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On March 11, 2025, the Ohio Senate Committee on General Government held a public hearing on two pieces of legislation sponsored by COS Action: its model Article V application for reining in federal power, as well as a 34|Ready bill that would set the legislature's rules for selecting and governing commissioners to an Article V convention. Sen. Michele Reynolds introduced the legislation and answers questions from the committee. Then, COS Senior Advisor Rick Santorum provides expert testimony. Local supporters with the COS Ohio volunteer team also provided excellent proponent testimony. After the hearing concluded, Senior Vice President Rita Peters and Regional Director Andrew Lusch react and preview what's next.
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Carrie Villar, director of curatorial affairs at the National Postal Museum joins Bob to discuss America's tradition of using the U.S. Postal Service to accept, transport and deliver election ballots. The is a history dating back to the Civil War. Coincidentally, on September 27, Postmaster General DeJoy testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, in part, to assure American voters that they should be confident in the Postal Service's vote by mail efforts. The subcommittee is chaired by Rep. David Joyce (R-OH).
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Ashley Fueston, Vice President of the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE) — American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Council 28— joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the Walkout for Washington and their tentative agreement for the 2025-2027 General Government contract. On the final day of National Suicide Prevention Month, America's Work Force Union Podcast welcomed back Wayne Creasup II, Director of Health and Safety for the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers. Creasup discussed what the union is doing to address rising suicide rates in the union and the mental health resources available to members.
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SEGMENT 1 Time 6:03am cst WE ARE LIVE on The King 1010 WXKG, Our Flagship Syndication Station in Atlanta Georgia, all week from 7am-10am! 6:03am cst. Welcome to the Mike Church Show on www.crusadechannel.com Call the show 844-5CRUSADE Did you miss yesterday's LIVE Mike Church Show? Worry not, you can listen to all previously aired shows on CRUSADEchannel.com for just $15 a month! Plus get all of Mike Parrott's Parrott Talk Show, Brother André Marie's Reconquest, Fiorella de Maria's Mid-Day Show, The Barrett Brief Weekend Edition and much much more! Subscribe now and your first month is FREE! 20m HEADLINE: Pro-Hamas Agitators Block O'Hare Airport, Golden Gate Bridge, Valero and More With ‘Aim of Causing the Most Economic Impact' by Debra Heine The anti-Israel activists targeted commerce in multiple cities, including Chicago, Oakland, San Francisco, New York, Miami, and San Antonio, in an effort “to disrupt and blockade economic logistical hubs and the flow of capital.” There are people that are Christians in Gaza and yes they are being killed indiscriminately. Is it a crime to wave a Palestinian flag? It has parts of the Holy Land in it! The Middle East has always been a disaster. The “Dissenters” describe themselves as an “anti-militarism youth movement turning the tide against endless war in our communities here and abroad.” Respect for Human Life FACE Act This is from TJ - Thomas Jefferson This is the preamble to the Nullification of the Alien and Sedition Acts - In 1798, the United States stood on the brink of war with France. The Federalist Party, which advocated for a strong central government, believed that Democratic-Republican criticism of Federalist policies was disloyal and feared that "aliens," or non-citizens, living in the United States would sympathize with the French during a war. Sedition Act trials, along with the Senate's use of its contempt powers to suppress dissent, set off a firestorm of criticism against the Federalists and contributed to their defeat in the election of 1800, after which the acts were repealed or allowed to expire. The controversies surrounding them, however, provided for some of the first tests of the limits of freedom of speech and press. 6:35am cst SEGMENT 2 43m Alien Friend vs Alien Enemy HEADLINE: 1798: Kentucky Resolutions (Jefferson's Draft) 1. Resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general Government for special purposes,—delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force; that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress. Congress in a panic they started treating Cajuns like Nazi's during WWII. As a matter of fact the sedition part would have applied to Jefferson who was the VP at the time. He could have been killed! Might makes right. Clearly states what an alien friend and enemy are. Let's take a look at Abraham Lincoln and what he did.
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Congress is looking for details on federal telework as part of the latest government spending agreement — echoing months of return-to-office scrutiny from the House Oversight and Accountability committee.Among its many provisions, the agreement congressional appropriators reached Thursday for the back half of fiscal 2024 government spending bills lays out six new requirements on federal telework and return-to-office for federal employees.Within 90 days of the legislation's enactment, the Office of Management and Budget will have to turn over all agencies' return-to-office “action plans” outlined earlier this year, lawmakers said in an explanatory statement for the 2024 Financial Services and General Government bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Congress is looking for details on federal telework as part of the latest government spending agreement — echoing months of return-to-office scrutiny from the House Oversight and Accountability committee. Among its many provisions, the agreement congressional appropriators reached Thursday for the back half of fiscal 2024 government spending bills lays out six new requirements on federal telework and return-to-office for federal employees. Within 90 days of the legislation's enactment, the Office of Management and Budget will have to turn over all agencies' return-to-office “action plans” outlined earlier this year, lawmakers said in an explanatory statement for the 2024 Financial Services and General Government bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Rep. Carl Isett was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1996. He chaired the Sub-Committee on General Government of the House Appropriations Committee and the Budget Oversight for the Licensing and Regulatory Committee.Rep. Isett was elected by his peers to serve as President of the Texas Conservative Coalition and to serve on the Steering Committee for the House Research Organization. He was co-chair of the Texas Legislative Sportsman Caucus and served on the executive committee of the National Assembly of Sportsman Caucuses. He also served on the board of the Tower Institute and is a member of the Lubbock Lion's Club.He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting and Finance and his Master of Science degree in Finance from Texas Tech University. Carl has served as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Naval Reserve for 17 years. He holds the rank of Commander, attached to Commander Fleet Industrial Supply Center, San Diego. In October 2006 Rep. Isett returned from an extended deployment in Kuwait and Iraq.
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This session of the radio show shares the Finance Committee meeting held on Wednesday, December 13, 2023. They met as scheduled to get an update on the State revenue forecast, take a “deep dive” into the Facilities budget, and get an update on grants for Town and School over the past 10 years. 6 Finance Committee members participated; 4 in Chambers (Chair Conley, Hamilton, Riley & Nagel), 2 participated remotely (Keophannga & Sansoucy)Quick recap:State revenue forecast for FY 2024 not meeting expectation, no cuts yet per Governor, does likely mean less revenue for next years budget although local aid is usually one of the last to get affected, something to stay tuned intoBudget hearings for May 2024 were confirmed as May 6 for General Government, May 8 for Public safety (Police, Fire, & Dispatch) and DPW (water, sewer, storm water) and Schools on May 15. Proposed meeting calendar to be updated with this decisionDeep dive into FacilitiesDiscussion on the list of facilities provided, yes it is facilities not just the buildingsExtended discussion on the Upper Union St solar farm which we don't own but for which we own the electrical output and which leads to credits on the Town electrical bill that are used for multiple other electrical improvements, upgradesThis turned into a discussion on the heating efficiencies of some buildings; FHS for example was built with better insulation and the walls are R40, vs. the 3 middle school complex buildings are rated R19. This means the heating cots for those buildings are higher due to the less efficient (i.e. insulation factors)While mentioned in passing that the Master Plan Committee has a subcommittee on facilities, and the Schools are working on their long range comprehensive facilities plan, there were no further details added at this time. Members of the School Committee and Central office were present but did not get to provide any additional infoThe 10 year projection of expenses across the buildings was split evenly between Town and School per Chair Conley. It was not discussed how these expenses would be funded. It was mentioned that the Facilities budget is the first to get hit when a budget shortfall is needed to be adjusted for. Projects get postponed until funding is available (hence the listing of projects that exists, some of which have been awaiting for some time)Discussion on the 10 year report of grants received by the Town and Schools. These made for interesting reading although some of them are not purely "grants" (i.e. the cable access fees are included, they are present due to the accounting for them). One quick take away from the grant report is that the Town has been quite successful over time in obtaining grants and while they will continue to do so, the grant amounts are not sufficient to really make an impact on either the Town or School budget. Averaging approximately 4 million (combined Town & School) on a $150M budget is respectfully valuable but “small change”The meeting recording runs about an hour & 20 minutes, so let's listen to the Finance Committee meeting Dec 13, 2023.--------------Agenda -> https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/agendas/dec_13_2023_fin_com_agenda.pdf Watch the Franklin TV video available for replay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4WDEAYIeJU Public Property & Building,...
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Katie Neer is an attorney and Of Counsel at Dickinson & Avella in New York. Prior to private practice, Katie served as Assistant Secretary for General Government and Financial Services in the New York State Governor's Office. She gained in-house experience in the cannabis industry, working as the Director of Government Affairs for a multi-state-operator and Chair of the New York Medical Cannabis Industry Association. In those roles, she gained a specialised understanding of the challenges facing cannabis operators in several states, including New York, where policymakers recently enacted legislation to legalise and regulate cannabis for adult-use. A member of the New York State Bar, Katie was listed as an attorney on The Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch,” List for in 2021. In this episode: Cannabis in New York (4:00) Why the slow legalisation process? (8:50) A thriving illicit market (27:00) NY Medical Cannabis (34:00) What's next for New York? (41:00) Lacrosse Quiz (45:50) Biden's Federal Plans (51:00) Contact Katie at Dickinson & Avella Follow @katieneer on Twitter/X Follow @giveandtoke on Instagram Email Us giveandtoke@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/giveandtoke/message
Congressman Steve Womack, former Chairman of the House Budget Committee, joined Rep. Crenshaw to explain in layman's terms what is going on in Congress right now with the budget negotiations. They cover the tactical and strategic errors that got us into this mess and why the few GOP holdouts are pushing demands that will almost inevitably lead to more liberal spending bills. Rep. Womack also lays out the constitutional reforms he would like to see implemented to fix the budget process. And they cover the #1 problem that will drive America off a fiscal cliff: entitlement spending. Congressman Womack represents the 3rd District of Arkansas. He serves on the House Committee on Appropriations and serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. Follow him on X at @rep_stevewomack.
