Politicians as we travel the nation in search of their stories. Coming up first. U. S. Congressman and senator, former wisconsin senator, and i20 for Progressive Party william bob elephant. It is a glorious service. The call comes to every citizen. It is an unending struggle to make and keep government representative. Bob lafollett is probably the most important political figure in Wisconsin History and one of the most important in the history of the 20th century of the United States. He was a reforming governor. He defined what,. Senator who is ready nice by his peers in the 1950s as one of the five greatest senators in american history. He was an opponent of world war i, stood his ground advocating for free speech. Above all Bob Lafollett was about the people. After the civil war america changed radically from a nation of Small Farmers and small producers and small manufacturers and by the 1870s and 1880s, 1890s we had concentrations of wealth. We had growing inequality had we had co
Good evening everyone, welcome to our latest raven book chat and i am will pick talks at the hawkins and i thank you for joining us tonight. Im starting to sound like a broken record before every event but these days when theres so many options for things to do with every time. You could just sit on your couch never evening. Through you critique alexei for us to have folks come in for our events so we really appreciate it. I know that the staff of raven bookstore appreciated as well. Ill introduce you to our guest speaker, james sherow is a professor and the department of history at Kansas State University and he specializes in Research Environmental history and north American Indian history and history of the American West. Professor sherow as written six books norment articles and empire across the heartland, rephotographing alexander gardeners journey which is a familiar resource first staff involved here and i know we have that book on our shelves and weve used it. And the grasslan
Governments handling of the war on gaza. Theyre demanding that the government should do more to secure the release of his ready captives. How inside districts, the german charge, the off sold says heading to jordan and israel for the to day visit. It shows the 2nd trip to the region until and since the war on guns have begun, he says well discuss the possibility of getting more aden to the strip with israels leaders. The spirit associates confidence, it would be important for an arrangement to be reached very quickly now on a ceasefire that would allow the hostages to be released. And at the same time, allow humanitarian a to reach casa. And its also important that a large scale offensive and rough uh, where many people who no longer had a safe place in other parts of gauze i have fled to does not result in a major human tragedy. This is something i think everyone knows. And yet Everyone Needs to know what that is ready. Im just kind of more air strikes and southern 11 on huge plumes o
[inaudible conversations] good morning everybody. i m pleased to call the subcommittee meeting on conservation climate, forestry and natural resourcesli to order and i m also grateful to ranking member marshall for his partnership in organizing today s hearing on western water resilience. i know he shares my concerns about the unprecedented drought the west faces especially as it relates to the declining water levels in the ogle la la aquifer. our purpose this morning is simple, to sound the alarm about the water crisis in the americn west. the west has not been i this dry in 1200 years. 1200 years. and if we don t get our act together here it s going to not only put our western agriculture risk but the american west as we know it. my i states it is that the headwaters the colorado river which starts in the rockies before cuttingst across 1400 mis to the sea of cortez. the colorado river basin is the lifeblood of the american southwester and provides the drinking water for
With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners well explore the citys history and literary community, beginning with author pat oneill on the history of irish immigrants and how they helped build kansas city in what it is today. One of my Favorite Places in the whole cold is browns market run by john and john mcclain and cary brown. And they start the business in the late 1880s. Irish style. The oldest continual Retail Operation in west of the mississippi, maybe in the whole world. But browns is kind of our community center. One of those great Little Corner Neighborhood Grocery stores where people are extended credit in the neighborhood, people came here for generations, and its now kind of the same thing. People come here just to gossip and compare notes notes and head kids. So, its a much like a small town Crossroads Store in ireland. The title of the book, from the bottom up, its in the sense that in kansas city, were along the rivers, and the Missouri River in the kansas river and it