Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is pat tura, and i am the president of the Duboce Triangle neighborhood association. Dtna has been involved in this project for close to seven years. In 2007 the market octavia rezoning Historical Survey was done. In 2008 the proposed duboce park landmark district was identified and documented as eligible for the national register. In 2011, it was added to the landmark designation work program. The planning staff has done an excellent job in frameworking and doing the Due Diligence in working with the community to identify the value of this historical resource. They worked at the request of really come to honor and to codify this Historic Resource there. As peter said, in this area is found one of the largest concentrations of intact historical buildings anywhere in the city. Reason to phase and preserve these buildings. It was at the request of the neighborhood that supervisor wiener worked to amend the mills act to better understand the workings
Indiana University Robert h Mckinney School of law. Hes the author of many books which weve had the pleasure of discussing at the ncc and the most recent which were here to talk about is washingtons air the life of justice, bushrod, washington. Maybe marcus is Research Professor of law and directer of the institute for constitutional studies at the George Washington University Law school where weve been colleagues for many years as editor of the documentary history of the Supreme Court of the United States 1789 to 1800 professor marcus published eight volumes with many articles on legal history. She was appointed by the librarian of congress as the general editor of the Oliver Wendell holmes devised the history of the Supreme Court of the United States in 20 15 and walter starr is a historian a New York Times best selling author a twotime winner of the seward award for excellence in civil war biography. Hes the author of several books including john jay founding father and most recentl
Ive actually emailed all of you my specific articles so you have that detailed. What i want to put on the record today is a list of 18 residences, 16 are owners, all of them are opposed to this designation. This is not lent to represent everyone who is opposed but those who i could speak with personally and gave me permission to present their names today. So i have i was at the mercy of someone elses printer so i only have one copy but i will provide that. And so despite what i believe are the best intentions by the city to run a survey, i know that myself, i did not receive a card in the mail. I know several other neighbors were not notified. And so that is why i went around and actually started to talking to people because i didnt feel it accurately represented what was going on in our neighborhood. If you look at these numbers what you have is really a neighborhood that is split. And i think thats unfortunate. I think were still a very cohesive neighborhood but we are deeply divided
The distinguished panel of gold medal olympian women back in 2012 on the 40th anniversary of president nixons signing of title 9 alan barra wrote an op at in the New York Times titled. Female athletes. Thank nixon. And now on the 50th anniversary. I saw a column that said june 23 1972 was one of the most important days in the history of sports. I really agree with that. Titles nine had only 37 words, but those 37 words changed the history of sports in america and even the history of america itself. And those 37 words have changed and are still changing. Today on our panel. Youre about to meet three extraordinary women. Three olympians who made history representing america three champions who acknowledge and honor the part that title nine has played in their careers and in their lives. The first one is janet evans. Who . Who won four . Four gold medals in three Olympic Games. She broke seven World Records and won 17 International Titles five Us National Titles five World Championship ti
The Baton Rouge story of Reymond s Department Store is bigger than its selection of purple and gold ribbon, though that s the part of the story most important to LSU fans.