American civil war emirates at the university of virginia and the founding director of our cosponsor john l mal iii studies at university of virginia. And knowing is that gary was about to retire number of years ago and move west ive been writing about every introduction for him in the last few years as if it were the last time wed see him in richmond, i apologize to gary to frying to kick him out of the state every time he speaks. Im very happy to have been wrong in my assumption that garys retirement meant farewell and very surprised he remains a fixture in the commonwealth. Im sure everyone knows garys contributions to the field of study are many and varied including writing more than 30 books and hundreds of artic thes and reviews articles and reviews and a frequent contributor and columnist in prominent civil war magnificent zee magazines and editor of the most popular civil war books civil war series and mentor to scores of students at penn state university. And university of vir
Rural communities that belong to us, and we we are their city. Right now were standing in the historic santa fe depot. When you think about building the entire city of amarillo, the materials for building our city came through this depot. They arrived by rail right here, and so our city has grown, and we started as a farming, agricultural town. But now we are an urban center for the texas panhandle of 500,000 people. So none of that could have happened without this location being right here by the rail and so much of our industry and even just our materials to live daytoday lives came right here. Of course, the depot say vacant. Were not using it for a train station. We dont have Passenger Service in our city anymore, but we are still a significant hub for bnss, and its important in the coast to coast travel of marketing goods by rail, were still an important part of that. And the reason amarillo was such a key point in the railroad was, yes with, the cattle industry. We traded cattle
Haj please welcome the Heritage Foundation executive Vice President kim holmes. A nice rainy day outside and everybody is all bunched together to keep warm. Good morning everybody. How is everybody this morning . Governor welcome to the the Heritage Foundation it is a pleasure to have you here. Its a pleasure to welcome governor mike of alaska. And he will be speaking on the budget spending and what alaska can provide the nation as an example. Governor done was elected as governor of alaska 2018 hes had had a very career in alaska since arrival there in 1983 from working in a logging camp and southeast, alaska. To pursuing his dream in an educationer career as a teacher. He has a unique insight into alaskas communities due to his two decades of service there. He also served for five years as an alaska state senator. So he knows alaska literally from coast to coast. And that provides not only a unique perspective on had his state but also what can we from the 48 can learn from alaskas e
. a . a little bit under women and seniors and still under performing among women and trump is doing well among black, hispanic and young compared to previous campaigns and you are right, absolutely the movement is among independent and they have moved in recent polls roughly 9 points towards biden at 21% of independent in a survey shortly after the conviction said that they were the less likely to vet for donald trump as a result of the conviction. you know, john, in close elections where michigan wisconsin will probably be decided for under a point. that fluctuation really mat matters. one thing he didn t did donald trump ■çwill tell you is he has the joan rivers vote locked away. okayings my god. just like he has in the past. so he s at least got that on the side bit. independent have broken away, and again, we hear it every four years, donald trump is going to get 20% of the black vote, 25% of the black vote. it doesn t happen. well, as i will, you know, be
Tried to do in new york was to leverage shared Regional Service providers to try to ensure that districts were able to get the students the services they needed in a sustainable way. But certainly, i want to make sure our teams connect on that and talk through that because we certainly want to be in the position of supporting districts and serving students with disabilities as well as possible. Thank you. And my final comment is that i hope you will have a listening session in a rural area. We talked about that in my office, as opposed to just large urban areas like l. A. And d. C. Yes. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, senator collins. Senator casey. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Dr. King, welcome. Thank you for your testimony and your willingness to serve, and we appreciate that commitment. We want to commend and salute your family, as well, because when you serve, they serve with you, in one way or another. We appreciate the commitment your familys made to this high level of Public Servi