Host you can also join us on tweet, and send us a at theail is as we look war on drugs email is [captioning performed by national captioning institute]. Email is journal cspan. Org drugs,ok at the war on 38,000 people died in 2010 from Drug Overdose. We will get to your calls in just a moment, but first just a quick look at the other headlines this morning. The shooting that took place on friday evening, the killer, 22yearold elliott roger, the youtube videos getting a lot of attention over the weekend. This is the scene from the car as on liquor onlookers look at exactly what happened as the student dies of the gunshot after killing six and wounding 13 in santa barbara, california. This memorial day weekend, the subject of this front page story from the orange county. Gister, points of honor monuments offering a setting for memorial day reflections. And there was this story from the pittsburgh postgazette. The greatest generation, quickly vanishing. One million of 60 million world war
Education landscape. First, we are opening the phone lines to ask for your ideas on the best way to improve education in the United States. Atents and students can call 202 5853880. Educators can call at 202 5853881. You can catch up with us on all of your social media pages on twitter. You can send us an email. A good Tuesday Morning to you. Taste of the backtoschool stories. Heres the front page of the richmond times. Local children in the richmond, Virginia Area head back to school today. The front page story ahead of the class, students head back to school. Sandpoint high school being highlighted in that story. The atlantic journalconstitution talked about the end of year testing. Here is the press telegram out of long beach and california. School uniforms still in style after 20 years is one of the headlines. New are being conversation on schools is being sought. There is an aim of encouraging more factbased National Discussion about the challenges of Public Education and possible
Production. And so there have been there are some things in the farm bill that would restrict Crop Insurance a little bit. Thats thats in the senate in the senate bill. But then there are other pressures to increase Crop Insurance for crops that dont have it. Its much harder to do Crop Insurance for the specialty crops, the fruits and vegetables, the nuts, et cetera, because theyre grown on smaller acreages and so its hard to develop the program in which you figure out what the what the rules would be. With the wheat and the corn, et cetera, you spread it over, you know, over large areas so the Program Works fairly well for those but not for some of the products yet. Host judy is up next who lives in a rural area. Good morning. Caller good morning. My problem is, okay, ive been a cashier for many years and i see a lot of Illegal Immigrants coming in that cannot speak english and theyve got a thousand dollars or more in food stamps. And i want to know why its so easy for these people to
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