Across the united states. You know, city leaders, whether you are in a city, town or village are uniquely situated. What do i mean by that . In the state of the union you have National Media do you have congress and its all about trying to score partisan points. But, in the state of the city its really talking to constituents, connecting with them about what youve done and about what you are going to do. I will tell you another place where we are uniquely situated. We see our constituents every day in Grocery Stores and in our places of worship and in everyday areas like the ywca and sometimes they just show up at city hall, whether they have an appointment or not because they want to talk to the mayor. Guess what . We talked because that is what mayors and what city leaders do. This year i gave my eight state of the city address. I will tell you, we have gone to doing this as a ted talk because quite honestly it got so long and i got so tired of reading it and they got tired of hearin
This is about an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning and welcome to the National League of cities. It is my distinct honor to bring you greetings on behalf of the board and the staff of the National League of cities. We are excited about this presentation this morning, as we discuss the state of cities across the united states. You know, city leaders, whether you are in a city, town or village are uniquely situated. What do i mean by that . In the state of the union you have National Media do you have congress and its all about trying to score partisan points. But, in the state of the city its really talking to constituents, connecting with them about what youve done and about what you are going to do. I will tell you another place where we are uniquely situated. We see our constituents every day in Grocery Stores and in our places of worship and in everyday areas like the ywca and sometimes they just show up at city hall, whether they have an appointment or not because they want to talk
Also we will come after you and find you. U. S. Special forces kill isis top leader in a Nighttime Raid in syria. It raises the question just how strong is isis today . How much of a threat does it pose . Fawaz gerges will join me. Finally, from cars to milk to housing and more, we are paying more than we were a year ago for so many items. Inflation is to blame for certain, but just how bad is it . I will do a deep dive that might surprise you. But first, here is my take. Its a tale of two olympics. Remember the 2008 beijing games . China was dazzling the world with its economic prowess and technological sophistication, determined to impress the world with its soft power. Praise filled the headlines in countries like australia, the United Kingdom and the u. S. The Sydney Morning Herald said that the Opening Ceremony was a perfect ten. Londons Evening Standard described the event as the beginning of chinas new era of greatness, witnessed and implicitly approved by much of the leadership
Also we will come after you and find you. U. S. Special forces kill isis top leader in a Nighttime Raid in syria. It raises the question just how strong is isis today . How much of a threat does it pose . Fawaz gerges will join me. Finally, from cars to milk to housing and more, we are paying more than we were a year ago for so many items. Inflation is to blame for certain, but just how bad is it . I will do a deep dive that might surprise you. But first, here is my take. Its a tale of two olympics. Remember the 2008 beijing games . China was dazzling the world with its economic prowess and technological sophistication, determined to impress the world with its soft power. Praise filled the headlines in countries like australia, the United Kingdom and the u. S. The Sydney Morning Herald said that the Opening Ceremony was a perfect ten. Londons Evening Standard described the event as the beginning of chinas new era of greatness, witnessed and implicitly approved by much of the leadership
Historical park and its about an hour and 10 minutes. Noah there are some odd themes going on here. Want to knowledge, i agree with him to a great degree. I will note that for this writer, there was a case where i think to tell an important story, you find yourself moving into realms of speculation where the evidence may not exist, but the suggestion of what has happened seems reasonably solid. A lot of what i am going to be talking about is the process of this book. All of you have seen the dvds with the special features section, and i guess this is the making of this book. For me, it took me into areas i had never gone before in terms of having to handle material. All the battle books ive read the information, a value weight the nature of sources, try to piece it together in a way that made sense, both in terms of the topography, what we knew, and what they were saying. Out of that comes the story. This particular story, the 16 days in march and april of 1865 that Abraham Lincoln spe