The possibility. My experience said you may as well go as big as you can. Reporter there is the tug of war about where the extra 125 million a year should go. Ferries, transit systems, bart. We should stand up and make sure its spent here, not on other projects in San Francisco. You have nine counties that you have to plug in. The metropolitan Transportation Commission is usually the nexus to the legislation. It requires their active engagement. It took us over a year to negotiate the last one so its nothing you can put together overnight. Given the failure of sacramento and washington, dc we have no choice. Reporter theres a political angle at play here, as well. You see, unlike a gas or sales tax, which everyone pays, only about a third of the voters in the bay area use the bridges regularly. So that means, two out of three voters wont have to pay. So its really a tax or fee that somebody else has paid. Reporter next is for the local and state leaders get together and put together a
Minded place. Partly because we read the principle in high school. Half of the people dissented from the families affected in 1692 were when they were in high school. Partly because it has such resonance. Brian when you were here four years ago for cleopatra, you were talking about this book. I want to look at a minute. Stacy something reassuring about a biography, an obvious structure most of the time. A beginning, middle, and end. And a pleasure of killing off your subject. It is gratifying kind of work. Brian what year . A good question, 1994. The next book about vera nabokov , the wife of the writer. And known for lolita, about the marriage. The third book about ben franklin. It was a pleasure, very difficult to research. , cleopatra. Tasks one of the blessings of biography is it you do not have to look at your own life. You examine somebody elses life. I am sure theres a reason about that. Then doesoug and salem witch trials. I am from massachusetts. Brian when will it come out .
Century not less early the was not necessarily involved in salem. And the pieces began to come together. I am glad to say it would take four or five years. Brian in update about the whole story in case there are people like i was who deny know very who did not know very much about it. What were the years youre talking about . Stacy really nine months. The witchcraft breaks out, first diagnosed in february 1692. The crisis, snowball over the the crisis will snowball over the next few months. The tighter incident is over by the fall. Really nine months from start to end. I think largely, conceptions of it are very skewed. Wheres not an incident men are choosing women. An incident all of the victims are women. We had five male victims. We hang to the witches. In addition to the speed, so much encrusted myth and misunderstanding here. I thought it was important to dispel. Brian where is salem in massachusetts . Stacy northeastern massachusetts. 20 or 30 minutes from boston. Brian how many
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