Thank you, so much. I just wanted to welcome everybody to todays meeting. I want to extend my appreciation to uesf and president and her team. Dr. Matthews team with him and all those that supported the mou that well be voting on later today. I know it wases a lot o it was d i wanted to express my gratitude moving forward. The first item is approval of the board minutes for the meeting of july 2020. I need a motion and a second. roll call thank you. Thats five ayes. Thank you. First and foremost i want to welcome everyone back. We are so close to the start of the school year which is next monday august 17th. Our Student Learning will begin for the 2020, 2021 school year. You should know that our School Staff Members are working extremely hard preparing to welcome our students on monday. This past monday was the fifth annual Digital District day. This year was all online. There was overwhelming consent. When we needed to close registration on sunday night. Those that participated, it wa
Opportunity. You may or may not know that tulsa is one of six chapters throughout the country to host a pen america chapter, we have pen america tulsa, im really proud to say im the leader of that group and its been a relationship that just gets better and better. We had the opportunity to do several events with pen, probably even prior to our affiliation as an actual chapter. It really started laying the groundwork for this relationship moving forward. Its something that if you dont know the work that penn does, its a very inextricably linked to what we are talking about tonight in many ways. Pen is an organization that advocates for authors, for freedom of the press, for all kinds of important things that are tied to the mission we have through magic city books and the tulsa literary coalition. If you dont know their work i would invite you to go to pen. Org and see every thing they are doing. There is so much going on with limitations to press freedoms, every day something is happen
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Presented in your new book . Guest thanks for inviting me to come on with you and im looking forward to this conversation and as you know ive been an admirer of your work on executive privilege and this would be fun. I started out wary of President Trump and i was not a supporter of his in the 2016 election and what worried me was that he was a populist and a constitution seemed designed to stop populists. Its fairly antidemocratic in nature, in a lot of ways, like the senate and the judicial review and the Electoral College and the presence of the states as important part of the constitution so i was worried when trump came in as a populist who wants to achieve and agenda that he feels he received and he would strain against and go beyond the constitutional restraints on his power and i was worried at the beginning he was doing that and things like the travel ban, threats to build a border wall without congressional approval and in that early piece i urged them to try to use as presid
Six chapters that the country to host a pin america chapter, we opinion america tulsa and im really proud to say im the leader of the group and its been a relationship that gets better and better. Weve had the opportunity to do several event with pin and prior to affiliation as an actual chapter and started laying the groundwork for this relationship moving forward and its something if you dont know the work that they do, its been veranamazing organization advocs for authors and freedom of the press and all kinds of important things in the mission that we have with the Tulsa Literary Coalition and it is a membership driven program and organization and i would invite you to go to pen. Org and see everything that they are doing especially right now. There is so much going on with limitations to press freedoms, everyday something is happening that we didnt probably know about in the work that is happening. We have a special membership promo and if you go to the website you can use the cod