To watch previews the festival coverage click the book fairs that on our website, bookt booktv. Org. [inaudible] there we go. Ill start over. Welcome. Thanks for coming today. O my name is Susan Barribeau and then work for the madison u libraries as a specialas a collections librarian come and englishlanguage Managers Library in. Welcome to the wisconsin bookies festival. I would like to introduce today our offer, andrea mays who will be talking about her book as this fantastic cover, the millionaire and the bard. Tell you a little bit about andrea mays. Like henry folger been possessed by a lifelong obsession with shakespeare and his times. Andrea spent much of her manhattan girl could hold up and new public labor listening to vinyl of the recordings of performances by the royalo vinyl shakespeare company. A graduate of dispatches that only a protege of frank mccourta but also of his own mentor, the legendary new York Public School teacher. And are has degrees in economics, from State
Families who do not have their loved ones with them. The reason we must Work Together is that a leading killer of americans today is drug overdose, started first by prescription use in many instances. Between 2014 in 2014 almost half a Million People died of drug overdoses. In 2014 alone, more than 27,000 people died of drug overdoses. The largest percentage of Overdose Deaths in 2014 was attributed to opioids like prescription painkillers, methadone,more phone and heroin. Specifically morphine and heroin. Specifically, 26,000 died because of opioid in 2014. This is an emergency and it is a combination of prescription painkillers and heroin. Prescription painkiller abuse is the strongest risk for future levels of use of heroin. Thats athletes or those who have had surgery, Everyday Americans who find themselves caught in the trap of addiction. Approximately three out of four new heroin users report their use began with abuse of prescription drugs. Heroin use becomes appealing to those
Michael obviously there is a lot of political intrigue in the Supreme Court. A lot of powerful people are interested in the decisions that you come to any effects that they have on Public Policy and commerce. My question is, what if any effect is that political interests have on the court decisionmaking process, and what steps do you take to maybe isolate yourself from that political interest . Is it just something that you and the other justices get used to overtime . Justice sotomayor you do not get on the court unless you are a concerned citizen. Every single justice has had a career in which they have devoted their lives, in some form or a the other or the other to the public view. Even any private practice they have been involved in activities that do public service. We are, by nature, citizen lawyers. You do not work as hard as we work, reach where we have reached, unless we have shown that to the powers that be. We get selected because we are the very best at some aspect of the
That do public service. We are, by nature, citizen lawyers. You do not work as hard as we work, reach where we have reached, unless we have shown that to the powers that be. We get selected because we are the very best at some aspect of the work that we have done. That work often includes public service. It means that there is not one of us who was unaware is unaware of political rights. We are aware. We read the newspapers. We listen to the news. Some of us are political junkies. Others are not. Being an informed citizen does not get translated into, now i am going to vote the way the public wants me to. The gift the Founding Fathers gave us is they gave us a lifetime job so that we would not feel pressure to do a decision based on Public Opinion from fear that somehow we would be driven from our work. So were not thinking about Public Opinion in terms of reaching the answer that we believe the law compels. Every year if you read the most sensitive decisions, you will see us recognizi
Years ago this month, and the occasion was the first day of permanent television of the United States senate. We are going to use the opportunity of the 30th anniversary to look back at the senate and how it is changed in the era of television. We have two guests that have been with the senate for 40 years and their careers there, theretired, and they span age of the television before senate and after, so they are ideally suited to help us understand how the institution adapted to the coming of Television Cameras. Let me introduce them to you. Alan frumin is a Senate Parliamentarian emeritus, and as i mentioned he spent 40 years in , the Parliamentarian Office rising to the chief parliamentarian position. Thank you for being with us. Mr. Frumin i am delighted to be here. Don ritchie has set down at our table many times. Historian emeritus, again, 40 years in the United States senate and served as the chief to 2016 androm 2009 has written a number of books. Nice to see you and thank you