Courtmartial proceeding. She was working as a nurse in South Carolina and the Court Transcript allows us to hear her in her own words. After the war, she received the pension as a widow of a union veteran, nelson davis who had served as a private in the 8 United States colored infantry. Years after she died, tubman petitioned congress for additional benefits for her own service outlined in her affidavit as nurse and cook in hospitals and commander of several men, eight or nine, as scouts dpurg the late war. Congress received numerous documents and letters supporting tubmans claim and they, along with her affidavit are here in the records of the niets house of representatives. Tubmans pentagon was increased to 20 for her service as a nurse. Tonight, a distinguished panel will discus the life enlegacy of Harriet Tubman and ongoing presentation efforts of her birthplace. Ms. Ross is feeling in for robert f. Parker listed in our program but unable to be with. Dr. Jones is the University Ar
School is back in session in eastern iowa cbs 2 News Reporter Stephanie Johnson is live right now in iowa city. City. Where students are getting ready to head back to class today. Stephanie good m. Morning. Good morning kelly yeah students in iowa city will need an umbrella or rain coat for their first day of school im right outside of southeast junior high where School Starts just before 9 oc. Different than Elementary Students who start class at 7fifty five. The School District is reminding parents about this swap in start times. They believe these start times better suit the different age groups. The district also made changes to discretionary buses, prioritizing areas where it is needed the most. Stephen murley, superintendent 22 41 48 we only had so much money that we could devote to discretionary busing, so given that, we couldnt bus every child that lives within two mil miles. Theyre planning for more traffic to start off the year. They hope drivers are paying attention so all k
Prove it this is going to stick around then maybe ill invest in it myself. I think we have early adopters. We call them lowhanging fruit and people that are more cautious and thats fine. They have to be around it. They have to experience it and taste it and feel it themselves then we have people who are no matter what you say, its going to feel like we are giving special attention to some people and not others because they have trauma. And we have to work on that. So we have to it is a horizontal approach but its bottomtoop. I think the 2pointal , theyre the people that have a hard time trusting that we mean what we say. There is no funding. Were doing it from the inside out. Its not like were going to lose funding. Were doing it. This is not costing a lot of money to the department. Were not relying on external grants or consultants or anybody coming in from different parts of the droin. Were doing it ourselves. No matter who leaders are, we want to create the change and embed it into
Questions . Roll call commissioner president adams commissioner Vice President brandon commissioner kounalakis and commissioner woo ho. Item 2 approval of the minutes for the april 2016. 2013 opposed . Inclusive session any Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Collective session. All in favor, say i. I. Motion motion second all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Were in executi congratulations. I move to call the meeting to order. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Meeting is in order. I move not to disclose anything discussions in session. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Next order pledge of allegiance of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Are prohibited at this meeting. The ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, o
I. Opposed . Were in executi congratulations. I move to call the meeting to order. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Meeting is in order. I move not to disclose anything discussions in session. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Next order pledge of allegiance of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Are prohibited at this meeting. The ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. Please be advised members of the public has up to 3 maintenance for each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter air item 8 items not listened on the items on the agenda Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 9 a executive directors report gm good afternoon commissioner president adams