One of the things that i loved about the l. A. Times festival of books way before i was our book editor, when i was driving and showing up early in the morning is that we have all of those panels with four authors who are novelists or authors who are people that dont get to see each other. There is a moment they have saying something they are coming up with at that instant and its that exchange of ideas that can only happen in the moment. Watch our live coverage of Los Angeles Times festival of books all weekend april 22nd and 23rd on cspan 2. This weekend on q and a. I really learned the value and discourse. So the way i interact with people who i dont necessarily agree with has completely changed. High School Students attending the Senate Youth Program where they shared their thoughts about government and politics. I can safely say at the end of this week im sure im uncertain of what i believe and i think thats a good thing. Hard work and fair chance for everybody to reach the top wi
Later a look at russias foreignpolicy objectives and its relations with the u. S. And europe from the center for the national interest. Our live coverage begins at 12 40 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Nato secretarygeneral Jens Stoltenberg was in washington this week for a twoday visit. Of his stops included a speech at George Washington university where he took questions from students. Topics included russias military buildup and the syrian civil war. This event happened the day after the secretarygeneral met with President Trump. It is just under an hour. [applause] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. As our guests are being seated im steven knapp, president of im steven knapp, president of George Washington university and im pleased to welcome you. When you do have the opportunity to look outside, we have a balcony here with a broad view of our nations capital. This is an excellent symbol of what it means to be the Largest University in the heart of our nations capital. It affords an excel
Broadcasting todays hearing. And item two, please . Item two, chairs report, this is an information item. Thank you. Colleagues, this has been an exciting month for the Transportation Authority. Last friday i was very happy to join with commissioner kims office to to the cal tran and the chp, and the federal highway administration, and the metropolitan commission, and this was the first major capitol project delivered by the traness powertation authority. And the new ramps provide safe access, and are the first of many Infrastructure Projects planned for the Treasure Island and yerba buena island, i want to con gr congratulate the director, and for competing the 98 Million Dollar project on time and on budget. And i also would like to congratulate cal trans in the opening of the bike and the pedestrian an path, connect tg to the island on sunday. And this regional link was much anticipated on by many people. And a lot of people are going to benefit from this improved access. And so thi
The minutes of the october 18 regular meeting any Public Comment boomer . Know mister chairman moved and seconded. All those in favor say, aye so ordered. Item 5 communications. German nolan directors none. Item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members 52 things to bring up with from the headlines. The first is if we could perhaps get clarification or update on the Service Animal policy. I know that was a new story that was kind of waiting around and i think that its one of those things theres a lot of misinformation out there. You hear a lot of things dogs are okay if they paid up there. Service animals always okay maybe we could clarify that not just for our benefit for the publics benefit. Also for the police will actually have to enforce it if its ever enforce. Then the second one is this is something that we been hearing a lot of correspondence on. The diy street changes being done by an organization in San Francisco and i know there is such a public appetite
Diy street changes being done by an organization in San Francisco and i know there is such a public appetite for Street Safety and while we are diligently working through all of these things i think that the d i y st. Changes are removed from sf mta gets a bit confusing for people so maybe we could get a memo on that and answer specifically some of the email questions that come to us. I just feel that we sort of open to the public to explain how street changes go through and why we would like to see them go faster, what is our policy in terms of the need to go through the process in order to make sure were not only kidding everybody safe with our not leaving ourselves exposed to lawsuits and making the right changes in the right place on our schedule. Members consent will ask director reiskin to come back and report on those items. Ms. Boomer item 7 directors report. Good afternoon members of the chair and numbers of the Board Members of the staff here at. I want to give you a vision z