Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac from the 30s who went around taking pictures of poor people. His papers are at the archives and now, the thing that upset me about that and i was at smu at the time, but the third two options, keep robert e. Lee, go to russell lee or the third option was to name the school after the first africanamerican woman teacher, africanamerican teacher, period, who actually was still alive, shes 84, and taught all three of my daughters in second grade. And i thought that was the obvious choice, right . But they wanted to cling to lee. They wanted the name. They couldnt give up the name for this living africanamerican woman who had spent 35 or 40 years teaching at that school and retired. And ill just say very quickly, the same thing happened with stone well Jackson School this year in dallas, just up the street from smu. They did the same thing. They had these community meetings. They yelled and screamed at each other.
Iowa. Governor branstad was recently nominated to be the next u. S. Ambassador to china. This is just over half an hour. Thank you 37 thank you. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. Speaker, madam speaker let me start over again here. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legislative leader, elected officials, distinguished guests, family, friends and fellow eye eyans. Im honored to address a joint session of the General Assembly delivering the condition of the state for the final time as your governor. For 22 years, i have addressed this body as governor and today i want to especially welcome the 22 new legislators who are with us from both sides of the aisle who were elected in november. Your constituents sent you to work hard, to work for them, and to help make iowa a better place. I hope youre filled with the same sense of excitement and eagerness i had when i first served in the legislature in 1973. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and i look forward to working with each
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. Speaker, madam speaker let me start over again here. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legislative leaders, legislators, judges, elected officials, distinguished guests, family, friends and fellow iowans. Im honored to address a joint session of the General Assembly delivering the condition of the state for the final time as your governor. For 22 years, i have addressed this body as governor and today i want to especially welcome the 22 new legislators who are with us from both sides of the aisle who were elected in november. Your constituents sent you to work hard, to work for them, and to help make iowa a better place. I hope youre filled with the same sense of excitement and eagerness i had when i first served in the legislature in 1973. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and i look forward to working with each of you and listening to your ideas on how to make our state an even better place for familie
[ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. Speaker, madam speaker let me start over again here. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legacy of leaders, legislators, justices and judges, elected officials and distinguished guests, family, friends and fellow iowans, im honored to once again address a joint session of the General Assembly delivering the condition of the state for the final time as your governor. For 22 years, i have addressed this body as governor and today i want to especially welcome the 22 new legislators who are with us from both sides of the aisle, who were elected in november. Your constituents sent you to work hard, to work for them and to help make iowa a better place. I hope youre filled with the same sense of excitement and eagerness i had when i first served in the legislator in 1973. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and i look forward to working with each of you and listening to your ideas on how to make our s
One business that closed one 2016 may not be reopening at all. And thats even though it was left untouched by flood waters. The city of cedar rapids and the best western Coopers Mill Hotel were talking about a possible buy out long before the flooding threat. City real estate manager rita rasmuseen says theyve been in talks with the Property Owners for about a year. The city had the Property Value assesesed and made a Purchase Agreement for more than 5 Million Dollars. Once they closed for the flooding it was decided to move forward with the sale. We have a signed Purchase Agreement from the Property Owner that will be presented on the City Council Agenda for october 11 recommended for approval and assuming thats approved we anticipate closing having them transfer title to the city hopefully by the end of the month. Month. If final approval is given by the city council the building will be torn down next spring. The citys Flood Control updates tuesday on flood protection near the 16th