Daily Washington Journal Programs or through our social media feeds. Americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Peter representative Yvette Clarke is a democrat from new york. She is vice chair of the energy and Commerce Committees, and she is also cochair of the smart cities caucus. Shes our guest this week on the communicators. Congresswoman clarke, thank you. And i want to start with that smart cities caucus. First of all, what is it, and how do you envision smart cities . Rep. Clarke well, we decided to establish a bipartisan smart cities caucus. Originally, darrell issa was my cochair. Hes now a congresswoman from indiana. Peter susan brooks. Rep. Clarke susan brooks, exactly. And we knew that already technology is a major part of our lives. Its a utility that we can use to make sure we are economically feasible going into the future, that we are efficient in our use of energy, and it enables our society, i think,
That already technology is a major part of our lives. Its a utility we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible going into the future and that we are deficient in our use of energy and it enables our society to be far more productive than our 20th century Industrial Age so we are looking at the fact that so much of what already exists in society is connected and what are smart cities caucus does is it looks at four different areas of how communities are connected. One is connectivity and the other principal being sustainability and the other being mobility and then the workforce. How all of those components Work Together to make sure that in the 21st century our Civil Society is given the opportunity to reach its full potential utilizing the technological advantages that we have had in this age. Your first to it as a utility and do you see it as a utility like plumbing or electricity and streets . Guest it is something we use but its more an infrastructure. I think for ma
T america boom bust producer brant job or an r t america correspondent john hardy thank you guys for joining me thank you for the boom bust team for coming out and daniel i want to start mask you actually these big private equity firms like all the global new Media Investment group who are buying up all these local papers all around the country and then slashing and burning them essentially how are they making money off of these scorched earth tactics like why are they even getting involved what whats the prize for them right now its a familiar formula similar to the essentially the same playbook that we saw in the 1980 s. Where people and corporate raiders would find need to stress kompany you know raid it divest it and then just get rid of the body essentially when they were done draining the blood and thats essentially whats happening in a similar way with these newspapers corporate conglomerates like as you mentioned all the acquiring the denver post Gatehouse Media recently acquir
A big problem just dumping on baby does not mean that we need to eat the babies and this is the big. Patrick just starting with you we have about 20 seconds each are we going to see more and more this kind of opposition this resistance to something. I think that what we was devoid of all cost is supposed to rise to a debate about these issues we need to understand both so as of the view as dr spring with us just said but we also need to listen to farmers whose experience who direct experience involving in a Sustainable Way needs to be listened to more than it has been in the polls but no polarized nation and please this is too important and we must get over this computer which is widely held at the moment dr springman. You know i agree we need to talk to each other we need to be respectful with each other and this debate should surely be guided by science if it were to be guided by science you wouldnt have statements like we need to eat our own children i would say because there are go
Every factor of our lives and certainly those who practice in the law firm. Most of us have had to confront that. We also see in our lives historical challenges to our liberty in this country. As i have been going around this country talking to republican groups who feel disheartened with the level of autocracy that our government is imposing on us, one of the common themes that i like to use in my speeches is the word courage. Courage is something that is underestimated in our lives and it has caused me over the last couple of years to really think about what it means to demonstrate courage. Courage is demonstrated by lawyers who take on popular causes and during covid, many people in this room stepped up to go against the tide of what everyone in society was telling us and insist on our Constitutional Rights not being abridged by state and federal governments. There could be no better example of a lawyer who has exemplified courage in his daily life throughout his career in paul clem