Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. Did your reading help you in your work as a congressman . It does. History in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress they sort of think history begins with them, but youre really stepping into the flow and if you read particularly contemporary history, a lot of intere
Them and she had and how do we fight this sort of forces that fight and can some ways selfishness or selfjustification and societally how do we stop this inventing in our schools and education . This is the institution which record providing the american dream, the only semifunctional one. I wonder to what extent we reduce the problem to how we make the schools better. Why . The answer comes back to kids. When you see Public School students, you understand they are being largely deprived of opportunities that should be theirs. Those schools need attention. They need funding. They need political will and people to come teach even if they dont teach all that well. For a time. I think we are about out of time. Thank you all for coming and for participating. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] congressman said break away the recommendations for books on your website . Ive always been a big part of my life and i was actually a pretty Smart Communications is idea b
With layers and by lunchtime and this afternoon, outer layers peel away. Upper 60s at 2 00, near 70. 7 00, we cool off. Boat commutes are dry, loaded with sunshine. Christa good news, as far as the traffic goes, rich kirkland is with us. Rich good morning. Yeah, its good news here. Were live on route 93, a lot of work happening around and about but not 93. Thats wide open all the way downtown. The expressway northbound, theyre clearing out a work crew near the oneill tunnel. That should be cleared soon. Theyre working inside the ted williams tunnel eastbound causing delays. Not much happening on the turnpike. You see that live. Overnight work crews on 128 northbound in lexington by route 2a picking up as well. The t says on time. Rich kirkland, 7 news today in new england. Christa the u. S. Coast guard is focused on searching for survivors of that cargo ship officials believe the el faro sank after vanishing near the bahamas as Hurricane Joaquin raged overhead. Among the 33 people onbo
The leadup to the filing of the action including prior litigation in the 2011 reauthorization of the Voting Rights act. He will also discuss recent change in several states texas, North Carolina, ohio, wisconsin and how and whether preclearance would have affected implementation of these laws. After he speaks, dan will provide more about the process. The context with the case including Voting Rights act preclearance was and wasnt doing, he will also discuss what has happened since 2013 including new tate laws and practices and litigation challenges that under the constitution in section 2 of the Voting Rights act. With that ill hand it over to brendan. Thanks, chad for, for inviting me to participate in the panel. I want to start by saying im here to give my perspective as someone who participated in the actual litigation of the case and to provide that unique perspective for you all to hear. Basically the backdrop of all of this is here in the United States we have dual regulation of
Disinvited from Graduation Ceremony Office Student protest. This is an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome to the city club of cleveland. My name is paul harrison. Im pleased to introduce todays speaker, president and cofounder of the American Council of trustees and alumni. As stated on its website, acta is on Academic Freedom, the website states that the ideas of Academic Freedom and free speech are at the core of academic speech. And freedom in research is essential to the advancement of truth. Todays forum offers a wonderful opportunity to juxtapose freedom of speech and Academic Freedom and just a moment to reflect on our 102year history at the city club of cleveland. We proudly refer to the city club as in 1923, the city club invited famous labor leader, socialist and perennial president ial candidate eugene deps to speak and he accepted. Asking mr. Depps to speak, caused ultimately mr. Depps determined to decline the invitation and he wrote that he was feeling disinclined to intru