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The recent revelations by investigative journalists from Pro Publica about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' relationship with the Republican megadonor Harlan Crow have rekindled the debate about the lack of a code of ethics for members of the nation's highest court. We begin today with our Newsmaker guest, Sen. Chris Van Hollen. Last November, he was overwhelmingly elected to a second term in the US Senate, after serving 7 terms in the House. He serves on the powerful Appropriations Committee, and he chairs the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. That's the subcommittee that determines funding for, among others, the US Supreme Court… Sen. Van Hollen discusses the Senate's response to the scandal in the High Court, the imbroglio over Sen. Diane Feinstein's role on the Judiciary Committee, and the looming deadline for a vote on raising the US debt limit. Sen. Chris Van Hollen joins us on Zoom from his office on Capitol Hill.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
April 17, 2023 Rockingham County Commissioners MeetingAGENDA1. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER BY CHAIRMAN RICHARDSON2. INVOCATION3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE - Aubree Herndon, 8 years old, Monroeton Elementary, Avery Herndon, 6 years old, Monroeton Elementary4. RESOLUTION - Lance Metzler, County ManagerApproval - Resolution honoring the work of Robert "Bob" Wray Carter, County Historian for his lifetime work in genealogy and Rockingham County history.5. APPROVAL OF APRIL 17, 2023 AGENDA6. CONSENT AGENDA (Consent items as follows will be adopted with a single motion, second and vote, unless a request for removal from the Consent Agenda is heard from a Commissioner)A. Pat Galloway, Finance DirectorApproval - Transfer the June 2023 outstanding principal balance of the 2020B (NTE Reidsville Energy Center) debt in the amount of $961,000 from a Water Sewer Enterprise Fund debt classification to a General Government debt classification. The project was suspended prior to construction of an enterprise system asset and is more appropriately classified as a General Government debt type as discussed during the February 2023 annual bUdget planning retreat.2 Approval - Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Audit Contract and Engagement Letter with audit firm Thompson, Price, Scott, Adams & Co. PA The audit fees are $50,500 for the County audit and $2,625 for the Tourism Development Authority audit. The County fee "is $2,000 less than the prior fiscal year due to transitioning the writing of the annual financial report from the audit firm to the County Finance Department.3. Approval - Appropriate $22,000 of Northwest Fire District restricted fund balance that is due to Northwest Fire Department.4. Approval - Transfer funds of $2,208 to install an awning at the entrance of the Board of Elections Building. Funding will be provided by eXisting budget appropriations as follows:Board of Elections Building Repair line $1,000 Public Buildings - All County Buildings Repair $1,2085. Approval - Appropriate $12,845 of fund balance restricted for the Sheriff Department to purchase rifles and related equipment in order to assign a patrol rifle to sworn personnel who currently are not issued a county owned rifle. B. Todd Hurst, Interim Tax AdministratorApproval- Tax collection and reconciliation reports for March including refunds for March 22, 2023 thru April 4, 2023.C. Susan Washburn, Clerk to the BoardApproval - Recessed Board minutes for February 10, 2023 and Regular meeting minutes for April 3, 2023.D. Ben Curtis, Rockingham County Register of DeedsApproval - Resolution authorizing the Rockingham County Register of Deeds, to temporarily transfer records to an off-site or out-of-County location for reproduction, repair or preservation.7. PUBLIC COMMENT8. PUBLIC HEARINGS:A. Hiriam "Marzy" Marziano, Community Development Director1. Case 2023-03 - Zoning Amendment: Rezoning from Residential Protected (RP) and Residential Agricultural (RA) to Residential Agricultural (RA) Applicant: Elizabeth Suzanne Knight - Tax PINs: 7903-01-48-7699 -Address: 466 Eden Church Rd. - Huntsville Township.2. Case 2023-04 - Zoning Amendment: Rezoning from Highway Commercial Conditional District (HC-CD) to Highway Commercial (HC) - Applicant: George Daniel Carter, 111- Tax PINs: 7923-01-18-2000 -Address: 2804 US Highway 220 - Huntsville Township.3. Case 2023-05 - Zoning Amendment: Rezoning from Residential Protected (RP) to Residential Agricultural (RA) - Applicant: Trent Prater, Clayton Homes - Tax PINs: 7061-09-25-4439 - Address: Odie Ln (Parcel # 175179) Leaksville Township.4. Case 2023-07 - A text amendment request to the UDO Permitted Use Table and Supplemental Regulations to permit Religious Schools and Places of Worship in the Residential Protected (RP) district when located on the same parcel - Applicant: Corey Engebretson, Floyd Missionary Baptist Church UDO Amendments Permitted use Table, Article IV, Section 41.04; Supplemental Regulations Article VI, Section 62.79.5. Case 2023-08 - A request to amend various sections of the UDO related to the following:i. Manufactured Homes on Individual Lotsii. Landscape Design Standardsiii. Major Subdivision Reviewiv.. Wireless Telecommunication Towersv. Accessory Dwelling Unit/Guesthousevi. Shipping ContainersApplicant: Rockingham County Community Development Department, UDO Amendments: Article III, Section 3401, Article IV, Section 41.04; Article V, Section 54.01; Article VI, Section 62.01, Section 62.39, Section 62.66, Section 62.79, Section 62.81, Section 62.88.B. Lance Metzler, County ManagerResolution requesting establishment of a "No Wake Zone" for Belews Lake at the Carolina Marina.9. PRESENTATION: Victoria Whitt, Sandhills CenterSandhills Center County General Budget funding request and program update.10. PRESENTATION: Lance Metzler, County ManagerApproval - Adoption of a resolution and approve a budget amendment for NC Opioid Settlement funding to establish a Behavioral Health Urgent Care (BHUC) in Rockingham County.11. NEW BUSINESS12. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS13. CLOSED SESSION:Pursuant to: N.C.G.S. 143-318.11 (a)(1) Approve Closed Session Minutes; and N.C.G.S. 143-31811(a)(5) Instruct Negotiating Agents14. ADJOURN###
I appeared on behalf of the NYS Elections Commissioner Association and my Democratic Caucus of Commissioner to ask for NYS Funding for county Board of Elections as well as capital funding to replace equipment. Members also asked questions on Voter ID, Moving elections to even years, and proper timing of village elections. Enjoy. Full Hearing can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5uu6g_YLlA&t=26762s Written testimony can be found here: https://dustinczarny.com/2023/02/16/2023-testimony-local-government-officials-general-government-new-york-state-budget-public-hearing/
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When Satan shows the Lord Jesus all the kingdoms of this world -in a moment in time,- he is attempting to cast a -glamour- over him -Luke 4-5-6-. In John 8-44, our Lord informs us that Satan is both a murderer and a liar, -for he is a liar and the father of lies.---Satan's claim contains at least two lies. Nobody gave him the authority and glory over the kingdoms of this world- he simply moved in when Adam and Eve were forced to leave. And he cannot do anything without God's authority.--One of Satan's greatest lies is that God should not have anything to do with civil government. The devil has cast a glamour over people to believe such nonsense based on a misunderstanding of Matthew 22-21. Jesus is not setting forth a doctrine to keep God out of civil government there- he is simply demolishing the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and Herodians with their trick question about paying taxes to Rome.--The Constitution of the United States does not contain the expression, -A wall of separation between church and state.- Rather, it creates a wall between the Federal and state governments- -In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies.---That is in keeping with the Northwest Ordinance, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1787, the same year the Constitution was sent down for ratification by the states.
When Satan shows the Lord Jesus all the kingdoms of this world -in a moment in time,- he is attempting to cast a -glamour- over him -Luke 4-5-6-. In John 8-44, our Lord informs us that Satan is both a murderer and a liar, -for he is a liar and the father of lies.---Satan's claim contains at least two lies. Nobody gave him the authority and glory over the kingdoms of this world- he simply moved in when Adam and Eve were forced to leave. And he cannot do anything without God's authority.--One of Satan's greatest lies is that God should not have anything to do with civil government. The devil has cast a glamour over people to believe such nonsense based on a misunderstanding of Matthew 22-21. Jesus is not setting forth a doctrine to keep God out of civil government there- he is simply demolishing the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and Herodians with their trick question about paying taxes to Rome.--The Constitution of the United States does not contain the expression, -A wall of separation between church and state.- Rather, it creates a wall between the Federal and state governments- -In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies.---That is in keeping with the Northwest Ordinance, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1787, the same year the Constitution was sent down for ratification by the states.
When Satan shows the Lord Jesus all the kingdoms of this world -in a moment in time,- he is attempting to cast a -glamour- over him -Luke 4-5-6-. In John 8-44, our Lord informs us that Satan is both a murderer and a liar, -for he is a liar and the father of lies.---Satan's claim contains at least two lies. Nobody gave him the authority and glory over the kingdoms of this world- he simply moved in when Adam and Eve were forced to leave. And he cannot do anything without God's authority.--One of Satan's greatest lies is that God should not have anything to do with civil government. The devil has cast a glamour over people to believe such nonsense based on a misunderstanding of Matthew 22-21. Jesus is not setting forth a doctrine to keep God out of civil government there- he is simply demolishing the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and Herodians with their trick question about paying taxes to Rome.--The Constitution of the United States does not contain the expression, -A wall of separation between church and state.- Rather, it creates a wall between the Federal and state governments- -In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies.---That is in keeping with the Northwest Ordinance, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1787, the same year the Constitution was sent down for ratification by the states.
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When Satan shows the Lord Jesus all the kingdoms of this world "in a moment in time," he is attempting to cast a "glamour" over him (Luke 4:5-6). In John 8:44, our Lord informs us that Satan is both a murderer and a liar, "for he is a liar and the father of lies."Satan's claim contains at least two lies. Nobody gave him the authority and glory over the kingdoms of this world; he simply moved in when Adam and Eve were forced to leave. And he cannot do anything without God's authority.One of Satan's greatest lies is that God should not have anything to do with civil government. The devil has cast a glamour over people to believe such nonsense based on a misunderstanding of Matthew 22:21. Jesus is not setting forth a doctrine to keep God out of civil government there; he is simply demolishing the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and Herodians with their trick question about paying taxes to Rome.The Constitution of the United States does not contain the expression, "A wall of separation between church and state." Rather, it creates a wall between the Federal and state governments: "In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies."That is in keeping with the Northwest Ordinance, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1787, the same year the Constitution was sent down for ratification by the states.
October 18, 2022 — With harvest season underway, cannabis is in the spotlight at the Board of Supervisors chambers. Earlier this month, at a meeting that dragged on until after 7:00 pm, the Board discussed a dozen recommendations by the cannabis ad hoc committee, consisting of Supervisors John Haschak and Glenn McGourty. Several of the recommendations were passed to the General Government standing committee, which is made up of Supervisors Maureen Mulheren and Dan Gjerde. The composition could change next year, with the rotation of positions on the board. The question of vegetation modification, referred to politely as veg mod purgatory, is still hanging in the air, as an outside legal firm ponders the details. Growers have worried that their permits could be revoked or denied if they remove trees and vegetation from around their grow sites, even if it was for fire safety or because the vegetation was diseased. At Monday's General Government standing committee meeting, County Counsel Christian Curtis asked for more time to prepare an affidavit for growers to present as evidence that they have removed a tree for legitimate purposes. “The primary issue here is not so much the issue of whether or not trees can be removed,” he said. “I think that's pretty clear from the ordinance that they can, unless it's a commercial species, with certain provisos…I see from the recommendation put forward from the ad hoc, there are some features there that model what we've been working on…we're working with the department on a potential affidavit process to essentially establish as a starting point where people are, establish compliance with the ordinance with respect to the tree removal…a big part of the issue is, when you have the affidavit, what are the appropriate standards for the departments to apply when they think there may be something false in the affidavit, what may be the appropriate standard, both to investigate, and once having investigated, what would be an appropriate standard to apply, based on what they have.” Attorney Hannah Nelson, who outlined the idea about the affidavit in a memo to the Board, summarized the historical context of policies that haven't always arrived at a tidy conclusion. “This is after five and a half years, the sixth department head slash manager in the third department, and processes have changed, and so I think that it's important to note that it's not just about the evidentiary standards, but also inclusion of standards such as, can dead trees be removed or not,” she opined. Michael Katz, Executive Director of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, urged the committee to avail itself of Nelson's legal memos. Last month, she submitted several pages on tree removal, with details about the affidavit and a critique of the current vegetation modification notice process. “Hannah is a thirty-year expert attorney who successfully litigated the first case for the federal government to have to return medical cannabis to a patient,” he said. “So she really knows what she's talking about. And for her to provide dozens and dozens of pages of specific language recommendations that are then be either ignored or unseen or asked for repeatedly, and not actually absorbed and integrated, the county is losing money by not utilizing this free resource and instead hiring outside counsels to come up with things that are already established law.” The issue will come back before the committee next month. Another item that came before the committee was a suggestion from the ad hoc to create a process to resolve disputes over permits without denying them. The intent is to keep the current applicants on track to getting their state licenses by next summer. Cannabis Department Director Kristin Nevedal said she could craft such a policy, but that it might include a fee. During public comment, Susan Tibben referred to the next big grant that will soon be available to growers. Nevedal succeeded in securing an $18 million local jurisdiction assistance grant program from the state, specifically to help growers comply with environmental requirements for their state licensure. Ten million dollars of the grant will be available to applicants, in awards up to $100,000. The first application window will open in mid-January, and be open for four weeks. After six to eight weeks to process the applications, the window will open again. Tibben thought there would be enough money in the department that applicants disputing an issue in their permits should be able talk with a planner at no extra cost. “The idea of staff hour fees tied in any way to a fee for the permittee is just absolutely unacceptable,” she opined. “You know, earlier today, $18 million was referenced with regard to the LJAGP (local jurisdiction assistance grant program), with $10 million earmarked for grantees, so that would leave $8 million, and also our tax dollars…so please do not even consider a hierarchy of department assistance tied to additional fees.” On the next day's Board of Supervisors agenda was a recommendation to amend the county cultivation ordinance to establish an appeals process for permit applications that do get denied, with a fee to be established by the Board. One of the consent calendar items is a retroactive agreement with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for $231,654 for sensitive species habitat reviews that agency started conducting in February of last year. An item without materials attached is a recommendation to clarify that removing dead and hazardous vegetation is not development, and to direct Planning and Building Services to deprioritize all related code enforcement. Tibben's partner Paul Hansbury used part of his allotted three minutes of public comment to reflect on the incremental, long-term nature of crafting cannabis policy. “My partner Susan and I have been advocates for a very long time,” he said. “We've traveled on a state level to all the cannabis advisory meetings. And at one point, we made up little stickers for everybody in the audience, saying, ‘trying to make a difference, three minutes at a time.'”
