[applause] thank you. Thank you all very much for being here this evening to support Martha Fuller Clark. Shes an outstanding leader, and this state produces only strong women. Whats in the water here . Its wonderful to be here on her behalf, and hopefully i will see some of you at dinner as well. Thank you for having all of us in your home a few months ago. Martha, it is true that if you appreciate architecture, but i like your house, the house isnt mine. [laughter] that house belongs to the people of maryland. But he was great seeing you when you came down there with all of the state chairs. I love your governor because of her effectiveness, her ability to get things done, her ability to hold people together. My goodness, a unanimous bipartisan budget. [applause] we been able to get some difficult things done with votes from both sides of the aisle, a we could get a unanimous vote on adjournment. [laughter] so i also want to thank my friend martin for coming up here for maryland and
But i think it is something thats underrealized or viewed as sort of not serious. Theres a difference between being not serious and stupid. Its sort of data visualization. Right now were in the very days of that world of news content and people who have been in traditionally news look at that stuff as interesting, sort of a novelty, lets play around with that. But i think were living in an incredibly, incredibly complicated age and being able to break down issues, being able to break things down in a way thats more easily digestible and bringing those experiences right now, theyre very, very expensive and very hard to replicate on mobile devices. I think as that field grows it is going to become a bigger and bigger part of mainstream News Coverage and how we take issues and how we deliver them to people. Theres one thing that i think is, if i may, serious now that i think will be sill ly later whi is sort of niche media sites, things that are focused exclusively on one audience. There
It is not true. Republicans want a good education for every single child in america. We should measure how much we care about education by how much we spend. But how much students learn. Wasted onwe see money the priorities of teachers unions, not children. Education is too important to let policies be dictated by special interests. Education is key to Opening Doors of opportunity and for fighting poverty. It brings us to principle number eight. The best Antipoverty Program is a Strong Family and a good job. Our focus should be on getting people out of poverty by lifting up all people and helping them find work. We need an effective the safety net. The federal government Antipoverty Programs have become mismanaged and ineffective. We should restructure and consolidate them, give them more power to the states and actually measure the results. Doing this same thing get the same result. 45 million of our fellow americans are living in poverty. As my friend and my congressman paul ryan has
Kevin sack and Manny Fernandez are in dallas. Texas apartment not sanitized for days, more than six months after an outbreak of ebola began its rampage through west africa. Local and federal Health Officials have displayed an uneven and flawed response to the first case diagnosed in the u. S. In the latest indication, state and local authorities confirm thursday that a week after a liberian man fell ill in dallas, and four days after he was placed in isolation at a hospital here, the apartment where he was staying with four other people had not been sanitized and the sheets and dirty towels he used while sick remained in the home. County officials visited the apartment without protection on wednesday night. In a separate story, the new york tooms, shes in liberia, and this story is about the u. S. Effort there. U. S. Effort in africa is bahrly off the ground, two weeks after president obama announced that time was running out in the fight to stem the epidemic. The American Treatment Ce
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