Democracy. Thanks to cspan for being here. We are doing things a little differently today because of cspan being here which means i will say a little more about what the Kinder Institute is so for the tv audience. Founded in 2014 the Kinder Institute is a joint project with the university of missouri Political Science and history departments in cooperation with other scholars across campus. It is dedicated to research, teaching and Community Engagement on the subject of american political thought and history seen in broad context and from a wide variety of perspectives. Created by a gift from rich and nancy kinder. We are grateful they made the bold choice of humanities and social sciences at the university of missouri as one of their philanthropies. Our hope is to teach and learn about american constitutional democracy as the founders created it but not just that. We want to understand the ideas that inspire the founders as well as those they disagreed with and over. We want to unders
Associate director of the institute on constitutional democracy. Thanks to cspan for being here. We are doing something a little differently because of cspan being here. For instance, im going to say a little bit more about what the institute is at the beginning for the tv audience. Founded in 2014, it is a joint project between the university of missouri Political Science and history departments in cooperation with other scholarly groups on campus. Dedicated to research, teaching, and Community Engagement on the subject of american political thought and history seen in broad context and from a wide variety of perspectives. It is created from a generous gift from the Kinder Foundation of houston, texas, and we are they made history and social sciences at the university of missouri as one of their philanthropies among many others they could choose. Our goal is to teach and learn about american constitutional democracy as the founders created it, but not just that. We want to understand
Nine people have pled guilty in this case so far. Others are coming forward as witnesses. You can hear supporters and protesters who gathered on an allentown street yesterday as pawlowski answered to some of the charges in the complaint talking about how he has a job to do and he is going to continue doing it. Prosecutors say pawlowski sold his office for high priced entertainment like eagles game tickets and big time seats for senate. I have done nothing wrong. Nor have i ever personally accepted a dime beyond my salary as mayor. Reporter now, ed pawlowski is expected to appear here in federal court by this afternoon. The hearing will be relatively short. Hell go before a judge. Hell be represented business hi attorney and hes expected to head back to allentown to the job he says that hes not giving up. In fact, hes also speaking reelection. Reporting live, nbc 10 news. Thank you. New from overnight, flames destroy this home in montgomery county. Fire and smoke were coming from the ho
The home or taken to the hospital, but were on the way to the scene and well have more information. And a devastating impact of the opioid epidemic. Authorities say he delivered right to a Womans Hospital room and she died. She overdosed on fentanyl in may. Nurses found her unresponsive on the bathroom floor with Drug Paraphernalia nearby. Travis suda brought her drugs before her death, not once, but five times. Were talking about 80 here and weve lost a life. Back in april, District Attorney promised quote, if you deal drugs like pills, heroin or fentanyl and can and that we can prove that it killed someone, you will be charged with homicide and thats exactly what happened in this case. Two Police Officers are recovering from minor injuries following this accident. This was at skinton avenue a little after 9 00 last night. The police suv has heavy front end damage. And police have taken someone into custody after teens were seen throwing rocks on to i95 in philadelphia and putting dri
And came for a particular type of freedom and had to Work Together for a first ethically diverse society, ethnic and religious and background diversity truly leads to creativity. It was that sort of bubbling mix there that allows philadelphia to become a place of great commerce, but also, a place of great middle class entreprene entrepreneursh entrepreneurship. Startup and innovation. Benjamin franklin eventually decides after being an apprentice to a printer there to start his own print shop. And goes over to england, buys the type and the found rips and stuff. Back then, philadelphia had i think 11 newspapers and he starts the 12th. It was really great in the days in which it was great competing voices and there were newspapers for the and he kans and for penn family and the propry tories and people loyal to the crown and ben franklin starts the first really independent newspaper, not affiliated with any faction but really being willing to poke fun at all factions and to stand up for