i wanted to tell the story of baltimore. i wanted to show the world what i know, what you all know, about the incredible innovations, the dedicated people working here in our city and the difference that we're making. and i also wanted to demonstrate about the projects that we're so proud of overseeing in baltimore. our program safe streets to disrupt violence. our opioid overdose work that saved more than 3,000 lives in three years. our healthy babies program that's still going out strong now that during the time i was here reduced infant mortality by 38%. but in talking to my publisher over time, i started to realize that my story is also a story of public health. and that story was hard to write because i think, like many people, i had blocked out some of the difficult parts of my childhood. and even my adulthood, just things that i didn't really want to tell people, and i had scrolled away and hidden away somewhere. i had not really talked to a lot of people about tom, the question that you're asking about, immigration.

i wanted to tell the story of baltimore. i wanted to show the world i know what you all know about the incredible innovation, the dedicated people working here in our city and the difference we are making. i also wanted to demonstrate about the projects i was so proud of overseeing and baltimore art program on c street are overdose work that saved more than 3000 lives in three years, the healthy babies program is still going on strong now during the time i was here a decreased infant mortality. that is what he intended to the book on. but in talking with my publisher over time i started to realize that my story is also story public health. that story was hard to write because i think, like many people, i had blocked out some of the difficult parts of my childhood. even my adulthood. things i did not really want to tell people. i had it hidden away somewhere. i had not really talked to a lot of people about tom's while i think people may have known parts of it, maybe not everything. my parents and grandparents suffered a lot

. >> this is a text message from nelson in baltimore. would you comment on the thesis that the founders were more about collective rights and personal responsibility and might be surprised by the present-day emphasis on individual rights and the collective response. >> i agree with him, the divisions within the founders anytime of the founders that their coherent and collective they all agree. jefferson being an advocate for self-government which has libertarian implications but even jefferson himself assumed washington and hamilton another said unrealistically, that people would internalize a since of their obligations as a collective and then this is jefferson that all citizens would be wearing a mask for enough getting inoculated. of course that is not true in all citizens did not support the war the way they would like. i think the recent question, extremely timely and important. they're not attempting to create a democracy, democracy in the late 18th century throughout this more and throughout the rest of the century is a real posit

and last one from the "baltimore sun" dated january 5, 2017 entitled jamie raskin not seeing challenge for trump. >> without objection. we have been told mr. keller has logged on and he is recognized for five minutes. mr. keller. >> thank you, madam chair and thank you to all our witnesses for taking time to testify before the committee today. before addressing the subject you would like to urge the majority to use its oversight power to focus on the numerous crises be in rampant unnation, the crisis on the southern border, the irresponsible way the biden administration pulled out afghanistan. skyrocketing energy prices or staggering national debt to numb a few. the price of natural gas alone is at a 10-year high. this must be addressed before winter set in and americans have to make difficult financial decisions just to heat their homes. the integrity of our elections is directly linked to the integrity of our democratic system of government at the local, state or ted levels. while proper looks protocol is essential, the matter of arizona looks audit is fundamentally a state issue. it

madam chair to the honorable chair gadi, another from representative conley, and the last one from the baltimore sun dated january 5th, 2017. >> without objection. okay. we've been told mr. keller has logged on. mr. keller is now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. and thank you very much to all of our witnesses for taking time to testify before the committee today. before addressing the subject of this hearing i'd like to take a moment for the majority to use its oversight power to focus on any of the numerous crises facing our country be it rampant inflation, a crisis on our southern border, irresponsible way in which the biden administration pulled out of afghanistan, skyrocketing energy prices or the staggering national debt just to name a few. the price of natural gas alone is at a ten-year high. this must be addressed before winter sets in and americans have to make difficult financial decisions just to heat their homes. the integrity of our elections is directly linked to our integrity of our system of government at the local, state or federal level while proper electi

