Business. Lets jump right into it. Its safe to say we were thinking of the Home Strategies and the big focus was election 2020. We all know we had to leap into a new posture with people working from home and there is a lot of impact not to mention those just from the lifestyle of health to proliferate. It is a pretty big undertaking. I would say that i am really pleased with how prepared are. We already mad made a number of platform decisions so weve are leveraging called services i would say w we have to like everyonhad to likeeveryone elsea better job probably the two biggest areas that were challenges and opportunities is to figure out how we do our work and in the same ways that we had before. We had to figure out different ways to have this footprint and giving as much of our work as we could where we learned a number of things. The other part of that is we serve the rest of the executive Branch Agencies as well as other constituent agencies. Many of them were less prepared than w
Book as director of legal policy and he holds a jd and mba from yale and a ba in economics and other firm chapel hill as a morehead scholar glad to have you with us. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Its always a pleasure to speak to those at the foundation i have said it before add a National Think tank so much policy happens on the state level and it is a Gold Standard think tank that has helped me to shape North Carolina and a lot of the resilience right now to have found a cisco flooding in the middle of a pandemic is due to the great work the John Locke Foundation has done thank you. Thank you for those comments you actually live in North Carolina so your book writes about federal policy but you follow state Public Policy as well and hopefully after we talk about your book you will get your take what is happening with Governor Cooper and Emergency Powers use here in North Carolina but i have to tell you the book is unelected you can buy the book now i think my col
Public comment. Reminder to all participants to mute themselves to minimize background noise. Please note gray indicates unmuted. This is caption test. Use the live item 5 action item. Of the august 12, 2020 retirement Board Meeting. Its a motion for the august 12, 2020 Board Meeting. So moved. Madame president we received a request to the Administrative Changes to the minutes. She made Public Comment and we indicated she represented the retired employees. She would like the title of her organization to be spelled out in the minutes. I would propose that we make that one correction on page 9 [indiscernible]. Sorry for the interruption. Ill second it. Accept the change. Moved and seconded. Well adopt the minutes with the requested changes and accepted by executive director huish. At this time well take Public Comment. Thank you. Callers, if you have not already done so press star 3 to be added. For those already on hold please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been un
Thats the worst performance in two weeks. The dow has been down. Nasdaq have been down five out of six the tech selloff was worst it continued down 3 led lower by stocks like apple the same old story big volatility coming. Those are really the tail thats been wagging the dog for a while. Youll see the nasdaq is lower once again the other two averages hanging in there the s p on the flat line nasdaq down another 50 points. Fur watching what is happening over the last two months they closed. Dow at the lowest level since the third. The 10year sitting at 0. 66 the story that seems to never end, tiktok. Here we go the owner bytedance applying for an export license in china as it pushes for a deal in oracle and walmart. They did not mention the pending deal and technology it was seeking to support calling the deal dirty and unfair they have no reason to approve it all of this raising questions about that prospect and what that would ultimately look like. What happened earlier in the week we
Lake berryessa safe again and in the meantime napa county deputies want to make sure that people stay away. Napa counties, Lake Berryessa might seem like the ideal place to cool off an escape this weekends scorching temperatures but because of the hennessy fire. The lake is off limits through labor day the areas surrounding the lake. The infrastructure and some places the roadway itself. Suffered some pretty some pretty significant damage. A county under sheriff John Crawford says deputies will be patrolling the lake to keep people away. The closure is for safety and will allow hundreds of crews to remove trees clear around roads and put in new utility poles and lines all that work needs to happen without visitors flocking to the lake theres just a lot just a lot of things that need to be. Taking care of cleaned up repaired. Before people can really safely come back and recreate a late various, the head of the fire is the largest of the lnu complex fires, its burned more than 310,000 a