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August 18 — Union members packed into the Board of Supervisors chambers at last week's meeting, scoffing at claims of a financial crisis and calling for an increase in pay. “We've been hearing that the county can't afford a cost of living increase because there's a financial crisis,” said Patrick Hickey, the field representative for SEIU Local 1021, which represents most of the county's unionized workers. “But is there? In a word: no.” The county has asked for a year-long pause in negotiations over a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) to assess the financial situation on the national as well as local levels. And the Board contemplated a program to exempt media from paying fees for public records act requests, even as a new system of including public comment on meeting agendas has drastically reduced the public discourse. Hickey argued that in the last five years, the county has overestimated expenses and underestimated revenues, sometimes by more than 100% for one source of tax funds. Union members clapped and cheered as he shared his data points with the Board. “The only potential funding shortfall is in cannabis taxes,” he declared; “which everyone who was paying attention knew was coming. But every other funding stream is increasing. How can the Board take action to support county employees? Number one: there are 264 funded, unfilled positions. Repurpose some of those funds. The county has argued that there is no money there because it gets used up by overtime and extra help. But you need to look at the actual data. If you review the past budgets, and the recently released annual comprehensive financial report, you will see that that is not true. There is an increase in overtime and extra help, but it doesn't come close to using up the savings when those positions are not filled. Number two: for this year's budget, the county has projected no increase in sales tax revenues. Let's take a look at how well the county has done in forecasting sales and use tax revenues.” In the last five years, he said, “actual revenues are regularly higher than projected, and expenses are regularly lower than projected. The budget is a fiction, designed to make the Board look prudent and effective. The Board needs to understand this, and make decisions accordingly.” Not all of the presentations were quite as data-driven. Jessica Christensen shared responses to county job postings on Facebook. “We are advertising that your check can be up to $1850 per paycheck,” she began. “Up to. And this is what the public had to say about that: ‘Mendocino County is a gorgeous place to live. But the job market couldn't suck harder if it attached a nozzle to it.'” She went on, including some frank language from users of the site, as union members laughed and held up their signs. Union President Julie Beardsley predicted what will happen if more workers become dissatisfied and leave the county. “Falling behind in employee compensation will result in a lack of services, phones not being answered, long wait times for permits, and it will put the most vulnerable in our county at risk,” she declared. The public is also no longer privy to correspondence with the Board of Supervisors on matters of public interest. Up until the beginning of June, comments addressed to the Board about items under discussion during the meetings would be attached to the pertinent agenda item. They were often plentiful, and they ranged from expert opinion to angry one-liners. But a new system, called Granicus, requires commenters to create a password-protected account, which has not caught on. I was first surprised on June 21, when it appeared that no one besides supervisors and county staff had anything to say about a controversial proposal for a sales tax. Since then, only county documents have appeared on the agendas. Since the new system was in place, I have obtained at least three important letters about topics that are clearly in the public interest — just not by way of the agenda. Chamise Cubbison, the elected Treasurer-Tax Collector/Auditor-Controller, wrote to the Board of Supervisors on August 2, characterizing assertions they had made about the county's budget as false. Earlier that day, the Board had agreed to ask the State Controller to help the county with its budget, due to an alleged financial crisis. Cubbison informed the Board that the meeting had been full of misinformation, and that she had not been given a chance to respond. That letter made its way into my hands informally. On July 29, Cannabis Department Director Kristin Nevedal wrote to the Board of Supervisors about updates to the manual for the cannabis equity grant program. Mismanagement and delays in administering the direct grants to qualified applicants were the subject of a recent Grand Jury report, called “Building the Airplane While it's Flying.” I also obtained this piece of correspondence, from a public servant to elected representatives, informally. I happen to be on the mailing list for the Redwood Valley Municipal Advisory Council, which wrote a letter to the Board dated August 10, urging it to adopt a standing committee to address cannabis issues. They wrote that, “As is obvious to everyone now, the roll out of the cannabis permit program has been fraught with hiccups and missteps sinc ethe inception.” At the meeting no August 16, the Board directed cannabis concerns to the General Government standing committee. The cannabis community has been requesting this for years, but the Board has held firm on its position that the entire Board should hear cannabis matters, and that an ad hoc committee should take up specific, narrowly defined problems. But the Board changed its position during a discussion about an item on a retroactive contract amendment that was pulled from the middle of the consent calendar. The public did not have a chance to see who, besides the MAC and the cannabis community, had weighed in on that decision by writing to the Board. The most recent agenda consisted of 66 items, and contained only one public comment, which was a memo from the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, an advocacy organization that has long been working with the Board and the public to establish and clarify its position. I shared my thoughts about this with the Board during public comment on Tuesday. I said that previously, I have been able to gauge the level of public interest in an item, including the thoughts of people who are not well-versed in advocacy; and that I find value and interest in what the public has to say. Williams responded that he agreed, but that the Clerk of the Board's office is down from five employees to about 1.5. The union members, who were in the room for public comment, booed and groaned. Williams said the clerk is charged with saving emails as pdf's, and manually uploading them as comments. “We simply didn't have staff time, based on the number of comments,” he said. “I'm not saying that we shouldn't have that simplified model that we had before, but it's a struggle, and it's not just in the clerk's office. It's across the board. Every problem that we look at, we say, we don't have enough personnel to carry it out. Yes, it's a problem…I don't know what that solution is today. It's not as easy as directing staff to put back in place what was in place previously. Because we simply don't have the staff time to carry it out.” The County recently used close to $370,000 in one-time American Rescue Plan Act funds to remodel the Board of Supervisors chambers, including new chairs, a new telecom system, and an automatic door system. Beardsley, the union president, summarized her position: “We have examined the budget, and the claims of no money just don't add up.”
August 17 — A consent calendar item on the agenda for this week's Board of Supervisors meeting revived concerns about mismanagement and delays at the equity cannabis grant program, which was the topic of a recent Grand Jury report. And cannabis issues will now be directed to the General Government committee, a standing committee that meets every other month under Brown Act requirements and will bring proposals to the full board. Cannabis advocates have long requested a standing committee, but will now work with two supervisors who have not been serving on the more limited ad hoc. The equity grant is a state-funded direct grant program that is supposed to provide some assistance to people in the cannabis industry who can prove they were harmed by the war on drugs. In 2020, the county received $2.2 million in round one funding. It has also received roughly $800,000 in round two funding. Ten percent of those funds can be used for administrative costs. On Tuesday, the Board was asked to approve an amendment to the contract with the company hired to administer the grant, Elevate Impact, by over $83,000 in back pay, for work performed between February and August of this year. The expectation was that the contractor would do 95% of the work administering the funds, but that number has been closer to 50%. Five checks have found their way into the hands of applicants, and 47 approved grant applications are under review at County Counsel's office, to make sure the funds won't be misused . Supervisor John Haschak pulled the item for a more fulsome discussion, saying, “dealing with this amount of people and almost $300,000 of administration and untold amounts of administration from our cannabis department, because we're taking on half of the workload…I would just like to see the county compensated, rather than these outside entities.” Monique Ramirez, a grant recipient, reeled off a list of difficulties she's encountered with the program. “I have a really hard time seeing us potentially give more money to the LEEP program when they have not effectively done their job to this point,” she said. “Back in February, I submitted a very lengthy memo about the equity program, detailing, I believe there were 123 emails with the correspondence in the back and forth that I had to go through just to get to the point of finally getting my check…even my check wasn't issued correctly.” Haschak had a number of complaints about the contract with Elevate Impact. “The county is expending time and resources on these equity grants,” he declared. “But we do need to get the equity grants out. It's been way too long, and it's been way too micromanaged.” When Supervisor Ted Williams asked him if he would be willing to bring back an agenda item with a proposal, Haschak said he thought the cannabis department should bring back a proposal to the Board, “because I don't understand the contract. None of us understand the contract with Elevate. We haven't seen any information for it.” The Grand Jury report, called “Building the Airplane While It's Flying,” found that Elevate Impact, the contractor hired by the county, lacks experience in rural capital improvements projects. Cannabis Department Director Kristin Nevedal said the contractor does not have a team of planners on staff, and that the county didn't have enough information about the applications in advance to realize that planners would be necessary. She also said the program had been on hold for months, starting in April. “It was on hold for three months,” she said, “during which time we could not proceed with county reviews. We proceeded with department approval, but we couldn't proceed with moving those proposals through Cobblestone,” the county's multi-department contract management system. The information about the pause was news to Michael Katz, the Executive Director of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, who also said that growers have long been trying to bring their parcels into compliance with CEQA. The earliest iterations of the program, he said, required the involvement of Planning and Building Services. In an interview, he lamented that from the beginning, “expert stakeholder input was not integrated to create a more successful program.” To the question about whether or not the county will be able to pay itself for administering the grant, Nevedal said that, with the payments to Elevate Impact, the county was close to the $300,000 administrative cap that's allowed for the $3 million in grant funds. “WIthout the contract administrators, we would have to drastically staff up,” she said. “We do not have allocations for staff for grant purposes. Nor have we budgeted for staff for grant purposes…if the Board were to not proceed with the Elevate contract, we would have to cease processing equity applications until such time as we had allocations from the Board for staffing specific to this program.' County Counsel Christian Curtis told the Board they had the option of shutting down the program. “If you're looking to re-evaluate, you could just decide not to proceed with this program,” he said. “You could look at wrapping it up, rather than re-staffing or moving forward.” Attorney and cannabis advocate Hannah Nelson said she thinks the answer is taking a hard look at the program and making it work. “The answer is to not stop a program, but rather, when millions and millions and millions of dollars are coming into the county, and being re-invested locally, it's imperative that we look and see, how can we improve the system so it functions,” she urged the Board. There was still some miscommunication near the end of the discussion, when CEO Darcie Antle and Nevedal each thought the other had been tasked to ask the Auditor-Controller to approve a special run of checks for the applicants who have been stuck in the system. If the money is not spent by the end of the month, the county could either be required to return it to the state or be ineligible for future grants. Moments before the board voted to send the matter to the General Government committee, Antle broke into a supervisor's request with a piece of news. “The special run for August 31st has been approved,” she announced. The next General Government committee meeting is scheduled for October 17 at 1:30 pm.
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Civilian federal employees are one step closer to a 4.6% across-the-board pay raise in 2023, and for the first time since at least 2014, are inching toward a lift of the pay freeze for political appointees in the Senior Executive Service. Senate appropriators on the Financial Services and General Government subcommittee aligned with the White House's federal pay raise request on July 28, after releasing the fiscal 2023 financial services and general government draft spending bill.
July 1, 2022 — Fort Bragg bid farewell to Police Chief John Naulty and Interim City Manager David Spaur this week. At Monday's City Council meeting, the Council also passed the 22/23 budget, with the assurance that it can be amended as labor negotiations proceed. The city labor union, SEIU Local 1021, is advocating for a 5% COLA, or cost of living increase, but the city has budgeted 3%. Union leaders also argued that the compensation and comparison study was not realistic, as Fort Bragg was compared to Lakeport, where the cost of living is much lower. Naulty and Spaur came out of retirement to serve as heads of the police force and the city. As public servants, they receive CalPers benefits, which would be reduced if they worked more than 960 hours after retirement. But while the city is facing what could be a lengthy recruitment for a new city manager, a new police chief is expected to start work later this month, on July 25. According to a city press release, Neil Cervenka is a veteran of the Air Force and the Turlock Police Department. He also serves as Treasurer on the Executive Board of Directors for the California Peace Officers Association. Cervenka's salary and benefits will be $110k a year. Council members credited Naulty with improving the culture at the police department and highlighted the grim day when he traded gunfire with the man who killed Sheriff's Deputy Ricki Del Fiorentino in 2014. Naulty said he expects the new chief to improve the department further, by focusing on training and technology. “It's just going to flourish even more,” he promised. “We're fortunate in Mendocino County to be fully staffed, one of the few departments. I mean, some don't even have a chief anymore, and some people barely have enough officers to cover all the shifts, but we're one of the fortunate few. It's thanks to you guys for listening to me, and the investments that you've placed into these people, so you guys deserve a lot of credit.” The new fiscal year starts July 1, and the council approved a $38.1 million budget. That's a $740k decrease from last year, mostly because of upgrades to the wastewater treatment facility and the water meter replacement project. However, the budget for salaries and wages increased by $744k to include packages for high-paying positions like police chief and city manager, as well as two social services workers and an engineering technician. Public Works consumes about 12% of the budget, coming in third after General Government at 19% and police, at 35%. Assistant Director of Finance Isaac Whippy told the council the city has a surplus of $175k, with a projected $3.4 million general fund balance for the upcoming fiscal year. But he warned that a widely predicted recession could knock out the city's strong ToT (transient occupancy tax, or bed tax paid to lodging establishments) and sales tax revenue. “We could see a decline in our tax revenue, particularly our sales tax revenue, by 10-15%,” he predicted. “And similarly for ToT taxes. So if a recession were to happen in 23/24, we would see a decline in fund balance by $510k, and then in 24/25 there would be a slow recovery from that recession.” The approved budget includes the 3% COLA increase for most city workers, but Assistant City Manager Sarah McCormick's salary is going up by about $5k. Outgoing Interim City Manager David Spaur summarized the budget implication. “The proposed change in this item, 5G, authorizes an annual salary for the position of Assistant City Manager up to the amount of $120,972.80,” he said. “There will be some salary savings from not having a City Manager for a period of time, as this week will be my last week.” John Ford, of Humboldt County, had accepted the city manager position, but asked to be released from his contract earlier this month, citing family reasons. In a brief interview, Council Member Lindy Peters explained that Spaur had served Fort Bragg at $76 an hour for the 960 hours allowed by CalPers. Peters said now the city is facing a choice. The city can look for another manager through a recruiting agency, which could leave the Council trying to hire someone right after the election, when there might be brand-new Council members. He said the city could also mount its own recruitment efforts, or work its connections through the League of California Cities to try and find another retired city manager who could give Fort Bragg another 960 hours. Meanwhile, city workers lined up during public comment to petition for a higher COLA. Merle Larsen said his reduced earnings as inflation climbs would have an impact on the city's finances as a whole. “What you're doing, is everywhere that I shop downtown, they're not gonna get the money,” he vowed. “You're not penalizing me. I'm gonna go online. I'm gonna go over the hill. I'm going wherever it's cheaper to buy something. So you know what that means here? Less tax dollars. Less for you, when you make that decision.” Vice Mayor Jessica Morsell-Haye said approving the budget was awkward while the city is in negotiations with the union, but Spaur and Whippy assured the Council that they could adopt the budget and retroactively award workers a higher COLA if that is the final result of negotiations. In a final fiscal decision, the Council voted unanimously to approve a resolution granting a three-year waiver of water and wastewater capacity fees for restaurants, cafes, and food service businesses in the Central Business District. According to a staff report, the fees can be as high as $50,000 for a restaurant moving into a location that has not been used for that purpose before. Staff analysis calculated that the fiscal impact for waiving the fees could add up to more than $120,000 over the three years, but that it could be balanced out by sales taxes from the new businesses, with ongoing positive revenue. The City already allows businesses to request a waiver, but in order for it to be granted, it must pass the test of being a public benefit. Council Member Tess Albin-Smith asked that that proviso be spelled out in an upcoming resolution waiving the capacity fees for the rest of the city. Morsell-Haye summed up the feeling on the council, saying, “For years, we've talked about how to be business friendly, and I think right here, we're actually accomplishing it for once. So thank you.”
