This is clearly intended to speak to just that moment. There couldnt be a better time to hear from on his sense of how to approach in this question. Bill maclean is a national treasure. Wilfred mcclay. Hes admired and beloved by scores of students past and present. It was also one of the great writers of American History. His book, the master list self was judged best book in American Intellectual history the year it was published. Among his other wonderful books of American History are our students guides to us history. Finding the human person in the american past. Hes also been a historian active in the service of his country. Bill served for 11 years on the National Council of humanities which is the Advisory Board of the National Endowment for humanities. Hes a member of the u. S. centennial commission. The Commission Planning the official public commemoration of americas 250 anniversary in 2026. He received his phd from johns hopkins. With this latest book, hes made an extraordin
Booktv and free speech tv. So i would ask to everybody to check their cellphones just to make sure that your cellphone is off. And also just so you know its being filmed tonight. We will be taking questions later, and passing around note cards, and then reading the questions from up here so they can also be part of the livestream and the booktv and there will be a booksigning afterwardded. Hay market books has a table and gary will by signing books. So please join is. This weekend i went to d. C. And had a couple of extra hour size went to she the king memorial. How many people have seen it . Its exceedingly depressing. Im sure he monument included alcoves to honor other civil rights martyr its but those were scrapped. King towers over us, the sculpture is flanked with a granite wall, 14 quotes on the wall, not one uses the word racism or segregation or Racial Injustice or apartheid, not one. Theyre earned like crossstretches, in 1963, 1967, 1955, 1963, 1964. Completely out of context
Also with us tonight or chief chief scott and director henderson from the Police Accountability board. You have a quorum. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. This is the december 11th, 2019 meeting of the San Francisco police commission. We do have a lengthy meeting tonight due to items on closed session and the complexity of the issues on the agenda so we will be limiting Public Comment to two minutes. Just a few housekeeping matters before we get started, there are some line items on the agenda that we will be removing from the agenda. Line item two is being removed from tonight agenda at the chief s request so sfpd and d. P. A. Can review and discuss. A line item one a is also being removed from the agenda. This is the presentation of the first and Second Quarter 2019 firearm discharge review board findings. That is an item that is obviously very important and we take seriously. I know many of us received the materials yesterday so we need additional time to look at the cases and pre
And for this morning. But things have been dissipating. The bulk of the activity in terms of the active weather is down towards central and Southern California. Temperatures right now look at that. Santa rosa has cooled off to 33 degrees. So theres a chill in the air up in sonoma county. San francisco 45. And san jose currently checking in at 50 degrees. We will talk more about the weekend outlook in few minutes. Time 7 01. Lets check in with allie standing by with an update on the rowways. How we looking . Traffic looks good. A lot of light traffic heading out on the roads. Wherever you are going. Especially in the south bay of the no problems to tell you about here. 7 00 on a regular weekday morning when we see the commute build up thats not the case. A lot of people staying home or maybe out of town. Lets check on that crash we told you about earlier in the vallejo area. Eastbound 80 at American Canyon on the way to being a cleared up at this point. The lanes are back opened as tow
Back. Over. Their lives this is. The mindset talking to. Them in. California as landmarks give economy law goes into a fact could it all shred big changes for tech firms like hoover and what expense for freelancers some of whom say theyre already losing clients. Also on the show french workers are up in arms over Pension Reforms for young tech entrepreneurs say the country is doing right by them. And well talk to american author Jeremy Rifkin who argues the u. S. Needs to massively overhauls economy to become greener. This is your Business Report im stephen bears in berlin its good to have you with us california both one of the Worlds Largest economies raking close to the u. K. In total annual output or g. D. P. Thats one multinational firms pay close attention to regulations in the state and thats why the world is watching californias new gig economy law which went into effect wednesday the measure aims to protect free lance and contract workers by requiring many to be reclassified as