To you. I still see myself as a book critic. This book is gamma extension of that work but these days i feel like i am a political journalist and using books as a means to that kind of work. Or is that something you actually steered clear of it has to in some ways beyond just sympathy for so i hope that it will give me a better sense of the decisionmaking that goes into what a book covers and how many chapters. What is it that you do during the day then you read 150 books about the trump era it is a book about books like the book about coffee tables from seinfeld but i hope it simply uses books to try to understand a moment and get a snapshot of a moment so it could have been a lot of things. It could have been film, theater, fiction so its a book about this moment in america and civic life but what do you mean about the intellectual history . There are a lot of ways to imagine. It anticipated everything and ive done some of that myself, guilty but that isnt the kind of book i wanted t
We absolutely thrilled to meet so many colleagues wherever you might be. It took all team to get his hair, a team of colleagues representing more than 17 campuses. They and others are volunteering their time and energy during these days. We would normally ask them to stand and be recognized but alas thats not possible unless you want to do so from home, please do. As you see them convening sessions are helping various capacities in the conference, please take a moment to thank them for their work. I would also like to take a moment to recognize the enormous effort taken by our assistant director jennifer mckanry and also director of design Emily Goldstein are leading this years conference. Look at these amazing women, they are so talented and creative. I overcome with pride to know them and they get to work with them. Its incredible to see the creative touches to this years conference. We would like to personally thank the support of the university of missouri st. Louis leadership who
Maxine is blessing us spiritually today as if to fabulous books and who wrote a fabulous book. We are really excited to be focusing on something positive as we get closer and closer to an election part and as we get crazier and crazier locked inside of our homes. Loyalty exist to uplift. Minority voices, clear voices in our community and those we are honored your joining us tonight. Reclaiming her time, all things maxine water and the legend that is maxine. Reclaiming her time is funny. But it is also inspiring. Brings up a champion in the face of ridiculous injustice. Also, ridiculous injustice as our authors. We are honored to be joined today by Helena Andrews dyer a fulltime columnist at the Washington Post covering popular children culture in the capital, sometimes children. [laughter] i think its a misprint i think were at childrens childrens level, sorry well. [laughter] before joining the post helene it was a contribute editor at xo jane additional womens magazine founded by jan
Products pulled from the shelves turkey backs a boycott in retaliation for comments about islam. Donald trumps pick for the u. S. Supreme court has officially been confirmed as the countrys newest top judge. The nomination of any county indiana to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed. And hes on the ballots appointment was approved in a vote by the Republican Controlled Senate should not be sworn in at the white house the confirmation means the countrys highest court now has a conservative majority no nominee has ever been confirmed this close to a president ial election lets go to alan fischer whos live for us in washington d. C. The democrats really did not want this to happen but it didnt seem to matter what they tried the republicans were determined that this was going to go through. 30 days from her nomination until her confirmation not the fastest in Supreme Court history but very fast particularly when you add in to the fact that the ele
[please stand by] [please stand by] good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, october 19th, 2020. I am the chair of the Committee Supervisor peskin joined by Committee Member dean preston and soontobe joined by vicechair supervisor safai. Our court is miss erika major. Do you have any announcements, ms. Major . Due to the covid19 Health Emergency, and to protect Board Members the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through the conference and participate in the meeting to the same ex at the present time as if theres physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgot. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak.