Represented by women nancy pelosi in San Francisco, zoe lofgren in the south bay and lateefah simon, the replacement for barbara lees 12th district in the east bay. If she wins in november, it speaks to the issues that women face running in politics. Doctor Samantha Francois is a professor of womens studies at cal state east bay. She suggests that lower voter turnout means fewer younger voters, who are often more likely to vote for minority candidates. She adds that female candidates still face a tough time fundraising. Adam schiff outraised both his female opponents in the democratic party. Both katie porter and barbara lee, by like 2 to 1. But professor francois also notes that schiff got big endorsements from high profile female politicians like pelosi and barbara boxer, and that exit polls suggest that women voters supported schiff in equal numbers to men. I think we have to have a broader lens in terms of looking at local elections, city elections, and county elections. And we saw
Focus on social justice issues, there is fiction and nonfiction, helping us understand the past in different ways, narrative trails, and understand our history, victims and crises better to storytelling and help us imagine new futures so it is a book about the central conversations we are having today and new ways of thinking about them. From perspectives outside what we consider to be the mainstream. Whether that is people coming from racial background, national background, people who have political ideas outside the mainstream, i use the term mainstream loosely, i really mean people outside the mainstream discourse, probably in the center of american life. Host what are some of the books you have published . Guest between the world and me, it came out last year, won the National Book award, a big bestseller. It is a great example of the kind of writer i want to work with Going Forward because someone who had a big idea in that book, to talk about the idea of race, the idea of the bod
Original ceremony was held on may 10, 1869. Included on this ties a list of the dignitaries from that company, including leland stanford, and the big four are all marked there. Another thing you can see on this site is a connection with the resources that would have the twoilable to companies building the railroad. We have mocked up everything to make it as authentic as possible. If you look on the west side, you will see the cut ties. The Central Pacific had they cut all of their ties and brought them down from the mountain. The Union Pacific from the east had to hand cut their ties wherever they could find wood. Not a lot available in the area so they would split them and you can see them mocked up, how they would cut them and bring them out when they could. The Transcontinental Railroad was happening at the end of the victorian age as you are going into the industrial age. It was a perfect time for the United States. When that Transcontinental Railroad was complete, it made a major
Live look at independence from briar creek, in toward center city, volume beginning to pick up, but most of the major interstates continue to run in the green and our latest accident scene, this is on westinghouse boulevard, it is listed right before i77 on the ramps. That is a check of the morning commute. Christine, back to you. Christine breaking news weve been following since 4 30 this morning. Authorities investigate an officerinvolved shooting in catawba county. Happened last night at a home on old park road in maiden. Wbtv was the first to break story for you on social media, our reporter Ashton Pellom has been on the scene, was first there and is getting brand new details about this incident. Ashton . Reporter good morning, christine. Talked to the police chief about 15 minutes ago. He says this is just a tragic event and hard on everybody from his officers here at the pd to the family of the man involved you will hear from him in a second. First the pictures i shot when i firs
I was a kid carrying around a camera. My dad had one of those big overtheshoulder camcorders and brought it home. Charlie did you think you might be a director . Linmanuel i did. Steven spielberg doesnt get you far in school. I kind of figured out who i was socially by doing a school play. I got cast in the sixth grade play. I played a lot of people. Charlie does that just happen . How has is it that one kid wants to do those things . What was it in you that made you want to do those things because those are the things you do. Linmanuel isnt that incredible that we get to do what we love . You have to think about how you lucked into this. I grew up in a house where cast albums were almost always playing. Charlie all the great albums. Linmanuel south pacific, sound of music, king and i. That was the music we played to clean up after parties. It was latin music at the party because we are puerto rican. Then when we would clean up the house after the party, we would put on the cast album.