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This session of the radio show shares the Finance Committee budget hearing #1 for the FY 2023 Town of Franklin budget held on Monday, May 9, 2022. The meeting was conducted in a hybrid format: 8 members of the Finance Committee were in the Council Chambers along with some of the public, 1 member was remote along with some members the public via conference bridge, all to adhere to the ‘social distancing' requirements of this pandemic period. Chair Bill Dowd opens the Finance Committee, 9 members participating (1 remote, hence roll call votes req'd). This is the first of three sessions on the FY 2023 budget The FinCom heard the proposal for the second pass on the FY 22 capital plan, and moved to approve as put forward to recommend to the Town Council. Vote was 9-0 via roll call Town Administrator Jamie Hellen provides a brief overview of the revenue summary, referring to the budget narrative to be read for additional details. Each department item for the General Government was reviewed, some were straight forward, some had minor increases or adjustments. For example, three of the permitting staff were previously in one budget and now allocated out to the individual departments so those adjustments appeared. The recording runs about an hour and twenty minutes, so let's listen to the Finance Committee meeting May 9, 2022. -------------- Meeting agenda => https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/agendas/_2022-05-09_finance_committee_agenda_1.pdf (https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif6896/f/agendas/_2022-05-09_finance_committee_agenda_1.pdf) Link to Finance Committee => https://www.franklinma.gov/finance-committee (https://www.franklinma.gov/finance-committee) My notes for the meeting => https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ZEDkgsyqARABbLEuDz0RoYIOIAHPFYh/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ZEDkgsyqARABbLEuDz0RoYIOIAHPFYh/view?usp=sharing) YouTube recording => https://youtu.be/iXCn6jBND1U (https://youtu.be/iXCn6jBND1U) -------------- We are now producing this in collaboration with http://www.franklin.tv/ (Franklin.TV) and Franklin Public Radio (http://www.wfpr.fm/ (wfpr.fm)) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial. This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help. How can you help? If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighbors If you don't like something here, please let me know Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening. For additional information, please visit https://franklinmatters.org/ (Franklinmatters.org/) or http://www.franklin.news/ (www.franklin.news/) If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com The music for the intro and exit was provided byhttp://www.eastofshirley.com/ ( Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley"). The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission. I hope you enjoy! ------------------ You can also subscribe and listen to Franklin Matters audio on iTunes or your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "Franklin Matters"
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With an aging federal workforce and rising inflation rates, 62 legislators urge the House Committee on Appropriations to add a pay bump to the fiscal 2023 Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill. The latest push for a federal pay raise of 5.1% comes from this year's iteration of the "FAIR" Act, sponsored by Virginia Congressman Gerry Connolly. He tells Federal News Network's Drew Friedman, even though inflation's at 8.5%, his 5.1% is a more realistic goal.
The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. It is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment was introduced during the drafting of the Bill of Rights when some of the American founders became concerned that future generations might argue that, because a certain right was not listed in the Bill of Rights, it did not exist. However, the Ninth Amendment has rarely played any role in U.S. constitutional law, and until the 1980s was often considered "forgotten" or "irrelevant" by many legal academics. Text. The amendment, as proposed by Congress in 1789 and later ratified as the Ninth Amendment, reads as follows: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Background before adoption. When the U.S. Constitution was put to the states for ratification after being signed on September 17, 1787, the Anti-Federalists argued that a Bill of Rights should be added. One of the arguments the Federalists gave against the addition of a Bill of Rights, during the debates about ratification of the Constitution, was that a listing of rights could problematically enlarge the powers specified in Article One, Section 8 of the new Constitution by implication. For example, in Federalist 84, Alexander Hamilton asked, "Why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?" Likewise, James Madison explained to Thomas Jefferson, "I conceive that in a certain degree ... the rights in question are reserved by the manner in which the federal powers are granted" by Article One, Section 8 of the Constitution. The Anti-Federalists persisted in favor of a Bill of Rights during the ratification debates, but also were against ratification, and consequently several of the state ratification conventions gave their assent with accompanying resolutions proposing amendments to be added. In 1788, the Virginia Ratifying Convention attempted to solve the problem that Hamilton and the Federalists had identified by proposing a constitutional amendment specifying: That those clauses which declare that Congress shall not exercise certain powers be not interpreted in any manner whatsoever to extend the powers of Congress. But that they may be construed either as making exceptions to the specified powers where this shall be the case, or otherwise as inserted merely for greater caution. This proposal ultimately led to the Ninth Amendment. In 1789, while introducing to the House of Representatives nineteen draft Amendments, James Madison addressed what would become the Ninth Amendment as follows: It has been objected also against a Bill of Rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution.
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and Jews, in occupied Poland. Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians and administrators--greatly overlooked and only partially referenced today--not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War II. Paweł Markiewicz is currently chief specialist analyst in the International Security Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. He has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Slavonic and East European Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Polish Review, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Dzieje Najnowsze, and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny while providing commentaries, including to the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza newspapers. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and Jews, in occupied Poland. Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians and administrators--greatly overlooked and only partially referenced today--not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War II. Paweł Markiewicz is currently chief specialist analyst in the International Security Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. He has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Slavonic and East European Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Polish Review, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Dzieje Najnowsze, and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny while providing commentaries, including to the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza newspapers. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and Jews, in occupied Poland. Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians and administrators--greatly overlooked and only partially referenced today--not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War II. Paweł Markiewicz is currently chief specialist analyst in the International Security Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. He has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Slavonic and East European Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Polish Review, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Dzieje Najnowsze, and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny while providing commentaries, including to the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza newspapers. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and Jews, in occupied Poland. Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians and administrators--greatly overlooked and only partially referenced today--not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War II. Paweł Markiewicz is currently chief specialist analyst in the International Security Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. He has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Slavonic and East European Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Polish Review, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Dzieje Najnowsze, and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny while providing commentaries, including to the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza newspapers. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and Jews, in occupied Poland. Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians and administrators--greatly overlooked and only partially referenced today--not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War II. Paweł Markiewicz is currently chief specialist analyst in the International Security Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. He has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Slavonic and East European Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Polish Review, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Dzieje Najnowsze, and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny while providing commentaries, including to the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza newspapers. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and Jews, in occupied Poland. Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians and administrators--greatly overlooked and only partially referenced today--not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War II. Paweł Markiewicz is currently chief specialist analyst in the International Security Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. He has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Slavonic and East European Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Polish Review, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Dzieje Najnowsze, and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny while providing commentaries, including to the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza newspapers. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and Jews, in occupied Poland. Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians and administrators--greatly overlooked and only partially referenced today--not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War II. Paweł Markiewicz is currently chief specialist analyst in the International Security Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. He has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Slavonic and East European Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Polish Review, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Dzieje Najnowsze, and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny while providing commentaries, including to the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza newspapers. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and Jews, in occupied Poland. Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians and administrators--greatly overlooked and only partially referenced today--not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War II. Paweł Markiewicz is currently chief specialist analyst in the International Security Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. He has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Slavonic and East European Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Polish Review, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Dzieje Najnowsze, and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny while providing commentaries, including to the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza newspapers. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist. The contact between Kubiiovych and Nazi administrators at various levels shows where their collaboration coincided and where it differed, providing a full understanding of the Ukrainian Committee's ties with the occupation authorities and its relationship with other groups, like Poles and Jews, in occupied Poland. Ukrainian nationalists' collaboration created an opportunity to neutralize prewar Polish influences in various strata of social life. Kubiiovych hoped for the emergence of an autonomous Ukrainian region within the borders of the General Government or an ethnographic state closely associated with the Third Reich. This led to his partnership with the Third Reich to create a new European order after the war. Through their occupational policy of divide to conquer, German concessions raised Ukrainians to the position of a full-fledged ethnic group, giving them the respect they sought throughout the interwar period. Yet collaboration also contributed to the eruption of a bloody Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict. Kubiiovych's wartime experiences with Nazi politicians and administrators--greatly overlooked and only partially referenced today--not only illustrate the history of German-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian relations, but also supply a missing piece to the larger, more controversial puzzle of collaboration during World War II. Paweł Markiewicz is currently chief specialist analyst in the International Security Program at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. He has contributed articles and reviews to such journals as Slavonic and East European Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, The Polish Review, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Dzieje Najnowsze, and Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny while providing commentaries, including to the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza newspapers. Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
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Description: Oklahoma is helping military students successfully transition through Purple Star Initiative. Oklahoma's Senator John Montgomery and Representative Daniel Pae chat with Andi Janoe, Director of Implementation at MCEC, about Bill SB 54 and its impact on military families. This podcast was brought to you by the generous support of the Offutt Officers' Spouses' Club. https://offuttosc.com/ Show Notes: https://www.militarychild.org/purplestarschools http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22%20ENR/SB/SB54%20ENR.PDF https://legiscan.com/OK/legislation/2021 https://kfor.com/news/gov-stitt-signs-bill-designating-oklahoma-as-a-purple-heart-state/ Bio: Daniel Pae Daniel Pae currently serves as the state representative for House District 62. Before he was elected to the state legislature, Daniel worked as an Administrative Assistant in the Lawton City Manager's Office. Born and raised in Lawton, Daniel is a proud graduate of Lawton High School's Class of 2013. During his time at LHS, Daniel served in Student Council, Media Productions, and National Honor Society. He was the state champion for the Lions Club Speech Contest and the recipient of the Hugh Bish Award, which is given to the top student in each graduating class. Daniel graduated from the University of Oklahoma with two majors in economics and political science, two minors in history and international area studies, and a master's degree in public administration. Daniel served as OU's Student Body President, along with volunteering his time with The Oklahoma Group, Loveworks Afterschool Leadership, and Generation Citizen. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a 4.0 grade point average. Daniel received numerous scholarships, honors, and awards during his college career, including the Carl Albert Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Carl Albert Capitol Scholars, and Henderson Scholarship. He was named to PE-ET Top Ten Senior Honor Society, OU Homecoming Royalty, and as a Big Man on Campus. Daniel also received the President's Award for Outstanding Sophomores, the Regents' Award for Outstanding Juniors, and the Outstanding Senior Man Award. He was named the recipient of the 2017 Carl Albert Award, which is the most prestigious award given to a student by the OU College of Arts and Sciences based on academics, moral force of character, and promise of future service to the state and nation. In his hometown, Daniel serves on the Young Professionals of Lawton Board of Directors, Leadership Lawton Fort Sill Board of Directors, and Marie Detty Youth & Family Services Board of Trustees. Additionally, he serves on the Autism Foundation of Oklahoma Board and The Oklahoma Academy Advisory Council. He is a graduate of Leadership Lawton Fort Sill Class 28, the 2019 Center for the Advancement of Leadership Skills, the inaugural City of Lawton's Citizens Academy, and Leadership Oklahoma Class 33. Whenever he has free time, he enjoys going on unexpected adventures with family and friends, working out at the gym, and reading books from the Lawton Public Library. Daniel regularly goes to the movie theater, especially if there is a new Disney-Pixar film that is released Bio: John Montgomery “John Michael Montgomery was born and raised in Lawton and graduated from Eisenhower High School. He began college at Cameron University before transferring to the University of Oklahoma and completed a B.A. in International Studies. Montgomery finished work at OU for his M.A. in Global Affairs in summer 2019. Montgomery works in the financial services industry and founded his own investment advisory firm, Invictus Investment Advisors in 2019. Prior to election to the Senate in 2018, Montgomery served four years in the House beginning in 2014. Montgomery currently serves in the Senate as Vice Chair for the Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government and Transportation. Montgomery continues to live in Lawton with his wife, Kylee, their daughter, and two dogs. Kylee teaches in Lawton Public Schools.” Bio Andi Janoe Andi Janoe is currently serving as the MCEC Director of Implementation to deliver services and resources to students, parents, and school professionals who serve military-connected children. As an active duty military spouse and parent to two military children, the information she has learned personally while working for MCEC for the past four years has been invaluable. Additionally, as an educator and school counselor with over ten years of experience in five different school systems, she is passionate about providing support to fellow educators. She is committed to leading the way forward so that when a parent or educator thinks about academic and social-emotional transitions for military children, they think of the Military Child Education Coalition as their go-to organization for resources, education, and support.
