America, dreams of the quality featuring the 1848 womens rights convention. Kansas city, missouri, is known as the city of fountains with over 200 officially registered in the metro area. It could easily be known as the city of boulevards. Here is George Kessler and the developer of the park and boulevard system. Todays park and boulevard system is about 130 miles. Our system today has about 12,000 acres of parkland in the city. That 12,000 acres is within about 310 square miles of kansas city. Ofaddition to that 130 miles parks and boulevards, we have 230 parks in the city. They range all the way in size from a little under 2000 acres to Neighborhood Parks that are less than an acre. Everyone has a little different, and they are all different. Some of these larger parks are more of what is considered to be a community or regional park. Timeframe,s, 1890 candace was a wild western town. Zoning,snt a lot of planning. Public health was a big issue associated with urban development concer
Have andy barr, maxine waters, matt gaines, ted and karen. Thank you, we are glad that youre here we will allow each of you to give testimony without objecting anything, if you make an order will be ended into the record. I miss waters, well have you first and the gentleman knows the green light is on. Thank you very much mr. Chairman. I would like to commend you and the rules Committee Members for allowing all of us to come before you to share with you our concerns and help shine a light on where we think we should be paying more attention. So, the testimony of have today will combine a number of the areas you talked about. Thank you. If you could do us a favor and tell us that section and the amendment number, it will enable us to follow you perhaps a bit more closely and that would be of help to the committee. Okay. Let me try and do that now. I think that you did venture transportation. Is that right . Yes. That we are doing today. Transportation and agriculture. Say that again . T
Maybe even as we speak u. S. Military pilots flying in the skies over syria engaged in military operations against isil targets and other extremist targets inside of syria. Those operations have been going on for more than a year now. The third thing i would point out is that there are there have been previous situations where the president has ordered u. S. Military personnel to conduct operations on the ground inside of syria in at least one case that was related to an effort to rescue american citizens who are being held hostage inside of syria. In another situation, a more recent situation, u. S. Operators carried out a mission against an isil leader and that mission resulted in taking that isil leader off the battlefield and collecting important, valuable intelligence about isil. Our approach to this all along has been to implement a strategy against isil that is focused on building the capacity of local forces to take the fight on the ground to isil in their own country. That is
Said that should be a book . Yes. I read up article 10 years ago about how in a very shortly in the early 21st century more households in america will be supported by women and thats a giant flop, i mean a giant change. It made me want to explore what the implications of that might be for many women, for marriag marriages, for children, for love, for courtship and i got a great book out of it. What was the book lacks. It was written by a terrific Washington Post reporter who is now at the new America Foundation in washington. It generated, it landed on the cover of a magazine and it generated a huge conversation about how do we all need to adjust our lives to this economic new reality and is this good . I think we were in the camp of yes, anything that makes couples stronger and live up, live up to their potential is a good thing. One of the authors or pair of authors that you worked with for nancy gibbs and Michael Duffy on a book that booktv covered in our q a program covered it as w
Founder in london overallegations of sexual assault. The Turkish Coast guard has seized a cargo vessel carrying more than 300 syrian ref fees. The coast guard also fired on the boat that was on its way to italy. Turkish officials said that the coast guard shot at the ships engine room off of the peninsula off it ignored warnings to stop. The passengers who have been detained include 85 children. More from zana hoda in beirut. Reporter syrians yet again find themselves in the middle of a crossfire. What we understand is that the coast guard fired warning shots the ship ignored those warning shots, and then the coast guard used live ammunition. This was really the first time they used live ammunition. We know there were no injuries but the people on board that ship are now detained. More than 300 people the majority syrian refugees. What we understand is that they will be questioned. The policy is when turkey arrests Illegal Immigrants they usually deport them back to their country, but