Of four is dead after a crash yesterday morning. And now the driver of the car says hes not the one to blame. Its tuesday november 24th. Today in iowa starts now. First on 13. Were learning deadly crash on a des moines street. It left a des moines mother dead. And created a mess of metal and sparking power lines. The crash happened yesterday morning on 35th street. The car hit a utility poll and spun into a tree. 22year old scalicity perez. Also known as scalicty boyd was killed. The driver, troy mure, survived and is now recovering. Police are now looking into whether he was speeding or impaired. But his mother says it happened because another vehicle was chasing him. They waved a gun. He stepped on the gas to get awy faom them. And they hit the back of the car and made him lose control of the car. His mother says the reason for that chase goes back to an unsolved nightclub murder. Earlier this month a man was shot and killed outside evolution nightclub. Mure told his mother people ar
Down to the plains from the top of the mountain inspired the poetry and inspired the images that are captured in that poetry of the United States. Watch all of our events from Colorado Springs throughout the andon cspan 2s book tv, sunday on American History tv on cspan 3. Formeror agricultural secretary dan glickman discusses Food Security. Topics include past agriculture issues and the types of action that could be taken in future to improve food supply, access, and sanitation. From the Johns Hopkins school of advanced international studies, this is a little more than an hour. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im bob thompson, visiting scholar here working to develop a problem in agriculture and a program in agriculture and Food Security. Teaching a couple courses in that area. Im delighted that in continuing our seminar in International Agriculture topics that today we have former secretary of agriculture dan glickman here to talk about Food Security and government dysfunction. Ca
And here too i will refer to my fathers 1959 address. He worried then about californias dangerously overcrowded prisons. A he talked about identifying those prisoners who should never be released to prey again on an innocent public, but he also said, we should also determine whether some prisoners are now kept confined after punishment has served its purpose. We face these same questions today what purposes should punishment serve and for how long should a person be confined to jail or prison, for a few days a few years or for life . In response to a large increase in crimes beginning in the 1970s, the legislature and the people, through ballot initiatives, dramatically lengthened sentences and added a host of new crimes and penalty enhancements. Today, californias legal codes contain more than 5,000 separate criminal provisions and over 400 penalty enhancements, an arcane and complex mix that only the most exquisitely trained specialist can fathom. And funding has grown proportionatel
The world. As you may have seen in your own country, or as the slide show indicates, theres a Global Movement toward candidate debates making candidate debates a part of elections in a diverse range of countries. Its at least 65 countries so far. And i suspect the number is higher. Why are more countries organizing debates . I think there are several reasons. Debates provide a unique opportunity to compare candidates. They are generally the only time in a campaign when voters see and hear directly from the candidates, appearing side by side, in the same forum, at the same time. Debates also increase focus on policies in a campaign. In some countries, candidates traditionally campaign on personal attacks or slogans, personality, religion or ethnic loyalties. In contrast to our debate, forces candidates to have more indepth positions on the issues. For example, in jamaica, polling after a 2011 debate showed that 70 of the public was more informed on candidate policy positions because of
Official is someone who is either elected or appointed by their party and runs for office as the candidate for their party or is appointed by someone who was elected as a candidate of their party. That is to say, the chief election official in most states is in that sense a partisan. This creates an inherent conflict of interest between the chief Election Officials responsibility to serve the interests of all voters to create a level Playing Field and that officials interest in serving his or her party and advancing through the ranks of his or her party. It is a problem that is, by the way, well recognized among other democratic countries, which is why the chief Election Authority in most countries enjoys some degree of insulation from partisan politics. This, however, is unfortunately a lesson that we in the United States have yet to learn. Next let me give a little bit of historical context. For most of this countrys history, racial minorities, most notably africanamericans, have bee