And im a marketing director of the book stores. We have two become stored. Started in 1961 and in 2019 they became the first not for profit book stored Whose Mission is book selling. The kill tour mission work allows us to keep over 100,000 books on our shelfs and work live likemind cultural partner is leak the center for effective government. Testimony ices re vent is mold rated by Karen Tumulty. The winner for excellence in political reporting, joined the Washington Post in 2019 after with time. During her 15 years at time she wrote or coriot three dozen stores and helped with the white house correspondent, karen is on the board of institutes of politics at the university of chicago and hopes to create the university of texas and Harvard Business school and now turn it over to Karen Tumulty to introduce tonights authors. Good evening and duso much for being with us tonight. The only thing that makes me sad about this is i cant actually be at the university of chicago, which is a plac
6 00 a. M. The u. S. Along with five arab countries have begun air strikes against isis targets in syria. The strikes began last night in the northeastern part of the country as they come as president obama heads to new york for the opening of the United Nations general assembly. Three Afghan Military officers who went missing in massachusetts were found attempting to cross into canada. Officials were alerted by their dns about their disappearance when they did not return to a u. S. Training base in cape cod. They were among hundreds of soldiers in afghanistan taking part in training exercises at camp edwards. The Israeli Military has killed two palestinians suspected in the fatal abduction of three israeli teenagers last june. The men were killed in a shootout with Israeli Forces in the west bank on tuesday. The teens abduction in the west bank led to the recent war in gaza. Its getting worse and we need to do something about it. The World Health Organization has issue add new warning
Threequarters. Were looking at threequarters which is an improvement in tappahannock. So some patches of fog. As i said temps in the 50s and 60s with 67 in washington. But 61 in cambridge. We do have the 50s out toward the Shenandoah Valley. Look, harrisonburg our cool spot at 49. Andrea and mike, back to you. Heres whats in the news right now. U. S. Air force Officials Say isis militants are adjusting their strategies to deal with ongoing air strikes. Theyre dispersing themselves and traveling in smaller groups now. Meanwhile isis release add new propaganda video showing a british journalist reading a script criticizing the air strike. A sea of lights is coming from hong kong. Prodemocracy protesters are holding up their cell phones demanding the resignation of hong kongs chief executive. They want them to give up their veto power over choosing hong kongs next leader and allow full democratic elections. As least 56 people have been injured, 9 arrested 89 arrested sing the protests beg
Of Public Employee unions with university of Washington Labor studies director michael mccann. This event from january is hosted by town hall seattle. Its about an hour. [applause] thank you so much for coming out. Ive been really looking forward to this having read daniels book and whether you agree with it or not, he presents some really interesting arguments that were going to get a chance to get into here. Of our format this evening is going to be fairly simple. Theyll be ten minutes, first from daniel the guy with the tie and how many people are related to michael by the way . He said he had some relatives here. [laughter] so therell be ten minutes from daniel, ten minutes from michael, then five minutes each sort of to respond to one another x then im going to take the moderators prerogative to ask 15 minutes of questions of my own roughly and then youll have a chance to come to the microphones to ask your open questions. This is being recorded by cspan for possible broad and by
So, yes, there may be some people who want to stop these changes or at least argue for them to happen somewhere else, perhaps away from their backyard. But let he tell you this let me tell you this, we have a plan for the long term, and we will stick to the task. Finally, everyone knows that we need a bigger and more prosperous private sector to generate wealth and to pay for the Public Services that we need. That means we need to support, reward and celebrate enterprise. That requires a fundamental change of culture in our country, a culture thats on the side of those who work hard, that values typically british entrepreneurial buccaneering spirit and that rewards people with the ambition to make things, sell things and create jobs for others up and down the country. And that is what this government is on a mission to bring about. We want to make britain the best place in europe to start, to finance and to grow a business. So as the lord mayor said, we are Cutting Corporation tax to 2