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IN THIS PODCAST: Have you ever been wounded by someone in your life? It can be very difficult to forgive this person. It can make our life seem very miserable with bitterness and regret. But the Word of God shows us a way from woundedness to healing through the grace of forgiveness. In this homily, Fr. Juventius Andrade, C.Ss.R. inspires us with the beauty of the gift of forgiving someone from your heart. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Fr. Juventius Andrade, C.Ss.R. has trained many Redemptorists in the seminary as a Scripture professor. He also served in the General Government of the Redemptorist Congregation as a General Consultor for two successive terms. Fr. Juvy, as we fondly call him, is presently serving as an Ordinary Provincial Councillor for the Redemptorist Province of Bangalore. This Novena Sermon originally premiered on 19th June 2020
IN THIS PODCAST: We live in an age of different forms of terrorism. There is a kind of terrorism that exists within the home - domestic violence. The victims of the violence are often forced to suffer silently, trapped behind the veil of a holy marriage, public reputations or social appearances. In this homily, Fr. Juventius Andrade, C.Ss.R. gives very practical pointers to urge these survivors to stand up for their rights while inviting the victimizers to seek help. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Fr. Juventius Andrade, C.Ss.R. has trained many Redemptorists in the seminary as a Scripture professor. He also served in the General Government of the Redemptorist Congregation as a General Consultor for two successive terms. Fr. Juvy, as we fondly call him, is presently serving as an Ordinary Provincial Councillor for the Redemptorist Province of Bangalore. This Novena Sermon originally premiered on 22nd June 2020
IN THIS PODCAST: How comfortable am I with the reality of ageing and dying? Very often, there are fears associated with these realities, which remain unnamed and unfaced. They are fears with regards to our image of God, unresolved questions about life and our loved ones. In this homily, Fr. Juventius Andrade, C.Ss.R., helps us to see that, no matter how young or old we may be, a healthy approach to death helps us to have a healthy approach to life as well. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Fr. Juventius Andrade, C.Ss.R. has trained many Redemptorists in the seminary as a Scripture professor. He also served in the General Government of the Redemptorist Congregation as a General Consultor for two successive terms. Fr. Juvy, as we fondly call him, is presently serving as an Ordinary Provincial Councillor for the Redemptorist Province of Bangalore. This Novena Sermon originally premiered on 26th June 2020
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PUSHING VALUE-FOR-VALUE Thank you to the executive producers of Bowl After Bowl Episode 90, FarmerTodd and Fletcher! These credits are real and can be used on places like LinkedIn and IMDB. Bowl After Bowl is a value-for-value podcast. Every episode is publicly available free of charge to all the bowlers out there with no commercials! But if you want us to keep passing you the bowl every Tokin' Tuesday, you'll have to stop being a mooch and return some of the value you receive. Check outthe Bowl After Bowl Donate page to see all the ways you can share your treasure, or email spencer@bowlafterbowl.com or laurien@bowlafterbowl.com with your stories, ISOs, art, jingles, etc. Tune in to Hog Story every Monday at 7:30 PM Central to hear Fletch and Carolyn Blaney, our next Bowls with Buds guest. Be sure to tune in this Friday, July 2, 2021 at 9 PM Central and ask her questions or say high in a voicemail at (816) 607-3663. Voicemails are a great way to return value! Thank you Illuminadia for joining us in the bowl for our last installment of Bowls with Buds and be sure to check out her show Origins of Things and Stuff, co-hosted by the one and onlyNick The Rat. Also, check out Dame DuhLaurien's guest appearance on Behind the Sch3m3s Episode 50: Milk Tap Noosepaper. Thank you Boo-Bury and Lavish for so graciously hosting the Wolf Cub and I! CRYPTO COGNIZANCE The Bowl After Bowl Sphinx tribe is lit, so jump in there, boost, and stream some sats! Get a node and get ready to hop in on SirSpencer's ring of fire...once he figures out this port situation. TOP THREE 33 Two brothers from Lansing, Illinois were held in jail for 33 days in Florida, the max amount of days someone can be held in Florida without any charges. Because of the arrest, one of the brothers lost his college athletic scholarship. The New York Times launched the climate change concept 33 years ago with the article "Global Warming Has Begun..." after a NASA scientist testified the greenhouse effect had been detected. Coincidentally, June 25th was the 33rd anniversary of the 1988 Yellowstone National Park fires. 33 train cars derailed in Eastern Pennsylvania. Luckily, no one was injured and there were no hazardous spills. THE COTINUING COOF 33 new cases reported in: Hawaii, Smith County (Texas) 33 people in isolation in Barbados 33 deaths reported: Egypt D.C. will give you a $51 Visa gift card if you bring someone to get a COVID jab -- and you can take advantage of the offer 11 times! According to compound annual growth rate, the in vitro fertilization market will be worth $33 billion by 2028. WEED If you live in New Mexico and are over the age of 21, you can AS OF TODAY, (Tokin' Tuesday, June 29, 2021) you may now possess up to two ounces of nug, 16 grams of extracts, 800 milligrams of edibles and start growing your own weed -- no more than 6 mature and 6 immature plants per person or 12 and 12 in a household -- thanks to NM's Cannabis Regulation Act. New Mexicans will still have to wait until April 1, 2022 to buy and sell weed from a dispensary, however. Another happening today on this tasty Tuesday was the Mexican Supreme Court mandating the Health Department to begin issuing permits to citizens older than 18 who wish to grow or possess personal use amounts of weed, though commercial activities remain illegal. In 2009, Mexico decriminalized possession under 5 grams and in 2018, the Court determined federal prohibition was unconstitutional, giving lawmakers until April 30th to enact legislation to regulate adult use. Unfortunately, House and Senate lawmakers did not agree on a plan before the deadline. Yesterday (Monday, June 28, 2021), the Supreme Court decided not to hear Standing Akimbo, a Denver-based medical marijuana dispensary's, challenge against Internal Revenue Code Section 280E which prohibits tax deductions for the "trafficking of Controlled Substances." After the decision, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his legal opinion that, "A prohibition on intrastate use or cultivation of marijuana may no longer be necessary or proper to support the Federal Government's piecemeal approach." Last Thursday, Governor Jared Polis signed House Bill 21-1317 into law, requiring the Colorado School of Public Health (made up of University of Colorado, Colorado State University, and the University of Northern Colorado) to "do a systematic review of the scientific research related to the possible physical and mental health effects of high-potency THC marijuana and concentrates" before creating a scientific review council to study the findings and make recommendations to lawmakers. After this recommendation is made, the Colorado School of Public Health will produce a public education campaign about the effects of high-potency THC on mental health and the developing brain. Citizens limiting patients to 8 grams of concentrates per purchase, down from the previous 40 gram limit, and capping patients aged 18 to 20 to 2 grams per purchase. Each transaction is logged and seed-to-sale traceability will prevent patients from purchasing more at another dispensary on the same day. Manufacturers now must include warnings on concentrate packages as well as serving size guidance. More rules were created for patients between the ages of 18 and 20 such as acquiring two doctor recommendations who conduct more thorough consultations. All patients will have their mental health history assessed before recommendations are provided now. Of course, there is still good reason for folks to want to become a registered medical patient in Colorado: the excise tax for card-carrying patients is 2.9% while everyone else pays 15%. As you may recall from previous episodes of Bowl After Bowl, 54% of South Dakotans voted in favor of both recreational and medical marijuana initiatives on their November 2020 ballot. Governor Kristi Noem however opposed the will of the people and facilitated litigation in February 2021 to strike Amendment A (the recreational initiative) down as unconstitutional. The Judge of the state's Sixth Judicial Circuit Court ruled the measure violates state requirements for ballot measures to cover only one topic and revises rather than amends the state Constitution, which should not permit it to move forward. Last Friday, State Court Administrator Greg Sattizahn announced that the South Dakota Supreme Court will not issue a ruling on Amendment A before the proposed July 1st deadline. Medical cannabis, however, becomes legal in South Dakota as of July 1st, but state officials won't be ready to distribute medical cards until the fall. Eight strains were recalled by the Arizona Department of Health Services due to possible salmonella and aspergillus (mold) contamination. Please keep the poo poo germs off of the good good. In 2014, Washington, D.C. legalized possession and home cultivation under a voter initiative, but Congress used a budget rider to prevent the local government from using its resources to create a transparent, licensed commercial sales program. Under the proposed Fiscal Year 2022 Financial Services and General Government spending bill, which includes provisions relating to the District of Columbia's budget, the House Appropriations Committee omitted the rider and added language to create limited protections for banking institutions providing services to state-licensed cannabusinesses. However, this rider has been excluded two years in a row and wound up being added back into the final package. FIRST TIME I EVER #FTIE Bowlers called in to tell us about the first time they ever lied to their parents, and we want to hear from YOU before next Tokin' Tuesday about the first time YOU ever came in a room. Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling. #FDLGB Remember the 10 record-breaking babies born in South Africa we mentioned in Bowl After Bowl Episode 86: Looking at Tom Thumb? Turns out, the South African woman was lying and was not even pregnant. She was taken in for psychiatric evaluation under which the paper that originally broke the story doubled down and claimed the government was trying to cover up medical negligence by holding her. The editor has since written an apology. A man arrested in Mexico was believed to be a runaway fugitive wanted for killing a husband and wife while drunk driving. Turns out, he gave a fake name but had warrants out for his arrest in Arkansas and Missouri. Two Arizona women are in custody after stealing more than $100,000 worth of merchandise from Walmart by making it appear their items had been paid for in the self-checkout using the Walmart Pay app on their phones. As previously mentioned on Bowl After Bowl Episode 69: Some Holy Somebody, FBI agents went digging for a fabled cache of gold in Pennsylvania. Of course, the FBI never publicly explained why they went treasure hunting other than excavating "what evidence suggested may have been a cultural heritage site." According to court documents unsealed last Thursday (June 24, 2021), an agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize the gold, which he claims was one or more tons stolen during the Civil War. He applied for the seizure warrant to avoid seeking permission from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to excavate the site which he believed would then claim the gold for the state and cause a costly legal battle. The agent also revealed that in 2013, a legislative staffer acting on behalf of others in state government offered Finders Keepers USA, a father-son duo of treasure hunters, a state permit to dig in return for three gold bars or 10% of the findings. No one has been charged in connection with the case and federal prosecutors say the case is closed. A customer at a New Hampshire restaurant told his bartender, "Don't spend it all in one place," prompting her to look at the check and notice a $16,000 tip. The tip was left on June 12th but the restaurant owner didn't share the story until June 21 because he wanted to see if the payment would actually go through first. Eight bartenders split the tip. After failing to comply with multiple stop-work orders along with an order to remove features around her Flintstones-themed house in the San Francisco suburbs of Hillsborough, the town took owner Florence Fang to court. But she countersued and reached a settlement, agreeing to apply for building permits while the town reviews and approves a survey of landscaping improvements. She also received $125,000 from the town to drop the case. Living With the Land is a slow-moving boat ride at Disney World that takes visitors through the amusement park's greenhouses. It's also the second longest of all the attractions. This lady must have been bored because she jumped off and on the boat four times and tried to steal a cucumber. One family has received 16 calls from their missing grandparents' landline -- from inside Champlain Towers South condo which collapsed last Thursday in Florida. Two men sunbathing naked on a remote beach south of Sydney, Australia fled into the Royal National Park after being startled by deer and got lost. After authorities came to their rescue, they were fined $760 for breaking COVID-19 rules. A teenage girl was rescued from a former bank vault inside a New York clothing store.
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Michael is joined by Stephen Anthony, Chief Economist at Macroeconomics, to discuss the fiscal aspect of tonight’s budget and whether he thinks Australia’s debt will ever be repaid? Macroeconomics reports that ‘General Government net debt is now expected to rise to around $670 billion (32 percent of GDP) in 2020 – 21 and continue rising to around $959 billion (42 percent of GDP) by 2024 - 25.’ ‘Whilst the Australian Government had significantly less public debt in GDP terms than most developed countries, that situation is rapidly changing.’ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Katie Neer is the Head of Industry Affairs at Lantern, an e-commerce marketplace that facilitates cannabis home delivery. Headquartered in Boston, MA, Lantern currently operates in Massachusetts, Michigan, and Colorado. Prior to joining Lantern, Katie was in private practice and gained in-house cannabis experience as the Director of Government Affairs at Acreage Holdings, a multi-state-operator. She was Chair of the New York Medical Cannabis Industry Association. Katie also previously served as Assistant Secretary for General Government and Financial Services in the New York State Governor's Office. At the Governor's office, Katie was a member of the state operations team overseeing policy and operations for six agencies: the Department of Financial Services (DFS); the State Insurance Fund; the Department of State; the Department of Tax and Finance; the Office of General Services; and the Gaming Commission. During her time in the Governor's Office, Katie was responsible for negotiating and overseeing the implementation of several key policy initiatives, including Paid Family Leave, Ride-Share, and the DFS's cybersecurity regulations. Katie was listed as an attorney on The Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” List for Administrative and Regulatory law in 2021. In 2018, she was profiled as an Albany 40 Under 40 Rising Star. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood in New York. A member of the New York State Bar, she received her J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law, her M.P.A. from Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, and her B.A. in political science from SUNY Albany, where she earned the 2009 SUNY Chancellor's Award of Excellence and played Division I Lacrosse. Help us grow! Leave us a rating and review - it's the best way to bring new listeners to the show. Don't forget to subscribe! Have a suggestion, or want to chat with Jim? Email him at Jim@ThePoliticalLife.net Follow The Political Life on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter for weekly updates.
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Here's one thing this week to watch in city hall... a presentation in the General Government & Social Services Committee on the Mayoral Administration's proposal to create a new Department within LFUCG - the Department of Housing Advocacy. Watch this presentation live during the General Government & Social Services Committee Committee on Tuesday, February 9th, at 1:00pm. Why should you care? Lexington's linked housing crises - affordable housing shortages, rising homelessness, and evictions - have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis. Housing prices are rising across Lexington; homelessness cases pose massive local public health challenges; and, despite a national COVID-related eviction moratorium, evictions are still a major issue in Lexington. These problems are rooted in a history of racialized housing policies that have exacerbated income and many other inequalities among non-white communities. Local government and policymakers can have a significant influence on creating more equitable housing policies. If you care about any of these housing issues, you should pay attention to this conversation. Plus: That thing, last week - How does the Detention Center cooperate with ICE? - and more updates from city hall. Read more about these issues and more at civiclex.org
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Several members of Congress are awaiting answers from the Small Business Administration. They want to know whether SBA is providing pandemic spending data requested by the Government Accountability Office. GAO got a specific oversight duty when Congress appropriated hundreds of billions of dollars to help small businesses through the shutdown. Joining the Federal Drive with more, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL).
