I am the Vice President of the open Society Foundation that is hosting this event. And i should say, that we are going to talk to around 45 minutes, give or take. And that we have enough time for another 45 minutes of questions. Those questions that you would like to share with eric and maya and me should be sent to questions at open Society Foundations. Org. Questions and open Society Foundations. Org party can also do this by twitter. If you really need to, you can do it via facebook. We are recording this event. It is being live cast. And it is going to be quite a show. We have someone i have known and admired for a very long time, mile wylie is with us as a discussant. She has a very long time civil rights lawyer and activist, former chair of new york cities civilian Complaint Review board. Former Corporation Counsel to his honor, william de blasio, a University Professor at the school and ongoing legal analyst for both nbc news and msnbc. And so its a great pleasure, maya to be wi
The global pulpit Paper Industry and he holds patents in selfadhesive postage stamps and barcode labels. Never knew that. He is an ohio native who graduated from miami university. Teams part of the research that developed the first commercially successful selfadhesive u. S. Postage stamp. Written 20 civil war and andrground railroad books his biography of general william awardson multiple including a literate literary prize for confederate history. He has written several articles forgetting magazine and several other publications. Scott and his wife debbie reside in northern pennsylvania. Scott thanks for coming today. I want to talk about the role of the railroads in pennsylvania. I have written three books on the railroads. Respectively from east to west, the philadelphiawilmington baltimore railroad. The Northern Central Railway which ran from harrisburg to baltimore. The third key railroad that ran between maryland and pennsylvania during the civil war. The Cumberland Valley railro
For the upset cause. He couldve done that a conditional apology at least. That would have avoided what iiow least. That would have avoided what now transpired, which is the headlines of him refusing to apologise for times when grilled by andrew neil. By the way, i dont think anyone comes out of an injured neil interview particular well. And andrew neil interview. Not to downplay, but is pretty fierce experience. Yeah, this follows the chief rabbi saying that the labour leader was not fit for high office, which personally i wish he had not said that in the middle of an election campaign. I do understand the Community Leaders want to represent their communities and this isa very represent their communities and this is a very real visceral issue for the britishjewish is a very real visceral issue for the British Jewish Community, is a very real visceral issue for the britishjewish community, but i dont think its appropriate to make those comments in the middle of a general election. But t
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