Thanks for coming today on this beautiful friday and excited to introduce to you john burtka president and chief executive officer of isi. He graduated from Hillsdale College with degrees in french and christian studies and earned a graduate degree in theology from la faculte. Jean calvin, an ex in provence, france. Johnny began his career at isi, where he served as a development officer. He returned to isi after four years at the american conservative magazine, where he served as executor of director and acting editor. Johnny has appeared on fox news and fox business and has written for the washington post, the Richmond Times dispatch. The first things the American Mind and the intercollegiate review, among other publications. He has been a lincoln fellow at the Claremont Institute and has participated in academic fellowships at Washington College and the trinity forum. Johnny lives in pennsylvania with his wife amanda. Good morning and welcome. Thank you to the Heritage Foundation fo
The Labour Run Council is still struggling to pay off a huge equal pay claim that dates back more than a decade ago. It has also had major issues with a new it system. Our Midlands Correspondent navteonhal is there. The pressure on the citys finances has been rising and rising. Europes biggest Local Authority is now in biggest Local Authority is now in big trouble. Its problems began more than a decade ago, when a Landmark Case was brought against the council, which led to it having to pay out more than £1 billion so far in equal pay claims to mostly female staff. But with the authoritys revenue budget, the money it spends on recurrent costs like wages, at £750 million, the announcement of this summer but it had up to £760 million still to find to settle the equal pay claims was a huge blow. And that is on top of the botched roll out of a new it system which has set up back and about £100 million. The City Council Leader who is currently abroad, he says, is part of a long standing
This Great Holiday together; the establishment of a single medal for the anniversary of the victory was approved by the heads of the cis foreign ministry. There will probably be money, but only on credit; american congressmen do not plan to help kiev for free. The rescue operation in antalya continues for 24 hours; almost three dozen people remain trapped on the funicular. The final race of the season is murmansk hosting the commonwealth cup. In biathlon we will tell you about the results of our athletes. Belarus and russia intend to continue working together on space programs, the leaders of the two countries announced this in moscow the day before. And we are talking not only about the joint training of astronauts, but also about the technologies that lift launch vehicles into space and help people perform tasks on the iss. Work is currently underway on a satellite that could be launched in the coming years. And as it was said at the meeting, a russian one will also appear. We are ma
With a compromise and it was called the private option. To make a long story short, it was about taking the Medicaid Expansion dollars that were available but using them to purchase private insurance on the Health Insurance exchange. This was a really innovative approach. It didnt mean that it passed easily. I think we had to take about six or seven votes mainly because extremes on both sides we were just hear about were pretty dug in on the issue. I will tell you even though we were able to pass the private option, there were members of both parties who lost elections as a result afterwards, just in 2014. People were primaried, people instrumental passing that policy lost their elections but ill tell you, im a democrat. I was for moving forward with the expansion from the beginning but part of, i think one. Biggest things we had to do on our side was keep our mouth shut and not put the other side in two difficult of a position as well. Again i see a lot of nodding heads, but i respect
You have got to know that you are not a plantation to produce more dumb negroes with degrees. You have got to make the colleges teach the things that will make young people builders instead of beggars. Meet me tomorrow at the jw marriott, 10 11 00. And we want to talk about whats next. Until then, oh, god, you have made me so happy today just to look into your beautiful faces. I want you when you leave here to go home to your wives and your families and before you leave, i want you to greet the people around you, hug them and tell them i love you. Embrace your native Indigenous People and tell them we love you. And our mexican family, embrace them and tell them you love them and from this day forward, this day of a demand for justice will never end until justice is ours so t so today is the beginning of that movement that will never end. All local organizing committees, you got to stay focused and keep working. Its not over. Its just begun. Thank you for listening. [applause] come on,