Counterparts. You may have seen this week that the Starbucks Coffee Company Announced a new initiative called race together. In encourages employees to engage in conversations about raise with people buying coffee. You may think this is a good approach, or you may disagree with it. For the first 45 minutes, we want to discuss what this means for Race Relations. If you live in the eastern are central time zone, 202 7488000 is the number four calling in. 202 7488001 if you live in the amount no pacific zone. If you want to post on twitter journal cspan. Org. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Or you can send us an email, journal cspan. Org. If you go to the companys website, it you can read the press release and why they are doing it. Race together is what employees have been voluntarily writing on cups this week. If you got a copy of a copy of usa today there was a pullout on Race Relations. It also has a picture of that ceo of starbucks as he was talking to members of his company about
Compensation. When we lost on the floor of the house, i was sure it would be turned around. Two factors. First of all, bill knows this, when a measure is coming up, the people who are for it tend to take for granted that it will happen, and the people who are against it scream and yell. You hear disproportionally from the antis. We heard from all the people who thought it was terrible. After the vote, people started hearing from other people who thought that not doing it was terrible. And of course and i would say this is not purely hindsight here. Hank paulson will verify this. We talked that night, and hank, who had done a great job, was in despair. The day the vote was going on, there was a gathering in the well of the house of the bipartisan leadership ready to go into the usual drill of trying to change members vote. I will take credit for going to steny hoyer and others if they do not do this, this is too serious, dont win this by these kind of tactics. We will pay a big price. I
First-year College of Southern Maryland student Denzel Chance traveled to Annapolis Feb. 20 to testify before the Maryland House of Delegates Appropriations Committee in support of House Bill 0607 —
Delegates and senators representing Maryland will be heading to Annapolis next week, where for the preceding 90 days the 2024 General Assembly session will occur. This will mark the second