Lies of the land seeing Rural America for what it is and isnt is your book. The opening line in the book is the lies about Rural America is preposterous on its face. What you mean by that . Steven i mean that we use rural to describe vastly different parts of the country. There is no really good definition of it. Rural america turns out to be a remarkably diverse label to cover all kinds of different areas of the country. The greenbelt in the great plains, areas of northern maine, parts of appalachia which were once cold country, we are talking about vast parts of the American Southwest, they all get labeled rural but they are dramatically different in all kinds of ways. How do you define it for the purpose of your book . Steven i very studiously avoid trying to define it. [laughter] one of the things i found interesting when i jumped into the project was that lots of people have been trying to define the term for a long time and no one has come up with a real answer. I think at the en
Lies of the land seeing Rural America for what it is and isnt is your book. The opening line in the book is the lies about Rural America is preposterous on its face. What you mean by that . Steven i mean that we use rural to describe vastly different parts of the country. There is no really good definition of it. Rural america turns out to be a remarkably diverse label to cover all kinds of different areas of the country. The greenbelt in the great plains, areas of northern maine, parts of appalachia which were once cold country, we are talking about vast parts of the American Southwest, they all get labeled rural but they are dramatically different in all kinds of ways. How do you define it for the purpose of your book . Steven i very studiously avoid trying to define it. [laughter] one of the things i found interesting when i jumped into the project was that lots of people have been trying to define the term for a long time and no one has come up with a real answer. I think at the en
Role of ohio in the 2016 election. I have written a book with my colleagues called buckeye battleground. It is not technically outofprint but i think copies are hard to find by this point. Although you can always go to amazon and get a copy. We started with this idea, why is ohio a battleground state . If you have paid attention this year, you may have heard now and then someone saying that ohio will not be the decisive state in this election. Id like to have about what makes ohio a battleground state or not, and factors that will push the state one way or the other. Hopefully at the end i will give some perspective of where the future lies with regard to ohio politics. Let me get started here. St i want to i understand i want to identify four specific factors that are true in any election and any context. I am a social scientist so i am interested in looking at social human phenomena, seeing what factors we can identify that seem to cause outcomes to occur in multiple environments. Th
Child left behind, you and senator murray, the democrat, the top democrat on the committee from washington state, formed what seem to be a very good working relationship at the committee. And im wondering what you think your next project is going to be and if there is a project you think you can ask like it done in 2016 despite it being a president ial election year. Ms. Swain they still pay mr. Alexander they still pay our salaries next are, so i dont think we should take the year off. And you are right about senator murray, she is a terrific senator. But she understands what ,enators need to understand which is that all you want to do is make a speech, you can get your own radio show and do that. When you come to the senate, you should try to get a result. And she is very result oriented. It was because of that relationship that we were able to get something done. Number one, what we want to turn our attention to next is what we call our innovation bill could hardly get treatment inn
Bush campaigns this weekend in New Hampshire, and at 8 00 on Craig Shirley former out his book on president ronald reagan. Our guests this week are Tennessee Republican senator Lamar Alexander. He was elected to his third term n the senate and took over the gavel of the socalled health committee, which is health, education, labor and pension. In your first deal with the devil, oversaw the rewrite of which child left behind, it had been 13 years since it was attended to. I want to tell our audience that perspective anis serving particular ly as the secretary of education, serving as the former president of the university of tennessee, so lots of experience in the field you brought to there. Thank you for being with us. Let me introduce our two reporters. Thank you for being here with us on newsmakers. Im wondering what you think your next project will be and get done hink you can in 2016, the project that you think youre right about senator murray. Shes very result oriented and i trust