Boulevard, where we are now, it was coming down a few minutes ago. We just passed the heaviest. It caused ponding on some of the roads. A little slip and slide out there all ready up and down wilkinson. This is now 277. The next couple days, well add more rain to this and well have a Severe Weather threat and a flooding threat. Meteorologist john ahrens, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Remember you can track the rain in your neighborhood right alongside our team of meteorologists by going to wsoctv. Com, scroll over weather and click on our interactive radar. Back to live pictures from inside the Government Center in uptown charlotte. Rows of people packed in here at the City Council Chambers to sound off on the controversial ordinance to ban discrimination in businesses and Public Restrooms for the lgbt community. Governor pat mccrory promised vote to approve the changes tonight. Blake hanson is live just outside the Meeting Place with more on the potential battle now brewing between charl
[general chatter] [laughter] democratic president ial candidate hillary clinton. You can find her remarks in our video library. It look at tweets from some of the republican president ial candidates. Dr. Ben carson said he had a great time at blakes Family Restaurant in manchester, new hampshire. Ted cruz will be in iowa fundraising for the Republican Party appearing with steve king. Today in washington dc, a discussion on oil prices and their impact on racking. That will be hosted by the Atlantic Council. We will have that live at 3 00 eastern time. The u. S. Senate is meeting this afternoon. The house returns tomorrow. We spoke this morning with a capitol Hill Reporter to get a look at the week ahead in congress. Their district work period. What is on tap for today and the rest of the week . Guest a big issue in the senate this week is going to be trade. All eyes are on president obama. One of his Top Priorities for a second term is to get some of these International Trade deals done
Political points might not be as critical as it has been. As the political Balance Sheet begins to shift may be ever so gradually in favor of other things than scoring political points, it might even go in the direction of showing that you can govern or get things done. In effect, in this formulation compromise and consensus building can become on some issues political benefits for the Majority Party and maybe for more than that. I will stop right there. I just want to say that i thank you again for the opportunity to the bpc and the political scientists in the Washington Area to talk about the print. We appreciate the publicity that it is getting at events like this. John great. We are going to stay here in our chairs. I will turn to sarah binder. They have comments about the print. Colleen and john noted that it has 29 essays. They are going to go through them one by 1 no. [laughter] they are not going to go through them. They will pick topics of interest. We have it well set up to h
That summer was an incredible summer. The summer of 1964. In those days, most senators didnt have a huge internship program. I was the only intern in the office. My boss was deeply involved in that, as was ted. It was an incredible time to be in washington, but i had been there the summer of the year before on the house side. Got to be at the Martin Luther kings i have a dream speech. I did not hear a word of it. There was a mass of humanity all the way down to the lincoln memorial. Then the next summer, breaking the filibuster on the civil rights bill and it passed. Next summer, i didnt have a job but i went back to visit my friends. And i just happened to hit it on the perfect day. I was sitting in the outer office hoping senator cooper would talk to me for a few minutes. He walked out, grabbed my arm and said i will take you to the capital to see something important. It turned out, that was the day that lbj signed the Voting Rights act of 1965. There i was, not exactly up front, bac
von https://de.internationalism.org Nach einer Verzögerung, die viel länger war, als wir ursprünglich beabsichtigt hatten, nehmen wir den dritten Band der Reihe über den Kommunismus wieder auf. Erinnern wir uns kurz daran, dass der erste Band, der auch in englischer und französischer Sprache als gedrucktes Buch erschienen ist, damit begann, die Entwicklung des Konzepts des Kommunismus…