FM #288 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 288 in the series. This session shares the Franklin, MA Finance Committee meeting held on Thursday, May 28, 2020. The meeting was conducted via conference bridge to adhere to the ‘social distancing’ requirements of this pandemic period. This is the fourth and final budget hearing for the Fiscal Year 2021 (FY 21). The Finance Committee Chair Micheal Dufour opens the meeting. Each person who speaks is announced. The show notes contain links to the meeting packet and to the individual documents referenced. The departmental budgets for Human Services, Culture and Recreation, alson with that of General Government categories are reviewed. The budget proposal is voted on to recommend for the Town Council. Capital Program Adjustments along with Municipal Borrowing Authorization are reviewed and voted upon The recording runs about two hours (2:00) , so let’s listen to the Finance Committee budget hearing of June 4. -------------- Agenda document https://www.franklinmatters.org/2020/06/franklin-ma-finance-committee-budget.html Additional info https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/franklinma/files/uploads/fincomm_additional_info_updated.pdf Budget doc and Overview memo https://www.franklinma.gov/town-budget/files/fy21-town-administrator-budget-message FY 2021 budget documents https://www.franklinma.gov/town-budget/pages/fy2021-budget-materials School budget summary https://www.franklinps.net/sites/franklinmaps/files/uploads/02._executive_summaryrevised.pdf Schools FY 21 recommended budget https://www.franklinps.net/sites/franklinmaps/files/uploads/fy21_sc_approved_budget_overview.pdf School Budget page https://www.franklinps.net/district/school-district-budget/pages/fy-2021-budget -------------- We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm). This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help. How can you help? - If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighbors - If you don't like something here, please let me know Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening. For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/ If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission. I hope you enjoy! ------------------ You can also subscribe and listen to Franklin Matters audio on iTunes or your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "Franklin Matters"
I am very thrilled to be doing a show on Earth Day 50. Our guest for the evening is KrisAnne Hall, and we're going to read a little something together as the States and the General Government continue to play tug of war over declared Emergency Powers and Money. A little bit of exposing communism, a few calls, some personal chatter and baby talk and the evening was a well-rounded one! Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/YJWo4HFg9Xs Check out Kheyleve, our All-American, All-Natural Skincare Sponsor, and use promo code 'FRANKLY' at checkout: https://www.kheyleve.com/ Sponsor the Show: Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/QuiteFrankly One-Time Gift: http://www.paypal.me/QuiteFranklyLive SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/quitefrankly BTC: 1EafWUDPHY6y6HQNBjZ4kLWzQJFnE5k9PK LTC: LRs6my7scMxpTD5j7i8WkgBgxpbjXABYXX ETH: 0x80cd26f708815003F11Bd99310a47069320641fC Episodes On Demand: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/301gcES iTunes: http://apple.co/2dMURMq SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/2dTMD13 Google Play: https://bit.ly/2SMi1SF Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2tI5THI BitChute: https://bit.ly/2vNSMFq Official WebSite: http://www.QuiteFrankly.tv DISCORD Hangout: https://bit.ly/2FpkS11 Quite Frankly Subreddit: https://bit.ly/2HdvzEC Steemit: https://bit.ly/2FrNkyi Twitter: @PoliticalOrgy MINDS: @QuiteFrankly Live On: Periscope: https://bit.ly/2FmsOzQ Twitch: https://bit.ly/2TGAeB6 YouTube: https://bit.ly/2exPzj4 DLive: https://bit.ly/2PpY0k0
In the first in this weekly English language series with a focus on Polish History, Alex and Alina talk to Dr. Pawel Markiewicz about his research into German/Ukrainian Collaboration in the General Government during WW2.
Tom Duggan welcomes Neil Perry back to Paying Attention. They cover a variety of topics of great concern in Methuen. Our host Tom Duggan of the Valley Patriot and Neil discuss: Tom and Neil talk about the TMF dinners Tom talks about the proud sponsors of the Mayor’s update Neil is still at Raytheon through December 19th Neil is planning to have a meeting about the current Methuen superior officers’ contract Who is going to be Neil’s chief of staff? How is the transition process going so far? Neil is looking to maximize the use of the Searles Building Neil would like to bring other city employees to guest on the podcast Neil talks about the transition questionnaires he sent out to all city departments Neil compliments Tom on his vocabulary Would Tom consider moving to Methuen? Neil plans to develop a list of priorities for Methuen Neil met with the Mayor of Haverhill and they talked about the tree planting program Neil is setting up 4 transition committees: General Government, Parks, Recreation and Greenspace, Community, Culture and Neighborhoods, and Business and Economic Development You can contact Neil at npiriish1213@gmail.com Neil wants to be judged based on his accomplishments Tom and Neil talk about the TMF Christmas night event Neil fields a question from a live listener Neil recommends the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Neil commits to being involved in the cannabis discussion All that and much more on this week’s episode of The Paying Attention Podcast! For more information, check out latest edition of the Valley Patriot or www.ValleyPatriot.com. The Paying Attention! Podcast is recorded each week at the Studio 21 Podcast Café and is hosted on the United Podcast Network.
It's Thursday evening and tonight we are going to be bouncing around with some headlines, some timeline management, and some off-the-beaten-path kind of stuff -- a Mysterious Hotel which finds itself at the center of the Spygate Saga? Sign me up! And then a question for the audience as to how YOU would clean the agents of foreign ideology out of the General Government and neutralize our corrupt Media? This was an episode marked by tremendously bad internet connectivity issues. I hope the On-Demand experience is better than the live experience. Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/ayyK5y_gIHg Sponsor the Show: Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/QuiteFrankly One-Time Gift: http://www.paypal.me/QuiteFranklyLive SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/quitefrankly BTC: 1EafWUDPHY6y6HQNBjZ4kLWzQJFnE5k9PK LTC: LRs6my7scMxpTD5j7i8WkgBgxpbjXABYXX ETH: 0x80cd26f708815003F11Bd99310a47069320641fC Episodes On Demand: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/301gcES iTunes: http://apple.co/2dMURMq SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/2dTMD13 Google Play: https://bit.ly/2SMi1SF Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2tI5THI BitChute: https://bit.ly/2vNSMFq Official WebSite: http://www.QuiteFranklyPodcast.com DISCORD Hangout: https://bit.ly/2FpkS11 Quite Frankly Subreddit: https://bit.ly/2HdvzEC Steemit: https://bit.ly/2FrNkyi Twitter: @PoliticalOrgy MINDS: @QuiteFrankly Live On: Periscope: https://bit.ly/2FmsOzQ Twitch: https://bit.ly/2TGAeB6 YouTube: https://bit.ly/2exPzj4 DLive: https://bit.ly/2PpY0k0
The Holocaust The Holocaust is the bleakest, blackest, most disturbing moment in our human story. It involved the systematic murder of millions of Jews, minority and vulnerable groups by the Nazis during their reign of terror in Europe in the 1940s. To understand how such crimes could be committed, historians have been forced to engage with this painful past. Few books have laid the crimes and consequences of the Holocaust as bare as Professor Mary Fulbrook’s Reckonings: legacies of Nazi persecutions and the quest for justice (2018). Fulbrook said that she was driven to write the book – which identifies the crimes and traces their effects on the generations that followed – by ‘an enduring sense of injustice’, that the vast majority of those who perpetrated the Holocaust, or who made it possible, evaded responsibility for their crimes. The Wolfson History Prize Last month Reckonings was awarded the Wolfson History Prize, one of the UK’s most prestigious history awards. The judges called it ‘masterly’; a work that ‘explores the shifting boundaries and structures of memory.’ In this special Wolfson History Prize episode of Travels Through Time we talk to Professor Fulbrook about Reckonings, a book that she wrote filled with a sense of ‘moral outrage’. In a twist on our usual format, we examine the Nazi genocide through three human interactions with three crime scenes: a ghetto, a labour camp and an extermination camp. Scene One: Melita Maschman looks at the Litzmannstadt (Łódź) ghetto in the incorporated Warthegau area of Poland, now part of the Greater German Reich, and later reflects on it in her 1963 memoirs. Scene Two: Mielec, southern Poland, part of the General Government under the Third Reich. Perpetrators include Walter Thormeyer and Rudolf Zimmermann, later sentenced in West and East Germany respectively; and implications for their families. Scene Three: Oświęcim (Auschwitz), c. 1943-5, seen through the eyes of a schoolteacher, Marianne B., as recounted in her 1999 memoirs. More about Reckonings at Oxford University Press. Presenter: Peter Moore Guest: Professor Mary Fulbrook Producer: Maria Nolan Read More from History Today Mensturation and the Holocaust by Jo-Ann Owusu Poland and Holocaust History by Cressida Trew Hitler and the Holocaust by Alan Farmer
https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com A couple of listeners sent two very good questions over the last week. The first asked if the "guarantee clause" in the Constitution authorizes the general government to use force in the event that a State alters its government from a republican form. The second wondered if the founding generation had differing views on the power of the general government in relation to slavery in the territories. Both questions seem unrelated, but they are, in fact, fundamental to antebellum constitutional disputes. I discuss both in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brion-mcclanahan/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brion-mcclanahan/support
Whether it is from his reputation of being a "caucus of one," as a MT Senator/Legislator in supporting MT Tribal issues based upon principle versus prevailing views; from his role as a three-term Chippewa Cree Tribal Leader; or as an Internationally Renowned Champion Grass Dancer, whose talent made him a prominent household name throughout Indian Country; Senator Jonathan Windy Boy is recognized as a strategic visionary, whose motivational, self-sacrificing, and influential voice supports Tribes and addresses Tribal issues/concerns across the nation. Senator Windy Boy has initiated, led, and succeeded in influencing legislative support and laws addressing Tribal issues throughout Montana. Senator Windy Boy also supported SR9, the "Idle No More Movement'' in Canada that is supported by Montana and went Global. Throughout his career, Senator Windy Boy has served on many Regional and National Committees in various capacities and has helped establish many organizations from the ground up. When Senator Windy Boy termed out in the Montana Senate in 2016, he ran for the House District 32 seat. After winning re-election in 2018 Representative Windy Boy got appointed to the House Appropriations Committee, Joint Sub-committee on General Government. Only 22 House members have this distinct honor. Join us for "A Cup of Joe" to find out what YOU can do to help The Human Solution International accomplish our mission of ending cannabis prohibition to ensure civil and basic human rights. Wednesday Nights 8:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM PDT
On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast we explore what became known as the Watergate "Road Map." In October, Politico reported that Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell granted a request to unseal a large chunk of the “Road Map” that a federal grand jury in Washington sent to the House Judiciary Committee in early 1974 as part of the Watergate investigation. The petition to the court was made by our guest today, Geoff Shepard, author and former Nixon White House official who served as Associate Director for General Government on the Domestic Council, and deputy to Nixon’s defense attorney Fred Bruzhardt. Mr. Shepard is the author of two books about Watergate, “The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President: Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy” and "The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down." Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.
Wyofile, "Revenue report erases Wyo’s general government budget deficit" by KHOL Jackson
The National Archives and The Richard Nixon Foundation present a Richard Nixon Legacy Forum The Greatest Comeback Richard Nixon and the 1968 Election President Dwight Eisenhower’s Vice President, Richard Nixon, lost the 1960 Presidential election to John Kennedy and then the California Governorship to Edmund “Pat” Brown in 1962. At a dramatic post-election press conference, he announced his complete withdrawal from politics, but he couldn’t stay away. He campaigned tirelessly for the 1964 GOP nominee, Barry Goldwater, as well as for dozens of Republican candidates in the 1966 mid-term elections. His subsequent winning of the Republican nomination in 1968 is the stuff of political legends. Filmed at the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives Building in Washington DC on September 21, 2018. PANELISTS: Annelise G. Anderson Dr. Anderson and her husband Martin were domestic issues advisors and researchers in Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign. From 1981 to 1983, Dr. Anderson was Associate Director for Economics and Government with the Office of Management and Budget, where she was responsible for the budgets of the departments of Treasury, Justice, Commerce, Transportation, and HUD, as well as for 40 other agencies. Today, Dr. Anderson is an economist and research fellow emerita at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Patrick J. Buchanan After working at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Mr. Buchanan joined Richard Nixon at his law office in New York City, campaigning with him in 1966 and working as a senior political aide on the 1968 campaign. He served on the White House staff as an advisor and speechwriter for President Nixon throughout his presidency. Mr. Buchanan is also a bestselling author, television commentator, and three-time presidential candidate. Dwight L. Chapin Mr. Chapin served as a field representative in Richard Nixon’s 1962 campaign for California Governor and was personal aide to him during the 1968 presidential campaign. Mr. Chapin served as appointments secretary to President Nixon, and later as deputy assistant, overseeing scheduling, advance, and the White House television office. In 1972, he served as the acting chief of protocol on President Nixon’s historic trip to China. Following his government service, Chapin had a successful career in business. Recently, he oversaw the renovation of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library which re-opened in Fall 2016. Kenneth L. Khachigian Mr. Khachigian spent his last summer of law school working on the 1968 Nixon campaign. After graduation, he joined President Nixon’s White House staff as a speechwriter. He also worked with the former President on his Memoirs while in San Clemente. He has served as a senior advisor, strategist and campaign manager for several gubernatorial, senate and presidential campaigns. In 1981, President Reagan summoned Mr. Khachigian back to the White House as the head of his speechwriting office. Geoffrey C. Shepard (Moderator) Mr. Shepard was a White House Fellow at the Department of Treasury in the Nixon administration. He then joined the Domestic Council at the White House as staff assistant to the President and then as Associate Director for General Government. He has been an attorney in the insurance industry for over three decades, is a noted author, and has helped produced over three dozen Nixon Legacy Forums sponsored by the Nixon Foundation and National Archives.
