Brought to you today by your television provider. Let me tell you a little bit about our author this evening. David randles a Senior Reporter and this tickled me im going to share pretty covers everything from cannabis, to knock knock jokes. His two previous books are dreamland, adventures and strange science of sleep. And the king and queen of malibu, the true story of the battle for paradise which is currently in development as a television series. Hes appeared on ennis nbc, fox, reuters, and rp, and elsewhere. His third book the black death of the gold eight entering dates. Please join me in welcoming david randall. [applause] guest thank you all for coming, especially given the weather outside. It is nice to be inside where it is dry as to oppose to outside works wet. One thing i realize, so my first book was about sleep science. And when i went and talked about that book i realize that many people were coming to the talks because there had their own sleep disorders and they wanted
Different directions and some of the worst tragedies on the planet, but you chose to really focus on a small town in oregon. Why . We were running around the world covering humanitarian crises and then we would periodically go back to my beloved hometown where my mom is still on the family farm and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids on my old Number Six School bus are now gone from drugs and alcohol and suicide and carolyn i tried to process that. The guys who got on the bus right after me were the map kid kids. Nathan and keelan and their sister regina, smart, talented kids. One died in a house fire passed out drunk, another blew himself up cooking math and regina died from hepatitis from shooting up. So for a while we wondered is there something about my bus, about yamhill and then we realize this is a National Problem that we have been in despair and the Life Expectancy has been falling for three years of a row and its a microcosm to see that panic a
Interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. Great to be with you, i want to get ready to talk about your book, open borders inc. Thinking. First rtf your book capture my attention because something being a congress of texas, the operational control over border, ive been to the border number under numerous times, the 2 million a week that was moving people crossed, you know this well, its a real problem, theyre the ones profiteering on the back of migrants and women and children, can you talk about that, one of the opening points you make in your great put enter book. The work that you are doing is so important to enlighten the American Public about the cartel having at the border in the horrifying and appalling impact that has two innocent people on both sides of the border, one of the things that i think is really important to illuminate in chapter one of the book, what i call as a caravan cartel, the drug cartel cannot do it alone in its shocking that not that you ha
District. And running for office he ran several nonprofits including the portland habitat for humanity. But running for office is not the only running that he does. As he is a twotime ironman triathlon finisher. [applause] he completed the 2012 ironman North Carolina in the 2016 which raised over 20000 for nonprofits. That is amazing. [applause] his first book he will be discussing is america is better than this which tells the inside story of how one senator when no background is immigration activist became a leading advocate for reform of the brutal policies that are creating a humanitarian crisis on the southern u. S. Border. It represents a heartfelt of the concerned americans who believes his country stands for something far bigger and better. Tonight, senator merkley will be joined and conversation with ralph ronald. He is currently the executive producer of Community Engagement of public radio he has worked since 1987 serving previously as news director and Program Director and
It is so important to enlighten the American Public atheartels have at the border that is important to illuminate and what is shocking to people not express it that are not making these billions of dollars with families and children with this organization and we know that road good intentions pave. Liberals are reacting to the trump presiden presidency. Tonight we are extremely excited to be welcoming u. S. Senator jeff markley. [applause] he has been the senator from oregon since 2009 and prior to that he was in five to remember serving the oregon 47th district. And running for office he ran several nonprofits including the portland habitat for humanity. But running for office is not the only running that he does. As he is a twotime ironman