About her book drinking in america our secret history. This was held at politics and pros bookstore in washington, d. C. We are so honored tonight to welcome susan cheever, best selling and highly esteemed memoirist, biographer and novelist as she launches her newest book drinking in america our secret history. You will tell us the secrets. Her distinguished bibliography includes the 2015 biography of e. E. Cummings, which was chosen by the economist as one of the best books of that year. It is now considered the definitive biography of that iconic poet. Other biographical works include american bloomsbury and my name is bill, bill wilson, his life and the creation of alcoholics amon mounonymouanonye before dark and treetops, a memoir. Shes the author of five novels and a frequent contributor of essays and articles to leading publications. She is influential as a member of the corporation of yado and of the Authors Guild counsel and is a faculty member at the b benni Bennington College
Director of the documentary. He is the author of to swing through the sky a musical theater piece about the twin histories of jazz and powered flight. He was a longtime member of the wright experience team and was executive director of the discovery flight foundation. Paul is a graduate of Washington University in st. Louis with a degree in visual arts. In addition to aviation history and documentary film making, his career covers classical drawing, s. T. E. M. Education, exhibit design and photography. With that, id like to turn the stage over to paul and thank you all again so much for coming tonight. [ applause ] hello. Thank you so much for having me. Can everybody see me okay . Hear me okay . Great. Great. Let me make sure i turn this thing on correctly. Okay. Thank you, kathy, and to everyone at Smithsonian Associates for having me back. Im very happy to be here. Again, and share this story with you. Its, i think, a its a really fun story in a local kind of a way. Its a story of
At least they are willing to replace some of the faucets and drinking fountains here. As a matter of fact, they are replacing at least 69, in 69 schools more than 580 of those samples of more than 5,000 came back with above levels of the 15 parts per billion. Cmsd says the blood levels in a student will lower their childs i. D. And ability to pay attention. Th kitchens, nurseses of os, and teachers lounges as well. On the website, the district says it will remove or replace the fixtures inside the restaurants or rest rooms and faucets and outside spigots as well and they have installed water coolers in the districts that were most affected. So they are trying to mitigate the lead levels here. The state is going to pay them 15,000 maximum per building to lead in the schools. Well have much more on this as the day progresses. Live outside of Wilber Wright elementary school. As you can see from the video, its a Beautiful Day outside and you want to soak it up because the weekend, yeah, is
Dressed in a full marine uniform when he doust himself on gas and set himself on fire outside a coffee shop. Bob jones is where it happened temperature the veteran is still in the hospital getting treatment for serious burns. 69 years old and he remains in the Burns Institute at akron hospital. He set himself on fire on west market saturday morning. Before that, he caused some concern and worrisome customers inside this coffee shop. It was just shock. Surveillance video from angel falls coffee shows the vietnam veteran dressed in a marines corp union trying to get into a political conversation with customers. The owner of the coffee shop toll me the vet wanted to know who organized recent protests against donald trump. Against trump. And he talked to my customers about how people needed to protest more against trump. When no one engaged in a conversation, the veteran left a shop and handed his cell phone to a stranger and toll him to record a video and what happened next was horrifying
Commerce Committee Representative joe barton a republican of texas. Congressman barton a lot of proposals are coming out now not from the fcc yet but for members of congress in different groups about how to treat Net Neutrality. Your colleague henry waxman recently wrote to the fcc asking it to be reclassified as title ii. What is your reaction to back . Guest i respect henry a lot obviously but he is wrong. You are trying to use an old law passed back in the 1930s for an industry in the 21st century. Its been proven over and over again that the best solution to allocation issues and usage issues is an open transparent market with appropriate oversight by the federal and in some cases state and local government. We have a booming internet. We have a booming telecommunication system and by and large its because for the last 20 Years Congress and various president s have adopted more and more open marketbased policies towards telecommunications. For henry or the fcc to try to use and alm