All hope is not lost for federal civilian employees looking for a pay raise in 2019. The Senate Appropriations Committee has cleared the Financial Services and General Government bill with a recommendation an increase in pay by 1.9 percent next fiscal year.
Two bonus episodelets on the same day? Say it ain't so... This bonus episodelet was a segment cut for time from Episode 028 - Oregon, Have You Lost Your Mind? Brett and Rob discuss Oregon's Senate Joint Memorial 201, which is a resolution begging the General Government to ban firearms based upon scary-looking components, ban bump stocks, ban "ghost guns", expand the definition of firearms to include non-firearms, and ban our universal right to defend ourselves in the manner we choose. Brett and Rob completely destroy the Memorial using logic, which is in short supply in the Oregon legislature. The really funny thing is, the state of Oregon could choose to ban all of these things within the state, but once again they pass the buck because they know that if they enacted these measures, it would cause 2/3 of the state to secede. Secession is a beautiful thing...
History is more than just trivia. It is more than just names or places or events. Because of that it is important to dig deeper in order to find the answers that we are looking for, in order to truly understand and draw from that knowledge. It is about cultivating a greater comprehension so that we are capable of utilizing the lessons of our past as building blocks for the future. For this episode of Fragile Freedom we are doing something a little different. Before our next episode on the Battle in Congress, we are going back to the source: James Madison's Speech which presents his Amendments to the House of Representatives. Join host Wyatt McIntyre in this extra long episode between episodes where he presents it in its entirety. --- I am sorry to be accessary to the loss of a single moment of time by the House. If I had been indulged in my motion, and we had gone into a Committee of the whole, I think we might have rose and resumed the consideration of other business before this time; that is, so far as it depended upon what I proposed to bring forward. As that mode seems not to give satisfaction, I will withdraw the motion, and move you, sir, that a select committee be appointed to consider and report such amendments as are proper for Congress to propose to the Legislatures of the several States, conformably to the fifth article of the constitution. I will state my reasons why I think it proper to propose amendments, and state the amendments themselves, so far as I think they ought to be proposed. If I thought I could fulfil the duty which I owe to myself and my constituents, to let the subject pass over in silence, I most certainly should not trespass upon the indulgence of this House. But I cannot do this, and am therefore compelled to beg a patient hearing to what I have to lay before you. And I do most sincerely believe, that if Congress will devote but one day to this subject, so far as to satisfy the public that we do not disregard their wishes, it will have a salutary influence on the public councils, and prepare the way for a favorable reception of our future measures. It appears to me that this House is bound by every motive of prudence, not to let the first session pass over without proposing to the State Legislatures some things to be incorporated into the constitution, that will render it as acceptable to the whole people of the United States, as it has been found acceptable to a majority of them. I wish, among other reasons why something should be done, that those who have been friendly to the adoption of this constitution may have the opportunity of proving to those who were opposed to it that they were as sincerely devoted to liberty and a Republican Government, as those who charged them with wishing the adoption of this constitution in order to lay the foundation of an aristocracy or despotism. It will be a desirable thing to extinguish from the bosom of every member of the community, any apprehensions that there are those among his countrymen who wish to deprive them of the liberty for which they valiantly fought and honorably bled. And if there are amendments desired of such a nature as will not injure the constitution, and they can be ingrafted so as to give satisfaction to the doubting part of our fellow-citizens, the friends of the Federal Government will evince that spirit of deference and concession for which they have hitherto been distinguished. It cannot be a secret to the gentlemen in this House, that, notwithstanding the ratification of this system of Government by eleven of the thirteen United States, in some cases unanimously, in others by large majorities; yet still there is a great number of our constituents who are dissatisfied with it; among whom are many respectable for their talents and patriotism, and respectable for the jealousy they have for their liberty, which, though mistaken in its object, is honorable in its motive. There is a great body of the people falling under this description, who at present feel much inclined to join their support to the cause of Federalism, if they were satisfied on this one point. We ought not to disregard their inclination, but, on principles of amity and moderation, conform to their wishes and expressly declare the great rights of mankind secured under this constitution. The acceptance which our fellow-citizens show under the Government, calls upon us for a like return of moderation. But perhaps there is a stronger motive than this for our going into a consideration of the subject. It is to provide those securities for liberty which are required by a part of the community: I allude in a particular manner to those two States that have not thought fit to throw themselves into the bosom of the Confederacy. It is a desirable thing, on our part as well as theirs, that a re-union should take place as soon as possible. I have no doubt, if we proceed to take those steps which would be prudent and requisite at this juncture, that in a short time we should see that disposition prevailing in those States which have not come in, that we have seen prevailing in those States which have embraced the constitution. But I will candidly acknowledge, that, over and above all these considerations, I do conceive that the constitution may be amended; that is to say, if all power is subject to abuse, that then it is possible the abuse of the powers of the General Government may be guarded against in a more secure manner than is now done, while no one advantage arising from the exercise of that power shall be damaged or endangered by it. We have in this way something to gain, and, if we proceed with caution, nothing to lose. And in this case it is necessary to proceed with caution; for while we feel all these inducements to go into a revisal of the constitution, we must feel for the constitution itself, and make that revisal a moderate one. I should be unwilling to see a door opened for a reconsideration of the whole structure of the Government — for a re-consideration of the principles and the substance of the powers given; because I doubt, if such a door were opened, we should be very likely to stop at that point which would be safe to the Government itself. But I do wish to see a door opened to consider, so far as to incorporate those provisions for the security of rights, against which I believe no serious objection has been made by any class of our constituents: such as would be likely to meet with the concurrence of two-thirds of both Houses, and the approbation of three-fourths of the State Legislatures. I will not propose a single alteration which I do not wish to see take place, as intrinsically proper in itself, or proper because it is wished for by a respectable number of my fellow-citizens; and therefore I shall not propose a single alteration but is likely to meet the concurrence required by the constitution. There have been objections of various kinds made against the constitution. Some were levelled against its structure because the President was without a council; because the Senate, which is a legislative body, had judicial powers in trials on impeachments; and because the powers of that body were compounded in other respects, in a manner that did not correspond with a particular theory; because it grants more power than is supposed to be necessary for every good purpose, and controls the ordinary powers of the State Governments. I know some respectable characters who opposed this Government on these grounds; but I believe that the great mass of the people who opposed it, disliked it because it did not contain effectual provisions against encroachments on particular rights, and those safeguards which they have been long accustomed to have interposed between them and the magistrate who exercises the sovereign power; nor ought we to consider them safe, while a great number of our fellow-citizens think these securities necessary. It is a fortunate thing that the objection to the Government has been made on the ground I stated, because it will be practicable, on that ground, to obviate the objection, so far as to satisfy the public mind that their liberties will be perpetual, and this without endangering any part of the constitution, which is considered as essential to the existence of the Government by those who promoted its adoption. The amendments which have occurred to me, proper to be recommended by Congress to the State Legislatures, are these: First, That there be prefixed to the constitution a declaration, that all power is originally rested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That Government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right of acquiring and using property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their Government, whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purposes of its institution. Secondly, That in article 1st, section 2, clause 3, these words be struck out, to wit: "The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each State shall have at least one Representative, and until such enumeration shall be made;" and that in place thereof be inserted these words, to wit: "After the first actual enumeration, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number amounts to —, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that the number shall never be less than —, nor more than —, but each State shall, after the first enumeration, have at least two Representatives; and prior thereto." Thirdly, That in article 1st, section 6, clause 1, there be added to the end of the first sentence, these words, to wit: "But no law varying the compensation last ascertained shall operate before the next ensuing election of Representatives." Fourthly, That in article 1st, section 9, between clauses 3 and 4, be inserted these clauses, to wit: The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed. The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable. The people shall not be restrained from peaceably assembling and consulting for their common good; nor from applying to the Legislature by petitions, or remonstrances, for redress of their grievances. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner; nor at any time, but in a manner warranted by law. No person shall be subject, except in cases of impeachment, to more than one punishment or one trial for the same offence; nor shall be compelled to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor be obliged to relinquish his property, where it may be necessary for public use, without a just compensation. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. The rights of the people to be secured in their persons; their houses, their papers, and their other property, from all unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated by warrants issued without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, or not particularly describing the places to be searched, or the persons or things to be seized. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, to be informed of the cause and nature of the accusation, to be confronted with his accusers, and the witnesses against him; to have a compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence. The exceptions here or elsewhere in the constitution, made in favor of particular rights, shall not be so construed as to diminish the just importance of other rights retained by the people, or as to enlarge the powers delegated by the constitution; but either as actual limitations of such powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. Fifthly, That in article 1st, section 10, between clauses 1 and 2, be inserted this clause, to wit: No State shall violate the equal rights of conscience, or the freedom of the press, or the trial by jury in criminal cases. Sixthly, That, in article 3d, section 2, be annexed to the end of clause 2d, these words, to wit: But no appeal to such court shall be allowed where the value in controversy shall not amount to — dollars: nor shall any fact triable by jury, according to the course of common law, be otherwise re-examinable than may consist with the principles of common law. Seventhly, That in article 3d, section 2, the third clause be struck out, and in its place be inserted the clauses following, to wit: The trial of all crimes (except in cases of impeachments, and cases arising in the land or naval forces, or the militia when on actual service, in time of war or public danger) shall be by an impartial jury of freeholders of the vicinage, with the requisite of unanimity for conviction, of the right of challenge, and other accustomed requisites; and in all crimes punishable with loss of life or member, presentment or indictment by a grand jury shall be an essential preliminary, provided that in cases of crimes committed within any county which may be in possession of an enemy, or in which a general insurrection may prevail, the trial may by law be authorized in some other county of the same State, as near as may be to the seat of the offence. In cases of crimes committed not within any county, the trial may by law be in such county as the laws shall have prescribed. In suits at common law, between man and man, the trial by jury, as one of the best securities to the rights of the people, ought to remain inviolate. Eighthly, That immediately after article 6th, be inserted, as article 7th, the clauses following, to wit: The powers delegated by this constitution are appropriated to the departments to which they are respectively distributed: so that the legislative department shall never exercise the powers vested in the executive or judicial nor the executive exercise the powers vested in the legislative or judicial, nor the judicial exercise the powers vested in the legislative or executive departments. The powers not delegated by this constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively. Ninthly, That article 7th be numbered as article 8th. The first of these amendments relates to what may be called a bill of rights. I will own that I never considered this provision so essential to the federal constitution, as to make it improper to ratify it, until such an amendment was added; at the same time, I always conceived, that in a certain form, and to a certain extent, such a provision was neither improper nor altogether useless. I am aware, that a great number of the most respectable friends to the Government, and champions for republican liberty, have thought such a provision, not only unnecessary, but even improper; nay, I believe some have gone so far as to think it even dangerous. Some policy has been made use of, perhaps, by gentlemen on both sides of the question: I acknowledge the ingenuity of those arguments which were drawn against the constitution, by a comparison with the policy of Great Britain, in establishing a declaration of rights; but there is too great a difference in the case to warrant the comparison: therefore, the arguments drawn from that source were in a great measure inapplicable. In the declaration of rights which that country has established, the truth is, they have gone no farther than to raise a barrier against the power of the Crown; the power of the Legislature is left altogether indefinite. Although I know whenever the great rights, the trial by jury, freedom of the press, or liberty of conscience, come in question in that body, the invasion of them is resisted by able advocates, yet their Magna Charta does not contain any one provision for the security of those rights, respecting which the people of America are most alarmed. The freedom of the press and rights of conscience, those choicest privileges of the people, are unguarded in the British constitution. But although the case may be widely different, and it may not be thought necessary to provide limits for the legislative power in that country, yet a different opinion prevails in the United States. The people of many States have thought it necessary to raise barriers against power in all forms and departments of Government, and I am inclined to believe, if once bills of rights are established in all the States as well as the federal constitution, we shall find that although some of them are rather unimportant, yet, upon the whole, they will have a salutary tendency. It may be said, in some instances, they do no more than state the perfect equality of mankind. This, to be sure, is an absolute truth, yet it is not absolutely necessary to be inserted at the head of a constitution. In some instances they assert those rights which are exercised by the people in forming and establishing a plan of Government. In other instances, they specify those rights which are retained when particular powers are given up to be exercised by the Legislature. In other instances, they specify positive rights, which may seem to result from the nature of the compact. Trial by jury cannot be considered as a natural right, but a right resulting from a social compact which regulates the action of the community, but is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature. In other instances, they lay down dogmatic maxims with respect to the construction of the Government; declaring that the legislative, executive, and judicial branches shall be kept separate and distinct. Perhaps the best way of securing this in practice is, to provide such checks as will prevent the encroachment of the one upon the other. But whatever may be the form which the several States have adopted in making declarations in favor of particular rights, the great object in view is to limit and qualify the powers of Government, by excepting out of the grant of power those cases in which the Government ought not to act, or to act only in a particular mode. They point these exceptions sometimes against the abuse of the executive power, sometimes against the legislative, and, in some cases, against the community itself; or, in other words, against the majority in favor of the minority. In our Government it is, perhaps, less necessary to guard against the abuse in the executive department than any other; because it is not the stronger branch of the system, but the weaker. It therefore must be levelled against the legislative, for it is the most powerful, and most likely to be abused, because it is under the least control. Hence, so far as a declaration of rights can tend to prevent the exercise of undue power, it cannot be doubted but such declaration is proper. But I confess that I do conceive, that in a Government modified like this of the United States, the great danger lies rather in the abuse of the community