million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the summer travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary we ll be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park service experiences and we want to hear from you. our phone lines are open at 202-748-8000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 202-748-8001. what had been your experience at national parks across the country, including a new one designated this week in the state of maine. you can also send us a tweet at spambingswj or join us on facebook.com/c-span. good thursday. thanks very much for being with us. if you pick up today s wall street journal or washington post, two editorials commemorating the national park service including this from terry anderson. happy 100th birthday national parks and jonathan janis writing these lands are your lands, america. read them online at wsj.com. some background on the national park service. it was signed into law on this date by president wo
and let s be uncomfortable. next year, more victories. because animal rights happen if hard. and we try so please do everything you can possibly think of to do all the time. thank you very, very much. [cheers and applause] announcer: tomorrow night on c-span, talking about islam and the misperception westerners have about the religion by sharing her own experience of getting to know a muslim cleric and his family. she writes about in her book if the oceans were ink. islam get more than its share of negativity in the united states? you write about that from your standpoint. yes. i mean, i think the sad thing is andre you and i are in event-driven business and being the violent extremists have figured out a way to insert themselves into the headlines and the vast majority of the rest of the 1.6 muslims in the world have not. it is depressing but the old saying, if it bleeds it leads is true for all groups. not tooy, there are many counter narratives that make it into the
into its operations. then the anniversary of the magna carta. later, donald trump joins joni ernst at an event in iowa as it could be to veterans. host: good morning. a live look at the lincoln memorial and the mall in washington, d.c. with the washington monument in the foreground and the u.s. capitol on this thursday, august 25. today marking a centennial anniversary. it was on this date 100 years ago president woodrow wilson signing a bill that created the national park service. today an estimated 20,000 employees, more than 200,000 volunteers, staffing america s 413 national parks, memorials, battlefields and historic sites. and last year alone, nearly 310 million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the summer travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary we ll be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park service experiences and we want to hear from you. our phone lines are open at 202-748-8000 for those in the central and eastern
A representative from the court-appointed receiver's office said some system improvements have been implemented, but long-term stability for Big Basin Water Co. is still an open question even after the water provider, with help from the county, won more than $1 million in grant funding from local, state and federal authorities since November.
With 4Leaf's contract set to sunset in June, the $600,000 extension will allow the one-stop-shop services offered through the county's Recovery Permit Center to continue through Dec. 31 while county planners move toward a more integrated model.