To you live from the beautiful Central Public Library beautiful austin texas. In a typical year this would be filled with the brightest stars in america and around the country publishers agents with laughter you can feel the Nervous Energy and the champagne would be flowing the price is a what you might imagine thinking of literary award ceremonies the reasonably greater assigned seating come it is a Cocktail Party with the glamour and energy all its own. Has shown Entertainment Weekly wrote about the literary award referred to as go on golden globe to and to show that and give you claims of what it is like to attend the ceremony a person. Our editor at large caught up with issues final is to connect with them as if we were all at e Party Together you can view the full conversation at kirkus. Com. In a typical year will be the ceremony everybody mixing and mining so where could we find you as a finalist before the Award Ceremony . You can find me by the many dessert table. [laughter] s
No tasting rooms. All of them will shut down for at least three weeks. That decision is because of the countys rising covid19 cases and hospitalizations. County supervisors have plans to discuss ways to crack down on anyone now not following the rules. Forget making lunch this afternoon if you live in marin county. Just head to the fairgrounds instead. They are selling some tasty treats but you wont find any rides there. Nbc bay area Sharon Katsuda is there to show us whats going on. Reporter people are already lined up. This is where you pay for your fair food. And you can get all sorts of things including kettle corn, caramel apple, cotton candy. They are paying for it here, and just down thee making the food for you. The marin county fair says it wants people to get a taste of the fun despite the fair being canceled this year due to covid19. Ticket sales alone this fair usually brings in a million dollars. It goes right back into funding next years fair. At least its hoped the food
Students and parents, but tonight the teachers put their foot down. They are refusing to go back into the classroom next month until conditions are safe. This could set a precedent for School Districts across the state. Heres nbc bay areas cheryl hurd. Reporter San Jose Teachers Association making it clear tonight that they are not going back into the classroom, saying inperson instruction is unsafe. One parent agrees. Theyre putting their lives at risk along with our kids. So i definitely am for them. Reporter a spokesperson for san jose unified says the first day of school is scheduled for august 12th with one teacher in the classroom instructing some students in class and others virtually. Now that teachers are refusing to go back into the classroom, the district is taking another look at their plan. It disappoints me they may not go back. Reporter mike flynn is a parent and former teacher. There really is no substitute for that face to face type of interaction, particularly with yo
Market cannot absorb well so that has lets. Stagnation this has been a crisis waiting to happen this year actually mention of a crisis and i just say you know it would have happened without the fibrous that myself 2 but many others have been talking about us being on the verge of a major recession even deeper than a recession if the us for instance that iran if argentina had declared a moratorium on its debt that would have triggered this giant structural crisis and the measures that are being taken now to address merchants see their temporary measures but theyre going to aggravate the long term structural dimensions but i think what bastes. Ahmed 19 or deal dreams. Been assassin or structural agree justin and what i mean by that is that Global Production change will have to reconfigure if i may you want it or not main governments including the American Government i now actively thinking about bringing the production oh. Supply home and thats hardly a positive development when the tran
Hard to tell what normal even means at this point how will the college 19 or deal sheesh the way we run our politics economy and social relations well it just doesnt im now and joined by William Robinson professor of sociology at the university of california at Santa Barbara professor romans and its good to talk to you thank you for your time thank you for having me on i can see that youre also connecting with us you know a whole no no the only one you have in a whole order or almost a month. What its been like for you. Well were on yeah were on lockdown the University Closed over a month ago in the 1st week of march and we move to Online Education i mean this is a completely different like we know wont last forever but i also think that were never going to go back to normalcy it will be by normalcy is great pandemic and now youve been writing about the perils of have to receive globalization for many years and i think its fair to say that youve been traditionally reticle about and by