Im not sure i know this. Lauren a little girly for you. Stuart unwritten by natasha benefield. Stuart because the training, what does that have to do with it. Get me out of this, 10 00 oclock eastern were to go to the money the dow is up to 50, the nasdaq has turned south. The bottom righthand corner the dow 30, there is only three losers, 27 winners, three losers what a situation of the nasdaq is down the ten year treasury yield that was close to 4 408 as we speak up four basis points, the price of oil on the upside dragging gasoline prices up, 81 a barrel that is an elevated price, bitcoin not much actually 28981. That is the markets and now t this. I was up early sunday morning eager to see the u. S. Womens team in a vital world cup game with sweden. , from the start was embarrassment not the quality of play the politics, frankly it made me angry. Before the game the teams lined up for the National Anthem, the sweden went first, all smiles, all of them singing, the americans, six di
The National Governors association met this past weekend in washington d. C. For its annual winter meeting and focused on ways to combat childhood hunger and current initiatives at the state and local levels that have been successful atrophiedi feeding c at school. This is about an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, and i think we should get started. Its another important big day here at the nga and we have a lot of good work to do. Im dorothy mcauliffe, first lady of virginia and chair of the nga spouses leadership committee. And its my honor and great pleasure to welcome you all to this very special winter meeting, joint session for governors and for spouses. Today were talking about ending child hunger, improving lives and investing in americas future. I want to thank all the governors who are here this morning and their spouses and all the many Partner Organizations who are in attendance this morning. I will say its my understanding its been several years since
Along with 5 projectfunded inaudible this half million increase is offset by the mou adjustments and leaves the total annual budget amount unchanged. The next slide shows the breakdown of the fte count and to authorized funded positions, salary savings, and the total positions funded in the operating budget. Associated with the new request for these Services Installation is an additional project funded ftes to reduce overtime, increasing the authorized positions from 749 to 754 in the water, regional and end city, and the total has increased from 2,402 to 24407. The proposed budget dollars remain unchanged and unaffected by these budget counts. A little explanation to support the increase of the new Service Installation program. The new Services Installation budget request will allow the water enterprise to reduce backlog in two places, Water Pipeline main connections and for new Service Requests. Currently the backlog for new Service Requests is 4 months and we are hoping to reduce th
Yesterday insisting that no Colorado State resources could be used in any way to support that new Trump Administration family separation policy. So we broke the news of both of those aksz actions by the two different governors at this time last night and that is an interesting pair of actions. A democratic governor and a republican governor on the east coast, both of them popular governors, both of them ambitious and both deciding to take an additional step beyond just saying they disagreed with the policy of taking kids away from parents. They both decided on the same day that they needed to move on beyond just criticizing the policy to instead start taking actual overt action against it. Well, that was yesterday. With those two governors. Now today they apparently bust open the flood gates. Today the governor of new jersey phil murphy took the same action as the colorado governor and said no state resources will be used from new jersey to support the family separation policy in any w
Interesting pair of actions. A democratic governor and a republican governor on the east coast, both of them popular governors, both of them ambitious and both deciding to take an additional step beyond just saying they disagreed with the policy of taking kids away from parents. They both decided on the same day that they needed to move on beyond just criticizing the policy to instead start taking actual overt action against it. Well, that was yesterday. With those two governors. Now today they apparently bust open the flood gates. Today the governor of new jersey phil murphy took the same action as the colorado governor and said no state resources will be used from new jersey to support the family separation policy in any way. Then the governor of delaware, john carney announced, today we received a request to send Delaware National guard troops to the southwest border, under normal circumstances we wouldnt hesitate to answer the call but given what we know about the policies currentl