Law and litigation for more than 28 years. Hes a former chair of the cincinnati bar associations environmental olaw committee and graduate of the new college of the ba at Ohio State University of law. Jd cum laude. Rob received the International Livelihood award commonly known as the nobel prize for his years of work on pfo a. Please give a warm savanna welcome to rob billott. [applause] good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me here. With t to thank everyone the book festival. This is really an amazing event and im honored to be here. Its moving for me to be part of this group and looking through all the otherfolks that are here you are wondering this guy is a lawyer. Whats going onhere . And thats what i want to talk about today is why i ended up writing this oobook exposure and whats the story about and why i believe its an important story forall of us. You know, i think most of the people in this room have probably heard of flint michigan and the lead crisis, right . Im curio
Eeked out a two basis point gain but it could have been worse and it should have been worse and was at one point in the day very ugly but the nasdaq rallied in the close taking the market with it. I kept from the very beginning, from the opening bell, where are the sellers. Where are they why arent they reacting to that ugly warning that we got monday from apple why is everything no matter how negative treated as a buying opportunity. It is like there is always something to be said for instead of and i think i know the answer. I think it is the index funds. 60 is coming in via index funds and they buy everything, including the stocks that should be getting hammered by bad news. And they buy in waves and they are in control of this stock market not mutual fund or Hedge Fund Managers either. Yes, index fund buyers i know people call this market a bubble and blame an easy fed but maybe, just maybe, listen to me, there is no one toblame. You simply have Many Companies doing well and compan
Bret alive look at the u. S. Capitol a beautiful evening in washington as we are Just Moments Away from President Biden and tonights state of the Union Address, good evening from washington i am bret baier. Martha i am Martha Maccallum in moments we will be on the house floor from the familiar call of the sergeant at arms will make his way down the aisle greeted by lawmakers along the way. Bret you can see mitt romney talking to joe mansion it seems like they are pretty engaged in some conversation that can happen on the sidelines as you have a lot of lawmakers waiting a long time in the chamber, a lot of folks expressing themselves, different ways, republican some of them wearing buttons about the border, others dressed in white on the democratic side in solidarity, we set the stage now with White House Correspondent with a preview of the president s speech good evening. Good evening officials at the white house think that most people who will watch it tonight have not been very polit
Warning in the dobbs decision, right, from the dissenters from the liberal justices. They said, look, this is a slippery slope. Republicans dispute this. Of course, we should note. But there are they do legislators here and there who have i mean, when you believe that fertilization that that life begins at conception, that there are some consequences there. And when you start to talk about the technologies, i mean, its entirely, you know, were seeing unintended consequences. Lets just put it that way. Just to note, i mean, how important this issue is, dozens of democrats have brought guests related to ivf and including The First Lady, including The First Lady. So thats another way that they show, you know, their priorities for this address. Thats from what weve gathered from the president s excerpts of his speech. Its going to be a big part of his remarks. Its also the most i mean, maybe second to democracy, if youre talking about base democratic voters, probably the most important iss
I remember it being so unbelievable, that a plane has landed in our families like. A couple of young people on. Were trying to locate with fish finders. They found it, and her. She was a pretty girl. Some of her long hair was caught in the door. She looked like she was actually sleeping. But where was the pilot . They were pretty sure he was heading to mexico. I can remember getting calls to interpol even. 24 years later, a woman uncovers a little white lie. He said that he was actually 43. I was like, so what else have you lied to me about . Was he a monster . Was he romeo . You just dont know. And those are the best stories, arent they . Now, we hear his version of the story. Youre the only person on the planet who knows the truth. It is, in its own strange way, a dissertation on love. Love, intoxicating, impetuous, foolish. Love that lives, like a fugitive. A long Secret Tunnel of regret. Theres a reason that the story of Romeo And Juliet, has held up over centuries. Or maybe, could