of the borrowers is either in delinquency or default. Last years graduating class had an average of 35,000 in student ebt. Those are striking numbers. The Obama Administration recently announced two policy changes and president ial candidates have focused on a variety of alternatives of ways to lower the debt burdens. Tod...

French muslims in british muslims need to more forcefully condemn terrorism, benefit from that solidarity that is created. A couple of books i have read from women, i cant think of her last name. She was part of the Dutch Parliament for a while. These two authors i am thinking very vividly describe what it is like for women in islamic ,ountries, general mutilation all of that, really tough to read, and i think the start of an underground group of women that are tuning into this then extrapolate to islam broadly, and i think that has not been, at least im not aware of it being countered or if i...