Tonight, excellent. Andthe publisher of zocalo a proud affiliate of Arizona State university. [applause] our mission is to connect people with ideas to each other. Everything we do is free. Everyone is welcome. We pride ourselves on having the most diverse public forum than any city in the United States online and on the graph. We are a magazine of ideas. We publish 700 essays a year and syndicate them to media outlets. The Houston Chronicle to the washington post. Since our founding, we have sented 543 free events [applause] featuring thank you, speakers from 23 cities, seven states, and six countries. I am pleased to say, as of today, we are proud to announce this is our home. [applause] trust me, we are very happy about it. Its of particular interest to me, our offices will be nextdoor as the first the temple on the west coast and we are told its haunted and im freaked out by the argan the other cool freaked out by that. Thing is that my greatgrandfather was a brick layer on this pl
Everyone is welcome. We pride ourselves on having the most diverse public forum than any city in the United States online and on the graph. We are a magazine of ideas. We publish 700 essays a year and syndicate them to media outlets. The Houston Chronicle to the washington post. Since our founding, we have presented 543 free events [applause] featuring, thank you, featuring speakers from 23 cities, seven states, and six countries. I am pleased to say, as of today, we are proud to announce this is our home. [applause] trust me, we are very happy about it. Its of particular interest to me, our offices will be nextdoor as the first the temple on the west coast and we are told its haunted and im freaked out by the argan the other cool freaked out by that. The other cool thing is that my greatgrandfather was a brick layer on this place. We believe in treating Community Around ideas creating Community Around ideas and that is why our events are always followed by refreshments to continue the
This festival highlights to the best things mississippi does. Our authors and our readers. As you will soon see, we will unveil a new literary map. We have lots of authors to celebrate. More than 220 will be on hand today to engage the readers and we hope, sell a lot of books. We are grateful that cspan is here to broadcast many of our panels and we are honored to have the librarian of Congress Join us in this celebration. [applause] immediately after this opening, congressman greg harper, thank you for coming mr. Chairman will join the doctor and engage in this room and a great conversation about reading books in the library of congress. This great room that we are in, the Old Supreme Court chambers have become nickname the cspan room around the capital. It is also the senates Main Committee room and we know our manners in mississippi and we would not be in this room without the graciousness of the lieutenant governor. Thank you. What a privilege it is for us to be here in the mississ
Featuring 1291 speakers in 23 cities, seven states and six countries. But i am pleased to say as of today were really proud to announce this is our home, the National Center for the preservation of democracy. Trust me, were very happy about it. Of particular interest to me, our offices will be next door in the building that was constructed in 1924. Im told its haunted. Im a little freaked out by that. The other cool thing is my great grandfather was a bricklayer on this building in the middle of los angeles. So i own the place, by my logic. All of our events are followed by a reception to which everyone can grab either a glass of wine or water and continue the conversation with tonights featured guest and one another. Please give a warm welcome to ms. Goldie bloomenstick. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for joining us here tonight. I understand theyre going to be showing the bat signal tonight at 7 30 in l. A. We have a terrific panel here tonight. Im going to introduce the panel. We h
Its unclear when she was hit in the head or what day she died. The youngsters appeared to be wearing School Uniforms on a saturday night. I feel sorry for the children. They lost their mother and for the fact that she lost her life. Reporter detectives have done interviews and collected evidence but so far no one is saying if the homicide is random or targeted. Police collected surveillance tape from two businesses within 50fo 50footsteps of the home. Come forward. Whatever youre doing, stop doing what youre doing because youre not hurting nobody but yourself. Reporter we asked prosecutors and local police but dont know if anyone forced their way inside or if anyone dialed 911. We didnt hear screaming or anything like that. Reporter local residents want whomever did this to turn themselves in. A vigil to pray for Shawneeq Carter will be held tomorrow night. A councilmember woman put out these flyers. She put them in all resident mailboxes about an hour ago. The vigil will be held thurs