Particularly announced wednesday by Vladimir Putin shifting Greater Authority to parliament which has left many wondering what this means about putins own plans to relinquish the presidency or not in a few years. So we are especially fortunate to have with us this evening an expert on putins russia, joshua yaffa who is the moscow correspondent for thenew yorker. Been covering russia for much of the past decade and his new book between two fires truth, ambition, compromise in putins russia offers a truly fascinating and revealing look at the impact of the putin era has had on above all the nations psyche and the moral struggles and calculations that Many Russians confront. Josh has written a very nuanced portrait ofrussia. Nothing like the simplistic view of that country, oppressed people lorded over by a kgb trained dictator area josh describes a people who fall somewhere between oppressor and oppressed, prone to compromise and accommodation with the state but still double and resource
Industry, americas cabletelevision company, as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Reading everybody. Welcome to politics and prose. Im bradley graham, a coowner of the bookstore along with my wife lissa muscatine. While theres certainly been a lot of news this week, much of it of course about the start of Donald Trumps trial in the senate, but some important things have been happening in russia as well, particularly an announcement by Vladimir Putin shifting Greater Authority to parliament which has left many wondering what this means about putins on plans to relinquish the presidency, or not, in a few years. We are especially fortunate to have with us this evening an expert on putins russia, joshua yaffa, who is the moscow correspondent for the new yorker. Yorker. Hes been covering russia for much of the past decade, and his new book between two fires offers a truly fascinating and revealing look at the impact of the putin era has had on, above all,
Causing it to shut down for at least the next 2 days and possibly even longer can force anchorman is live in oakland tonight with the latest and. The cancer causing chemical tce trichloroethylene youve heard it before when weve talked about toxic sites. Well they found it in the ground water a climbs high school the concern is that the vapors will rise up and impacts students and teachers in the classroom. Thats why school has been closed today and tomorrow and likely much of next week until they can determine if that is happening and what levels and get those levels are dangerous. Oaklands matt climates high school was closed thursday and will be friday and at least for several days next week. Thats because crews removing a fuel tank near the schools Tennis Courts discovered the cancer causing chemical tric laurel ethylene in the ground water below the schools. We are concerned that it could be vaporized it that is seeping up through the ground. And around and getting into the air tha
Closed today tomorrow and early next week, theyre looking for another facility so students can get back to school sometime next week. Just a quick clarification when School Officials said that they the state had been around too do some testing in that area they didnt mean they have been here at the school to do testing they meant they had been nearby where they originally had found that plume of tce now this point they dont know how the plume of tce made its way over to the school. But it has and now they have to do some air testing to see if students are in trouble. Well removing a fuel tank adjacent to the Tennis Courts of a climate is high school. Crews discovered the cancer causing chemical tric laurel ethylene or tce in the ground water. School was closed as a result on thursday and will also be closed on friday and at least through early next week. So air quality testing can be conducted our concern is that there realized itc that that seeped through the ground and through our fl
Last friday. Today, for example, Small Business confidence index, the nfib Business Confidence index registered a very strong number, keeping its near record high. Unemremains low at 3 1 2 . Other indicators look pretty good. We had a lot of momentum in the first quarter, good thing. I recognized challenges and that is why we are proposing these fiscal measures to combine with monetary measures that have already taken, and again i will repeat the president s word. Just struck me as his determination, he intends to bring the full power of the federal government to deal with these health and economic challenges. Thank you. Wellsaid. And a worried from Surgeon General jerome adams. General . Good evening, everyone. Surgeon general, whether it is opioids or cigarettes or the coronavirus, my job is to help the American People understand how to live a healthy life and im asking all of you, im imploring all of you to help share my prescription for america to overcome this coronavirus situatio