These stories every year and this is one thats recent. So you know i just ran into drew whittenburg whos here and he always brings me these bright Young Students from tipp city. And its such a pleasure to meet them. Theyre so inspiring to be here. And it reminded me of a story when i when devil grove first came out about ten years ago, i got a letter or email from a young law student at northwestern, and she wrote me this beautiful. She said, gilbert, after reading your book, ive decided what i want to do. I want to be a public defender in the spirit of, you know, Thurgood Marshall. And i said, thats beautiful and stayed in touch with her a little bit. And she said she moved down to florida. She got a as a public defender in west palm beach. Her name was claire. And, you know, she would keep me updated. Her progress and the cases that she was on and a of years later, she started to really rise up in the office and she said, you know what, i want to give you an award. Its called the gid
Now the good part starts. Lets begin to talk about something before we start the id like to talk about something thats inspiration on and i have these stories every year and this is one thats recent. So you know i just ran into drew whittenburg whos here and he always brings me these bright Young Students from tipp city. And its such a pleasure to meet them. Theyre so inspiring to be here. And it reminded me of a story when i when devil grove first came out about ten years ago, i got a letter or email from a young law student at northwestern, and she wrote me this beautiful. She said, gilbert, after reading your book, ive decided what i want to do. I want to be a public defender in the spirit of, you know, Thurgood Marshall. And i said, thats beautiful and stayed in touch with her a little bit. And she said she moved down to florida. She got a as a public defender in west palm beach. Her name was claire. And, you know, she would keep me updated. Her progress and the cases that she was
Find seats and we will try to get started here. My name is ed howard. I am with the alliance for Health Reform. I want to welcome you on behalf of the board of directors. I want to welcome you to the program on health and housing with an emphasis on the relationship between medicaid policy at the Community Level at the state level and the federal level as well. This is actually a first in a threepart series and we will explore the intersection of social policy over the next couple months. In october, i believe its october 9, you will be looking at how well Health Services correlate with nonmedical home and unity based services. Then in december we will examine some of the emerging issues in connection between health and incarceration, which is is a growing area of concern and activity. There is a connection between health and various determinants and we will look at the strength of that connection during this briefing and the subsequent ones in the theory. You may have seen yesterday t
Its effectively dead and there are brill limits to what can be done in the political process. The second proposition is the opportunities are opening for free creating some of the best qualities of the american project so let a just say by american project them referring to the idea that came with the founders that individuals and Families Communities can be left free to live their lives as they see fit in the role of the government is to provide a peaceful setting for that endeavor but otherwise standing aside. You are not going to have a Constitutional Convention and you are not going to reverse held in v. Davis or anything else but that is essentially that they option of rolling back the federal governments power host want to jump right in and you mentioned helvering. Your book is fraught with Many Supreme Court cases and if he can footnote them for myself and our viewers. We are not all constitutional lawyers but you play one on tv. When you say that these things are set in stone,
Universities studio and directed creative writing programs for incarcerated youth and at a federal prison for women outside of phoenix. She has also raised her family here. As a matter of fact her daughter was once a junior staffer in our kids section. She was the darling of the kids not only for her love of looks but also for her personal winning smile much like her mothers. So you can see susan and her family have been one of our regular patrons and readers for many years now and one of our dearest friends. So for many years we have known about the book she has been working on diligently quietly. The topic is so big and important yet sensitive and heavy hearted and off that it had not been properly dealt with until now upon the 70th Year Anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on sunday. The story had been untold. In nagasaki life after nuclear war Susan Southard takes readers from the bombing to today five survivors all of whom were teenagers at the time of the bombing. The b