That you are abandoning anyone, or that you are doing a disservice to other groups. You can do both, you know . And its important to focus on yourself sometimes. And im not sure that there is one answer. A lot of the things that were talking about sort of go toward this point. There may not be a solution that allows you to strike the balance that you want, but that you can invest and engage in all kinds of different struggles and work toward making things more equal. And you are, if youre asking these questions, youre already doing the work of balancing, right . If youre already considering how does a voice are not get how does my voice not get drowned out, how do i work for other people but not let my work for other people in some way silence or diminish my own role here, these are questions that i nate t these are questions that resinate social movements that are in process right now. Youre already doing a lot of re alr i regret that theres no time to address but i love the fact that
Were pleased to have with us, author, juan s. Thompson. His new book, stories of myself. Growing up with hunter s. Thompson. His father and the relationship. He is with bestselling authors doug loose brinkley. His latest book is on ourselves right now. Join us welcoming Juan Thompson and douglas brinkley. [applause] we want to welcome juan to austin. He is a longtime friend and robin thompson, and where is robin . Is here right now . Robin is here. Juan has family in town. Hunters kinfolk live here. But wanted to begin, juan will do so reading of stories i tell myself. Im here because i edited hunter thompsons letters, the book, proud highway, fear and loathing in america. Wrote Rolling Stone cover story about him when he died and you know, i constantly try to promote hunter as one of the Great American humorists and Great American novelists. Well talk about some of hunter s books i want so begin, juan, maybe read a letter you suggested. Would you like to get us going with reading some
And baby are in critical condition. One passenger was able to talk to police. Officers believe drugs may have played a role in the crash. These are live artimis pictures from 275 at 27. Near the crash. As you can see. Traffic is very slow while officers investigate. We expect it will be that way for a while since this is a fatal crash. Nine on your side will continue to cover this for you and and well have more information on nine on your side at five. Right now investigators are trying to figure out why a driver ran into the back of a school bus in Highland County early this morning. The crash left the driver dead and injured several students. Jordan burgess looks at the questions surrounding the wreck. Students on that bus were only about 3 minutes from their high school here on a everyday when suddenly they took a hard hit from behind. Behind. I just heard a loud bang. Keith marler was used to the sounds of the bus outside his was different. Looked out my window and saw the car and
Education known as the art of driving. Brian thompson is a consultant and janene martin joins us. Thank you for having us. You founded art in memory of your 16yearold daughter, ashley who died in 2003. Tell us what happened to her. It was a sunny june afternoon, about 2 00, ashley was at home and she was returning to her high school. And she was on a road that she traveled every day, that she knew well. She was about three blocks from the home. And for some reason that were still not sure of, she overcorrected and when she overcorrected she put the car into a skid and she hit a tree and was killed instantly. The police feel that something or someone ran in front of her and caused her to make that sudden swerve. Ashleys crash and thats what i accidents, is very textbook. Majority of teen fatalities are what we call off the road. The teen will overcorrect, put the car into a skid and hit a hard object. And, again, ashley was only three blocks from the phone. No cell phone used. No other
Heres a look at a few other stories were tracking. Today. Parker 10 40 5410 41 10 im Parker Collins in the east part of the valley all morning we were pushed back here for forced their way inside and not only did they take things, but they attacked a man in the home. They think the man will be okay. Lesley stephanie more tension between republicans and democrats over Supreme Court. Left by the late antonin scalia. President obama confronted Republican Senate leaders for the first time today over their insistence that no Supreme Court nominee will be considered this year. Republicans say they want the voters to have a voice in that decision. But Senate Minority leader harry reid says the democrats wont give up. sen. Harry Reid D Nevada never in the history of the country has anything like this happened, where they wont meet with a person. They simply wont hold hearings. They wont nominate. And were going to continue beating the drums. All we want them to do is fulfill their constitution