Intervals and then there will be 15 minutes for all of you to ask any questions that you may have of them. The first panelist is dr. Thomas g. Burton, he is a Professor Emeritus of english at east Tennessee State university. He has produced three documentaries on sir spent handling and is the author of serpent handling believers, the serpent and the spirit, and Beach Mountain man, the memoirs of rhonda helix, his most recent book, voices worth the listening, three women of appalachia, is out now from Mercury University press. Please join me in welcoming tornado thomas burt dr. Thomas burton. The next person i would like to introduce is sarah smarsh. She is a kansasbased journalist who has reported for the New York Times, the guardian and other approximations. Per book pout working hard and being broke in the richest country on earth, very relatable title, let me tell you, what finalist for the National Book award, 2018 Research Fellow at Harvard Universitys center on media politics and
Www. Sftv. Gov. To participate by phone you can callin and use the access code 148 9208779. Someone is making background noise. Members of the public will have an opportunity to participate during Public Comment. The public is asked to wait for an agenda item before making a comment on that item. Comments will be addressed in the order received. When taking public commit members can press star 3 and you will be queued. Callers will hear silence. They will have the standard 3 minutes to provide Public Comment. Make sure you are in a quiet location, speak clearly, and turn off any tvs or read yos around you. Item one, roll call. [clerk reads names of senators in attendance] [clerk reads names of members in attendance] general comment. Members may address the members for three minutes. Speaker shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual personnel. They cannot enter into debate with the speaker. The lack of response doesnt constitute agreement with or suppo
You may watch live at www. Sftv. Gov. To participate by phone you can callin and use the access code 148 9208779. Someone is making background noise. Members of the public will have an opportunity to participate during Public Comment. The public is asked to wait for an agenda item before making a comment on that item. Comments will be addressed in the order received. When taking public commit members can press star 3 and you will be queued. Callers will hear silence. They will have the standard 3 minutes to provide Public Comment. Make sure you are in a quiet location speak clearly, and turn off any tvs or read yos around you. Item one, roll call. [clerk reads names of senators in attendance] [clerk reads names of members in attendance] general comment. Members may address the members for three minutes. Speaker shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual personnel. They cannot enter into debate with the speaker. The lack of response doesnt constitute ag
Politicians as we travel the nation in search of their stories. Coming up first. U. S. Congressman and senator, former wisconsin senator, and i20 for Progressive Party william bob elephant. It is a glorious service. The call comes to every citizen. It is an unending struggle to make and keep government representative. Bob lafollett is probably the most important political figure in Wisconsin History and one of the most important in the history of the 20th century of the United States. He was a reforming governor. He defined what,. Senator who is ready nice by his peers in the 1950s as one of the five greatest senators in american history. He was an opponent of world war i, stood his ground advocating for free speech. Above all Bob Lafollett was about the people. After the civil war america changed radically from a nation of Small Farmers and small producers and small manufacturers and by the 1870s and 1880s, 1890s we had concentrations of wealth. We had growing inequality had we had co
Charged until june 4 of this year. While the City Attorneys Office was building the case against mr. Hernandez, a contractor number two or three in the complaint. It did not have the facts by that day. Incredibly, in may 28, 2020, works submitted a bid to be a subcontractor for a new project for the city a new multimillion dollar contract. They did this knowing the fbi had evidence mr. Hernandez bribed city officials. The public, city officials and reporters rightfully asked. How can an indated contractor seek new work with the city . In that case the charging documents had admissions the fbi called as lies. Such as that mr. Hernandez said he only gave 20,000 worth of goods and services. He die understood several hundred thousand worth of services for a vacation home. We were able to use the admission of 20,000 and not sufficient to have him charged with a crime to seek de barment. If that were not in there, in the charging documents we would not have been able to prevent the works fro