Hillary ronan, chair of the committee. Im joined by vice chair supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton, our clerk is stephanie cabrera. And id like to thank jason goldhammer at sf govtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you. The board of supervisors and its committees are now convening hybrid meetings that allow inperson attendance and Public Comment while still providing Remote Access and Public Comment via telephone. Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. Those attending in person will be allowed to speak first. Then we will take those who are waiting on the telephone line for the public call in number is screening. Sorry streaming across your screen. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions, but youll be muted and in listening mode only when your item of interest comes up and Public Comment is called those joining us in person should line up to speak and those on the telephone should dial star thr
Did, a family with very conservative values but very liberal political allegiances, and then end up becoming politically conservative. It also became a perspective of how i viewed issues through that political lens. So coming into our Current Situation here in lynchburg at liberty university, number one, its an academic perspective. Number two, since its a private christian institution, the theological perspective came into play as well. And i think a lot of the issues that i talked about in the book where i had Political Solutions, i think i now look to more Spiritual Solutions particularly since the community that ive dealt with here not just at liberty university, but in lynchburg has really given me a different perspective, maybe even a little more empathy about issues and challenges that people are facing and what they need to do to overcome them. Can we talk about initially in the book what were some of the topics that you were tackling, and why did you name the book the title th
Is professor ron miller on his book sellout. When you and i spoke on the phone to book this interview, you said that since moving to lynchburg, the perspective had changed. Can you explain that . When i wrote the book i was on the outskirts of washington, d. C. , and the center cover that has an influence on the perspective and view of things and i was politically active at the time so all of those things made the book not only a memoir explanation of how someone could grow up in a family and cited with very conservative values and then end up becoming politically conservative. Coming into the present situation of lynchburg, it is an academic perspective and since it is a private christian institution, the logical perspective came up to play as well. I think a lot of the issues that i talk about in the book were Political Solutions that look to more spiritual solutions. Particularly since the community that i dont live here but just Liberty University that lynchburg has given a differe
Esthetic, maybe amendment hesic, maybe a better word would be snobbery. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. Located in the foothills of the blue Ridge Mountains along the james river, it has a population of about 80,000 people. Founded in 1757, lynchburg was named more its founder for its founder, john lynch. The city is home to poplar forest, Thomas Jeffersons private retreat. And with the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next 90 minutes well feature the citys Literary History beginning with poet ann spencer. Ann spencer was a poet, an american poet mostly associated with the harlem renaissance period in 19241945. How she becomes part of the harlem renaissance is how harlem comes to lynchburg. Unfortunately, theres a whole group of people who are associated with that period of time like ann spencer that people dont know about. Ann spencer was born in 1882 in henry county, virginia, which is southwestern vir
From the record highs. The dow is now down nearly 15 . The s p is off 12. 5 . Check out these staggering figures. S p 500 companies lost another 900 million in market cap yesterday. They lost nearly 2 trillion in market cap over the last seven sessio sessions. You see rich people lost 185 billion recently. This is good. This income inequality thing. Taking care of it. This is not i also like the now were going to do this every day where we can close on change but if thats not interesting enough its like a fit bit for the market. Its not even the range anymore. Its brand new. Were talking about the full ride. We moved 100,000 points this week. It means nothing. We totalled it up for you. Lets tell you where the u. S. Futures are after what was a wild yesterday as things got pretty bad late in the day. Well try to get an explanation from our guests throughout the morning but the dow jones does look like it will oip up now 275 points up. S p 500 would open up higher as well. 33 points hig