I like to say that we are in a highly constrained environment here in washington, d. C. I think we can all agree to that. Is there more that you can do . If there were more funding, is there more that you could do or are you at a point where you recognize the reality that funding is in short supply and the chances of maybe getting more is not so great at this point . What is your sense of that . One thing is to do more with less. For instance, in the area of designing educational curriculums, we have our own inhouse studio. We create the content that we use. We dont have to use thirdparty vendors. I can be expensive. We leverage our partnerships with various companies. They service the distribution platforms. Where we need to be further engaged is getting in front of the schools on a nationwide basis, not on a community by community or even statebystate, but on a nationwide approach because we have the ageappropriate messaging. It is not a onesizefitsall. And we can track these kids fr
I er the last four years, have done enough back and forth, ttweeted both parties equal further, that people will now come to grudgingly say, okay, you are someone we can do business with. The Senate Majority pac, which affiliated with harry reid, they stopped answering my questions midway through the Campaign Season because they felt they were not getting a fair shake for me. Pm sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. On the cspan , networks. Here are some of our future programs. 10 00 am eastern, the washington ideas form. Energy conservation. K club owner, warren brown. An inventor, dean kamen. 4 oclock eastern, the Brooklyn Historical Society Holds a conversation on race. And apollo 7 astronaut, walt cunningham, on the first manned spaceflight. New years day on cspan2, author hector tobar on the 33 men who were buried in a chilean mine. And Richard Norton smith on the life of rockefeller. And Cheryl Atkinson, on her on the nces reporting obama administration. New yea
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On methods to reduce gun violence so were discussing the membership and the duties of the task force with the legislation. Also i want to call theres been a lot of reference to the budget legislative Analyst Report which is available today for the members of the public. Its a good read and talks about things that are important. There are three key things i will put into this particular ordinance. First of all this body is defining performance metrics to evaluate Nonprofit Organization and Department Heads using money, general fund dollars. Second, this report specifically calls out that the board of supervisors needs better information on gun violence prevention programming in order to effectively appropriate money. Believe it or not there are 11 departments that receive almost 50 million and there is inconsistencies under the definition of what is violence prevention . What is a Strong Program versus an Inadequate Program . So this legislation will require the Department Head toss com
Palestinians have died. Any indications of deal can be met . There are three options. Complete wreck down in the talks that can lead to a resumption of hostilities. That is a scenario that israel is prepared for. Israeli premier was speaking alongside his defense minister fire had come from gaza the response would be forceful. The implements of hamas would be heart of the delegation. Israel should prepare for a war of attrition. Should their demands not be met. Calm is met with this and allows both parties to keep talking. It would be for both of them to reach a full agreement through egypts mediation which would and theend to the war complete satisfaction of the palestinian and the israelis. That does not seem likely at this point. Is there any room for compromise on these issues . The very latest rumors we are , what is going on behind closed doors is kept under tight lock. Bites from hamas they were aying the war is behind us and what we will have is extension. Obstacles have been o