Reserves so they can make a cash investment in a Capital Infrastructure to build a city hall or to do Something Like that and also to keep the bond rating agencies happy, to demonstrate that they are good stewards of the fiscal resources. So if you noticed the trend over time, it was much less than what we are now at about 22 of expenditures. Some 25 or 30 years ago it was much less. What cities have done over the last 25 and 30 years is theyve realized several things. One, that you cant predict the future as we all witnessed this last winter when salt reserves for at least the northern cities and some southern as well ran out very early and they had to dig into their reserves to buy more salt and snowplowing services. So preparing for these unexpected emergencies is one of the reasons that the reserves tend to grow over time. The other is that between the time that we started monitoring ending balances in the general fund to the present is that the federal government has become a much
Their leader does not resigned by tomorrow, they will start to occupy government buildings and other sites. So father is no side but no sign of either side backing down. China, for its part, calling the protest illegal. Many have the day off of work to mark chinas national day. Central hong kong turned into a sea of lights on wednesday night. It is another day in the fight for democracy for many here. There are the disappointing feelings of the hong kong people, the he cannot even have our basic human rights of voting for our leaders. Protesters ridiculed the celebrations for the China National holiday. They booed as helicopters flew past the chinese and hong kong flags. The symbolism of the day only toughened the result of the movement. Many demonstrated in silence to underscore their view that their demands for more democracy are falling on deaf ears. Police were out in force, but refrain from intervening. Official ceremonies took place far from the protest. The hong kong chief execu
Returning to the remote site where the german airliner crashed. Searchers have find the cockpit voice recorder from the german a320 plane. Authorities will want to know why the pilots made no distress call as the plane plunged from 38,000 feet. That is going to be the number one item. Why wasnt there any call . There were multiple radios on the airplane, multiple ways to communicate. Why wasnt there a message . They will be looking at that very closely to find out what was going on in the caulk it or around the cockpit at the time of the event. Olivia the searchers are still looking for the flight data recorder. The crash killed all 150 people on board. President obama is no delaying the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. The president backed off his plan to slash the number of u. S. Troops there this summer. 10,000 troops will stay in afghanistan until the end of this year. The president says the u. S. Mission is simple. President obama we want to make sure we are doing everything
For a complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfunction books and authors nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Youre watching booktv. Finish next, Abu Dhabibased journalist Hassan Hassan talking about the rise and leadership of isis in the middle east. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. I run the middle east program at the wilson center. We are very happy to have with us Hassan Hassan the author of coauthor of isis inside the army of terror. Hes based in abu dhabi, and i think hes here for a couple of days only, and we are very fortunate to host him as the First Institution in washington. And his book appeared on the New York Times bestseller list yesterday, it was number nine. I didnt check it this morning. And we decided and hassan is going to speak for 20 minutes and then we will open the floor to your questions. And were very happy to have with us jane harman the president and ceo of the wilson center, who is very much i
And also the spring also was contagious among kurds and a new party goran that means change in kurdish. They fareded very well in the kurdish elections so there is political in iraqi occur stan and power sharing. But also there will be a division. And systems of nepotism. Two sets of security forces. Two groups of peshmerga. And kurdistan democrat okayization is a work in progress. The fact that the kdp has consolidated under control and umbrella has been a positive contributor to the stability of iraq and occurred stack and there is an ongoing process underway. For kurds to articulate their desires for power sharing and for those to be reflected in the laws of eye rncy kurdistan and the quality of their political leadership. A lot of progress so far with more work to be done. A great time for one more question. With the eye rncy system. Yes. If you can please comment on the role that objection on mobile the oil company. Okay. Has had. Objection is not one of the number of large Oil Co