Look for these titles in booksts coming this week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. Meg jacobs, its really a pleasure to get a chance to talk to you here at the carter center. I and also welcome the audience thats come out tonight to listen to our conversation. Meg jacobs is the author of panic at the pump the Energy Crisis and the transformation of american politics in the 1970s. Meg is a, teaches history and Public Affairs at princeton. Youve written this is your third or fourth book . Something like that. Something like that . You wrote a book i was interested in because were going to be talking about conservatives, liberals, but one of them is you were the coauthor of account gives conservatives in power the reagan years, 19811989. Okay, interesting. Okay. Were going to talk a bit about conservative politics and liberal politics, for that matter, too tonight. Lets start with this, if we can. Okay. And you correct me. You have a thesis for this book, and ill le
Many of these authors will be appearing or have appeared on booktv. You can watch them at booktv. Org. Meg jacobs, its really a pleasure to get a chance to talk to you here at the carter center. I and also welcome the audience thats come out tonight to listen to our conversation. Meg jacobs is the author of panic at the pump the Energy Crisis and the transformation of american politics in the 1970s. Meg is a, teaches history and Public Affairs at princeton. Youve written, this is third or fourth book . Something like that. Something like that . You wrote a book i was interested in because were going to be talking about conservatives and liberals, but one of them is you were coauthor of conservatives in power the reagan years, 19811989. Okay, interesting. Okay. Were going to talk a bit about conservative politics and liberal politics for that matter too tonight. Let me, lets start with this, if we can. Okay. And you correct me. You have a thesis for this book, and ill let you describe c
Consider the crab fishermen to blame. They are helping us. The two disentanglements we have been successful have been initiated by the fishermen. We see them out there every day and we run up close enough to pull the glasses out to see if they are entangled. Well notify them and get the team out here. Reporter being wild, the whales are unpredictable. They have been known to thrash about when approached and its against the law to get closer than 100 yards unless you have a special rescue permit from noaa. As far as the crab season itself, well, whats left of it this year, it comes to a close next month. With it, tens of thousands of pots like these will come out of the water. The whales will be with us for most of the summer. In bodega bay, don ford, kpix 5. This morning noaa received the report of a whale entangled 35 miles off the coast of monterey. Developing news out of Placer County where a grass fire is sending thick, black and white smoke shooting into the sky. Its already chewe
New hampshire primary on the republican side, what message do you think New Hampshire voters might sending the rest of the nation picking those two outsiders to be the potential nominee . I think that all the reporters in the country will really like that matchup. First of all, i think it is not clear what the polls really mean about this contest. Thep and down and as veteran of many campaigns i know that they dont always indicate what will happen on election day. He always want to be up in the polls, but this is the case 2004 howardmber in dean was ahead of john kerry about a month out by 4613. I think there is still a lot of movement we may see in this race on the democratic side and the republican side. We have seen a switch in second and third on the republican side and there seems to be movement there. I think that voters are beginning to pay attention. Are sending a message that they want things to change in washington. They want to the president and congress address the challeng
Good evening. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. We devote the program to examining hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. It uses water, sand and chemicals breaking up rocks to increase oil and gas production. Fracking is not yet widely used in california. But questions about the environmental impacts in other states have triggered calls to ban it here. We begin where the issue is going before the the film vertigo. Today, just around the corner from the famous church, a different kind of drama is unfolding. A Grass Roots Group called san ber nieto rising has put an initiative on the November Ballot that asked the voters to ban the oil and gas technique. They say it uses large amounts of water. The misuse of water in a drought time is the big issue. You know . Even some of the farmers and the farm workers around here are very concerned about that because that means jobs. Even though they produce little oil and none of it through fracking its the first county in california to quali