than in the legislative body. The prescriptions in favor of liberty ought to be levelled against that quarter where the greatest danger lies, namely, that which possesses the highest prerogative of power. But it is not found in either the executive or legislative departments of Government, but in the body of the people, operating by the majority against the minority. It may be thought that all paper barriers against the power of the community are too weak to be worthy of attention. I am sensible they are not so strong as to satisfy gentlemen of every description who have seen and examined thoroughly the texture of such a defence; yet, as they have a tendency to impress some degree of respect for them, to establish the public opinion in their favor, and rouse the attention of the whole community, it may be one means to control the majority from those acts to which they might be otherwise inclined. It has been said, by way of objection to a bill of rights, by many respectable gentlemen out of doors, and I find opposition on the same principles likely to be made by gentlemen on this floor, that they are unnecessary articles of a Republican Government, upon the presumption that the people have those rights in their own hands, and that is the proper place for them to rest. It would be a sufficient answer to say, that this objection lies against such provisions under the State Governments, as well as under the General Government: and there are, I believe, but few gentlemen who are inclined to push their theory so far as to say that a declaration of rights in those cases is either ineffectual or improper. It has been said, that in the Federal Government they are unnecessary, because the powers are enumerated, and it follows, that all that are not granted by the constitution are retained; that the constitution is a call of powers, the great residuum being the rights of the people; and, therefore, a bill of rights cannot be so necessary as if the residuum was thrown into the hands of the Government. I admit that these arguments are not entirely without foundation; but they are not conclusive to the extent which has been supposed. It is true, the powers of the General Government are circumscribed, they are directed to particular objects; but even if Government keeps within those limits, it has certain discretionary powers with respect to the means, which may admit of abuse to a certain extent, in the same manner as the powers of the State Governments under their constitutions may to an indefinite extent; because in the constitution of the United States, there is a clause granting to Congress the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution all the powers vested in the Government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof; this enables them to fulfil every purpose for which the Government was established. Now, may not laws be considered necessary and proper by Congress, for it is for them to judge of the necessity and propriety to accomplish those special purposes which they may have in contemplation, which laws in themselves are neither necessary nor proper; as well as improper laws could be enacted by the State Legislatures, for fulfilling the more extended objects of those Governments. I will state an instance, which I think in point, and proves that this might be the case. The General Government has a right to pass all laws which shall be necessary to collect its revenue; the means for enforcing the collection are within the direction of the Legislature: may not general warrants be considered necessary for this purpose, as well as for some purposes which it was supposed at the framing of their constitutions the State Governments had in view? If there was reason for restraining the State Governments from exercising this power, there is like reason for restraining the Federal Government. It may be said, indeed it has been said, that a bill of rights is not necessary, because the establishment of this Government has not repealed those declarations of rights which are added to the several State constitutions; that those rights of the people, which had been established by the most solemn act, could not be annihilated by a subsequent act of that people, who meant, and declared at the head of the instrument, that they ordained and established a new system, for the express purpose of securing to themselves and posterity the liberties they had gained by an arduous conflict. I admit the force of this observation, but I do not look upon it to be conclusive. In the first place, it is too uncertain ground to leave this provision upon, if a provision is at all necessary to secure rights so important as many of those I have mentioned are conceived to be, by the public in general, as well as those in particular who opposed the adoption of this constitution. Besides, some States have no bills of rights, there are others provided with very defective ones, and there are others whose bills of rights are not only defective, but absolutely improper; instead of securing some in the full extent which republican principles would require, they limit them too much to agree with the common ideas of liberty. It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow, by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard urged against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution. It has been said, that it is unnecessary to load the constitution with this provision, because it was not found effectual in the constitution of the particular States. It is true, there are a few particular States in which some of the most valuable articles have not, at one time or other, been violated; but it does not follow but they may have, to a certain degree, a salutary effect against the abuse of power. If they are incorporated into the constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the constitution by the declaration of rights. Besides this security, there is a great probability that such a declaration in the federal system would be enforced; because the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty. I conclude, from this view of the subject, that it will be proper in itself, and highly politic, for the tranquillity of the public mind, and the stability of the Government, that we should offer something, in the form I have proposed, to be incorporated in the system of Government, as a declaration of the rights of the people. In the next place, I wish to see that part of the constitution revised which declares that the number of Representatives shall not exceed the proportion of one for every thirty thousand persons, and allows one Representative to every State which rates below that proportion. If we attend to the discussion of this subject, which has taken place in the State conventions, and even in the opinion of the friends to the constitution, an alteration here is proper. It is the sense of the people of America, that the number of Representatives ought to be increased, but particularly that it should not be left in the discretion of the Government to diminish them, below that proportion which certainly is in the power of the Legislature as the constitution now stands; and they may, as the population of the country increases, increase the House of Representatives to a very unwieldy degree. I confess I always thought this part of the constitution defective, though not dangerous; and that it ought to be particularly attended to whenever Congress should go into the consideration of amendments. There are several minor cases enumerated in my proposition, in which I wish also to see some alteration take place. That article which leaves it in the power of the Legislature to ascertain its own emolument, is one to which I allude. I do not believe this is a power which, in the ordinary course of Government, is likely to be abused. Perhaps of all the powers granted, it is least likely to abuse; but there is a seeming impropriety in leaving any set of men without control to put their hand into the public coffers, to take out money to put in their pockets; there is a seeming indecorum in such power, which leads me to propose a change. We have a guide to this alteration in several of the amendments which the different conventions have proposed. I have gone, therefore, so far as to fix it, that no law, varying the compensation shall operate until there is a change in the Legislature; in which case it cannot be for the particular benefit of those who are concerned in determining the value of the service. I wish also, in revising the constitution, we may throw into that section, which interdict the abuse of certain powers in the State Legislatures, some other provisions of equal, if not greater importance than those already made. The words, "No State shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law," &c. were wise and proper restrictions in the constitution. I think there is more danger of those powers being abused by the State Governments than by the Government of the United States. The same may be said of other powers which they possess, if not controlled by the general principle, that laws are unconstitutional which infringe the rights of the community. I should therefore wish to extend this interdiction, and add, as I have stated in the 5th resolution, that no State shall violate the equal right of conscience, freedom of the press, or trial by jury in criminal cases; because it is proper that every Government should be disarmed of powers which trench upon those particular rights. I know, in some of the State constitutions, the power of the Government is controlled by such a declaration; but others are not. I cannot see any reason against obtaining even a double security on those points; and nothing can give a more sincere proof of the attachment of those who opposed this constitution to these great and important rights, than to see them join in obtaining the security I have now proposed; because it must be admitted, on all hands, that the State Governments are as liable to attack the invaluable privileges as the General Government is, and therefore ought to be as cautiously guarded against. I think it will be proper, with respect to the judiciary powers, to satisfy the public mind of those points which I have mentioned. Great inconvenience has been apprehended to suitors from the distance they would be dragged to obtain justice in the Supreme Court of the United States, upon an appeal on an action for a small debt. To remedy this, declare that no appeal shall be made unless the matter in controversy amounts to a particular sum; this, with the regulations respecting jury trials in criminal cases, and suits at common law, it is to be hoped, will quiet and reconcile the minds of the people to that part of the constitution. I find, from looking into the amendments proposed by the State conventions, that several are particularly anxious that it should be declared in the constitution, that the powers not therein delegated should be reserved to the several States. Perhaps words which may define this more precisely than the whole of the instrument now does, may be considered as superflous. I admit they may be deemed unnecessary: but there can be no harm in making such a declaration, if gentlemen will allow that the fact is as stated. I am sure I understand it so, and do therefore propose it. These are the points on which I wish to see a revision of the constitution take place. How far they will accord with the sense of this body, I cannot take upon me absolutely to determine; but I believe every gentleman will readily admit that nothing is in contemplation, so far as I have mentioned, that can endanger the beauty of the Government in any one important feature, even in the eyes of its most sanguine admirers. I have proposed nothing that does not appear to me as proper in itself, or eligible as patronized by a respectable number of our fellow-citizens; and if we can make the constitution better in the opinion of those who are opposed to it, without weakening its frame, or abridging its usefulness, in the judgment of those who are attached to it, we act the part of wise and liberal men to make such alterations as shall produce that effect. Having done what I conceived was my duty, in bringing before this House the subject of amendments, and also stated such as I wish for and approve, and offered the reasons which occurred to me in their support, I shall content myself, for the present, with moving "that a committee be appointed to consider of and report such amendments as ought to be proposed by Congress to the Legislatures of the States, to become, if ratified by three-fourths thereof, part of the constitution of the United States." By agreeing to this motion, the subject may be going on in the committee, while other important business is proceeding to a conclusion in the House. I should advocate greater despatch in the business of amendments, if I were not convinced of the absolute necessity there is of pursuing the organization of the Government; because I think we should obtain the confidence of our fellow- citizens, in proportion as we fortify the rights of the people against the encroachments of the Government.
The lines were being drawn. Abraham Lincoln had been elected the 16th President of the United States. Whatever concessions, whatever favor the South might have found under the Administration of James Buchanan, they knew it was quickly drawing to a close as the March Inauguration of the Republican from Illinois fast approached. South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama had already seceded from the Union. They would not suffer a man who would deprive them of their slaves. To them slavery was more than an economic institution, though their prosperity could not long stand without it, it was a moral one as well. Yet these four states that had since left were not the only states that relied on brutal subjugation for financial security and stability and soon, they knew other states would join their cause. On January 19th, 1861 Georgia would be the fifth state to hear that call, declaring, “that the union now existing between the State of Georgia and other States under the name of the United States of America is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Georgia is in full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.” They knew who the enemy was, Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party. “We know their treachery; we know the shallow pretenses under which they daily disregard its plainest obligations. If we submit to them it will be our fault and not theirs…” they would declare in their Declaration of Cause. The truth was that it was no surprise. The 39 year old Governor Joseph Brown, who would serve as the state’s chief magistrate during the entirety of the Civil War, would see the writing on the wall almost as soon as the 1860 Election drew to a close. “Submission to the administration of Mr. Lincoln will result in the final abolition of slavery. If we fail to resist now, we will never again have the strength to resist…” he would reflect in an open letter. Had it been up to him and him alone Georgia would have likely left the Union first as he became a leading advocate for secession. Yet, even as he and others pushed for open defiance and separation from the Union, they believed it was not only their right but that they would be able to do so peaceably, with little resistance, writing, “The President in his late message, while he denies our Constitutional right to secede, admits that the General Government has no Constitutional right to coerce us back into the Union, if we do secede. Secession is not likely, therefore, to involve us in war. Submission may. When the other States around us secede, if we remain in the Union, thousands of our people will leave the State, and it is feared that the standard of revolution and rebellion may be raised among us, which would at once involve us in civil war among ourselves. If we must fight, in the name of all that is sacred, let us fight our common enemy, and not fight each other.” Yet even as fourth State admitted into the Union prepared to become the fifth to leave it, the hopes of a peaceful separation were quickly evaporating as tensions quickly escalated and shots were being fired before war was even declared. Not all of Georgia was convinced though. Much of the Northern portion of the State, which bordered North Carolina, and the ever-divided Tennessee, found themselves opposed to leaving the Union. 5,000 from the State would leave their homes to fight for the Union, knowing perhaps that if the war was lost, they would not have a home to return to. Rabun County in the North East portion of the state, refused to declare loyalty to the Confederacy, operating as if they had never left the Union. In Fannin County Confederate guerillas would line up and execute Georgians they caught trying to enlist in the Union Army. It was not the only tragedy pro-Union factions in Georgia would face as they were brutally cut down, slaughtered for their loyalty to the Government and the Constitution that their state had helped to form only a few generations prior. In the end one had to wonder if Georgia and Governor Brown began to feel as they traded one master for another. Even as they found themselves in the ranks of the Confederacy, the dream was, in his mind, greater than the reality. He would find himself often in open conflict with the new Federal Government and President Jefferson Davis. Even as he brought his state in the looser confederation he couldn’t help but feel as if his state’s rights were being violated by conscription, impressment of goods and by the taking of Georgia soldiers out of the state. It wouldn’t matter anyways. The state that was largely left to be until 1863 wood soon come into the sights of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman. His Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea was about to unleash hell on the state in a scorched earth campaign that would bring the state to its knees.
WWASHINGTON, DC – With tax day once again upon us, The Ripon Society hosted a breakfast discussion with two U.S. Congressmen who are leading the effort to reform the tax code and rein in the Internal Revenue Service. The Congressmen were Peter Roskam, who represents the 6th District of Illinois and serves as Chairman of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Oversight, and Ander Crenshaw, who represents the 4th District of Florida and serves as Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services & General Government.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Ripon Society, a 49-year old centrist policy organization dedicated to broadening the Republican Party's base, hosted a breakfast discussion focusing on one important way the party can achieve that goal – by increasing the number of women who join, run for office, and play a leadership role in the GOP. The discussion featured five women leaders who have done just that. These leaders included: Representative Shelley Moore Capito (WV-2), who Chairs the Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit; Representative Sue Myrick (NC-9), who serves as Vice Chairwoman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce; Representative Jo Ann Emerson (MO-8), who Chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government; Representative Kay Granger (TX-12), who serves as the Chairwoman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs; and former Representative Heather Wilson (NM-1), who served in the House from 1998 to 2009 and is now a candidate for the United States Senate.
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