Please welcome to thestage Michael Bennett. Hello, iowa. You are a Patient Group of people. I didnt know how patient. And i want to thank you for allowing all of us to impose on you. I want to particularly thank you for the kindness youve shown me and my family as we travel the state of iowa. And i want to thank my friend tom parton, my chairman was right here. Tom, thank you for your leadership and thank youfor your friendship. Ive been in the senate as condos for 10 years. Its hard for me to believe that its been a decade. We served on two committees together. But tonight i want to talk to you not as a senator but as the only superintendent of schools who has ever run for president of the United States. I worked for the kids in the Denver Public schools before i went to the senate. Its a School District got about 1 billion budget. For reference, thats about three times the size of a certain municipality in the state of indiana. Im just saying. It has 95,000 children in it. Most of wh
Before we get started i need to type that you should silence your cell phones please personal recording is not allowed. After the session each of the authors all will be its a mass in your festival program. We have three terrific books. To the far left. John ward book. The fight that broke the Democratic Party. My former Los Angeles Times colleague. As someone who is about to turn 75 i lived in a great number of the events described in this book. As i was saying to miriam just before the program started the first event i remember is as a High School Freshman in 1958 a great year for the Democratic Party in california was a big democratic sweep. The voters of california were wise enough to reject an anti union right to work law. With that as a start. Tell me a little bit about what makes the brown family distinct. There are so many pieces of that but i will try to focus on a few of them. The democrats who have not held power in california for a very long time to think of california as a
With a little daunting. You do the historian thing speak generally. I guess i think if they are looking at american politics, from the beginning straight through we can even go half of the several work, they areal talking the boat paradoxes and conflicts and improv. Tend to focust i on is the early part of the ark. His improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else. The nation was founded and a world of monarchy. The United States is a republic. What that means was a super clear at the moment. People knew that they were trying to do something that wasnt that. Beyond that, theres a lot of open ground. There is a lot of improv in those early decades the boat what the nation is, how it functions, the tone of the government, how this nation is going to stand tough amongst the nation of the world and other kinds of nations. What does it mean to be a republic and a world of monarchy. How is this nation going to get any degree of respect and equally if not mo
Out hope that their daughters murder case will be solved tonight. The family of jenny lynn marking this painful anniversary. Grief and sorrow will never go away. Sooner or later, were going to catch this guy. The search for justice in a decades long murder case. Good evening everyone. Im heather holmes, and im alex savage. Tonight, the family of jenny lynn gathered for a memorial service. The 14 Year Old Girl was murdered in her Castro Valley home nearly 30 years ago. New at ten ktvu is. Amber lee joins us live tonight from Castro Valley. And amber investigators are not giving up on this case, and neither is her parents and community members. The ceremony was held here at the library, the Castro Valley library. Her parents now live in southern california, but they return here every year to make sure their daughters case is not forgotten. In a musical tribute to honor the memory of jenny lynn of Castro Valley, the talented Young Musicians life cut short 30 years ago when she was only 14
At ease. 10 hut. Thank you, everyone. You may be seated. Good afternoon. Im at the at the welcome to the to San Francisco city hall we honor the life and he legacy of senator Dianne Feinstein. Senator Dianne Feinstein that is here officer title it is how californians and people all over the world see here but to us franciscans she was mayor Dianne Feinstein. I have those 13yearold the french horn player at Benjamin Franklin high school over the years weve become mayor Dianne Feinstein fans wherever there was an activity she choose us to play we proudly were our band sweaters she bought for us and senator Dianne Feinstein took the time to tell us how amazing we were and to remind us we were her band. I was born in the early 70s as a kid flying over a you thank you, Dianne Feinstein for bringing the blue angels to San Francisco in 1985 clapping. i was born in the early 70s as kid as far as i, remember as far as i know Dianne Feinstein was the mayor and for kids my age we koeptd that a wo