Is funded by taxpayers. Our speaker is chair of the Organization Since mid2014 and we hope to hear bro adams plans for marking that opportunity organization. Its politically eclipsed in recent years 146 milliondollar budget grants generally go to state Humanities Councils museums, research and educational institutions. Than native of michigan adams has degrees from Colorado College and the university of california and santa cruz. His formal education was interrupted by three years of service in the army including one year in vietnam. It was partly that experience he says that motivated him to study and teach the humanities. He has said quote it made me serious in a certain way and as a 20yearold combat infantry adviser i came face to face acutely with questions of writers artists philosophers and musicians are examining in our work starting with what does it mean to be human unquote. Later he coordinated the great works in western Culture Program at Stanford University and served as Vi
Important because they touch local communities. Every one of them is about a local community in some way. We have to keep making that pitch. We also need to make this argument about the public relevance and how not only how much poorer we would be without them and the work that we do but how incapacitated we would become if we did not have these entities doing what they do. With only two years left of the Obama Administration how do you approach priorities to get as much done as you can . I was just talking about this with a few people this morning. I think we have to think about the most important things 1st of all. And sort them out. Things that would be reasonably pursued in his timetable. There is a way that i and my administration might have a longer life than that. We do understand there is this big moment coming. The scope of the work that we agree to take on we dont want to take on things that could not reasonably be done for eight years. That is too far. Trying as best as we c
I want to talk about an area that i talk to you once before about Community Banks they were not the speculators that brought about the financial collapse then theyre trying to figure out a way to remain relevant. During the tarp time the preferred stock of Community Banks or now held by treasury considerations of treasury to make it easier to be able to recoup theyre preferred stock. We share the view that Community Banks way a Critical Role in local economies and in creating an engine for Small Business growth and local economic activity. We have in the incb t. A. R. P. Program to work with Community Banks. Appreciated. I was interested in your exchange in regards to the us harmonize with the Unit International community and the fact that we have high Corporate Tax rates and i i also was interested in the exchange on simplification where you are trying sen. Wyden wants to get the code much more simplified command i agree. I would put in the plug that you take a a look at the progressi
Office as well. Joe served in a number of different positions as bill has, ranging from committees and the house to the office of management and budget in the administration, and has served as chief economist, staff director and variety of those positions and served with bill on the Bipartisan Policy Centers Debt Reduction task force which came out in 20 10, which came out with a plan to reduce the debt which is inherited some of the proposals and policies that bill has been talking about up here with tax reform, entitlement reform. So joe youre jumping in the middle here, but we were talking the question was in terms of priorities in the federal budget and the growth in the Entitlement Programs and Interest Payments and how thats crowding out some of the other pieces. And so what do you think of the federal budget in terms of how it addresses our priorities as a country and where you see it moving forward . Well, i assume that bill probably used this word already three times, the budg
Department tells me that there was an adult who was still in the infectious stage, confirmed to have measles who shopped here at this costco in gilroy. Not only that that same person went on to shop in a walmart in the south county and also an undisclosed restaurant in the south county. At this costco in gilroy, employees tell us that they put up a sign from the county Health Department letting people know that if they shopped here january 18th from 4 00 to 6 00 p. M. They may have been exposed to measles. We talked to some shoppers who said they never saw the small notices posted at the entrance. They say costco should have done more to alert them. Amy butler and her family have been vaccinated for the measles but are still concerned. Obviously becoming very ill or exposing our friends and family and the possible outbreak that it could mean for california having already been in the Los Angeles Area and then moving up this way. The flier says if you have not been vaccinated for measles