Sowers, haley at the night off. And more of the wet stuff on the way. Its been with us all weekend and it could stack up more rain as the days go by. Mike ben bennett is in to talkt it tonight. There are two sand bag fills locations opening back up as county officials urge residents to prepare for flooding its too late. More than a dozen people are looking for a place to live after fire ripped through an apartment building. One family is not sure where to turn. Things are getting back to normal here but they got pretty dicey here this afternoon. That is when fire broke out. A woman who lived in one of the malfunctioned and then so did her fire extinguisher. Thankfully she and her family got out and so did her neighbors. Firefighters were able to knock down the fire in a few minutes but had to keep putting out hot spots for some time. And now the tenants have to figure out how to move forward. She starts school in three days. You have people around here and its not just what happened it
This is about an hour. [applause] well, thanks so much to everybody for coming out. Let me say a few words about the book and its genesis. I lived in the middle east a lot in the 70s when i was just a kid, and i actually lived for a while off of Tahrir Square, the main drag, the main Center Square of cairo. I saw a round about. And many of the sort of important streets in cairo come down into it, and then you go off to the bridge from it and so forth. Be so its a little bit difficult to avoid that square. Its central to the citys traffic pattern. So having it occupied is rather a hassle for drivers. And the square was instituted, was designed and built way back in the middle of the 19th century by the thenruler in imitation of paris where he had studied and lived, the ruler, and in imitation of baron housemans reconfiguration of paris as a modern city. Were starting to get those french round abouts here in ann arbor now, i noticed. [laughter] were catching up now to baer baer on housem
The Class Society is immoral and unamerican and its hurting the way that we are setting up our country. So that was the Central Point that he was trying to make in the book. The book that hes coming apart in 2012 which didnt look at race at all if looked at only the differences only on one side which was white america. The reason he did that was to not look at race and to say we are organizing in a way that is leaving the bottom behind. We need to bring the fullness of American Society and opportunity. We need to do that more aggressively. Host numbers are on the screen if you want to talk to our guest. President of the American Enterprise institute and the author of these policy books. Who really cares, the surprising truth about the compassionate conservatism, it came out in 2006. Gross national happiness. Why happiness matters for america and how we can get more out of that came out in 2008. The battle how the fight between Big Government and Free Enterprise will shape americas futu
Greek and roman political ideas and why they matter. Were the greeks and romans successful politicians . Guest they were. The greeks managed in different citystates to develop the worlds first democracy. In athens they produced works of art, literature and great works of architecture and Political Institutions which remained fundamental to Politics Today and the romans for 500 years and that went down for another 500 years. Depending on your measure of success they have a lot to offer. Host what were the similarities . Guest interesting question. Really emphasized election and the fundamental role for the people in setting the terms of legitimacy so that in greek democracy is true in the the Roman Republic so for example in the Roman Republic know what could be passed without it being passed by a popular assembly. Talk about the influence of the elite in rome and the senate, that was significant but the senate couldnt pass laws. They could make it presentable and business and manage th
Competitiveness, Public Safety, successfully commercializing American Innovation globally, and much more. Thank you so very much for the opportunity to testify for you today and i would be happy to answer any questions. Mr. Malamud. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Ranking member and thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. Im the founder of public. Resource. Org, a nonprofit that which government databases that everybody agrees our public. On the internet and then works closely with government to help them improve their own operations. I am responsible for placing the fcc edgar and use patent databases on the internet for the first time. Public resource have put all the historical opinions of u. S. Court of appeals on the internet for the first time. We worked with Speaker Boehner and chairman issa to put a full archive of video from the House Oversight committee, and 14,000 hours of additional hearings online. I would like to highlight three key points. First, theres a f