thank you to our excellent partners at the baltimore community foundation and wypr. thank you to hearing and speech agency for helping us provide accessibility and, of course, thank you all in the audience for joining us tonight for this important conversation. we hope you'll fill out the survey and we want to say from the library, take care and stay safe. >>> good evening. thanks for being here for this really exciting book event. this is a really important book. an american hero. someone we're proud of scott god -- gottlieb. his book will be available at bookstores all over america. i think every one knows him. it's important to remind everybody he is an aei scholar. he served in the bush administration before the trump administration and he was the fda commissioner. he spent the last couple of years helping our country get through this crisis that we face. on top of all that, he's nominated for an emmy for his performance on cbs set the nation. he's been nominated for an emmy. i got very woried about this because the emmys were last night and i didn't see the anno

she's referred to by "the baltimore sun" of her marketable woman of -- or the burr concludes the graphic novel as well as essays reviews an article that appeared in a variety of publications including the near times the believer and gannett. the recipient of the fellowship at the leon levy center for biography rebecca donner -- she appeared tonight with her new book all the frequent troubles of our days" the true story of the american woman at the heart of the german resistance to hitler. in it she explores the remarkable life and brutal death of her great great aunt mildred harnack one of germany's most successful -- and the only identify person to be a leader in the german -- one review the book reads combining the scholarship and sparkling narrative rebecca donner all the frequent troubles of our days" brings to life the essential role played by mildred harnack in germany's homegrown -- she talks about the cruelly oppressive system that reminds us of what can happen when amidst economics to insecurity and socio- cultural change and embrace his demagoguery over democracy. it was writte

you should put into your budgeting process in seattle, the twin cities and baltimore are doing this now where do you regularly, annually assess and look at where dollars are being spent and intentionally tried to achieve racial equity. this is what joe biden, i was so inspired within hours of being inaugurated, joe biden signed an executive order calling for a racial equity exercise and put susan right in charge, a formidable woman . and basically said we are going to start paying attention to how we are spending in real numbers so much money. just paying attention to this and then intentionally trying to disrupt the process of if we do nothing what tends to happen is affluence people are the squeaky wheel and they get more than their fair share in their region. being over about that. and then you know, there's so many dimensions. but dubois and angela davis talked about abolition is as much about building up as it is about tearing down and you need to repairdemocracy as you go . we should grow the multiracial coalition that claims black lives matter and sustain the coalition so you hav

in the 19th century johns hopkins made a fortune in the baltimore and ohio railroad, and directed 7 million of it to what became johns hopkins university, the largest donation ever of its kind. johns hopkins would start the first real medical school. before that medical schools kind of a night school trade school concept that wasn't about saving lives. there was no way to save lives. it was really about protecting people, easing them into their death. so johns hopkins would be the first place where they would study. how delete your what kills us? doctors and scientists matched with precious capital board of wealth creation, which brings us to john d. rockefeller arguably the richest man who ever lived. in his lifetime look he gave away $530 million. 415 million of it was directed toward healthcare studies. matching doctors and scientists with capital so that they could find cures to that which used to readily kill us. all of a sudden people are used to die once were living. people were suddenly able to die once, i twice, die three times. by that i mean what used to kill them don't want with

and the former publisher of the baltimore examiner. thank you one and all. [applause] i would like to acknowledge additional members of the headliners team responsible for today's event. besides the miraculous kevin and lori at the head table. i also want to send a shout out to the folks in our broadcast operations center, because without them, i would not be able to do this. at the end of 2019, the vatican reported nearly 18% of the worlds population or more than 1.3 billion people are members of the catholic church. 665,000 along to the archdiocese of washington, where today's speaker serves as the seventh archbishop. wilton daniel gregory was ordained to the priesthood in 1973, just five years before the college of cardinals elected the first non-italian hope in for centuries, pope john paul ii. the white smoke emerging from the sistine chapel chimney that day was a signal that the church was changing. fast-forward to november 8, 2020, less than one year ago, when the church experienced yet another historic change. elevation of then archbishop wilton greg

in the 19th century johns hopkins made a fortune from the baltimore and ohio railroad and directed 7 million of it to what became johns hopkins university. it is the largeef donation ever it its kind. johns hopkins could start the first medical school. it was a nice school, trade school concept about saving lives. it was about protecting people. easing them into their death. well so johns hopkins would be the first place they would study how do we cure what kills us, doctors and scientists matched with precious capital born of wealth creation. which brings us to john d. rockefeller, the richest man that ever live. in his lifetime he gave away $530 million. and 450 million was directed toward health care studies. matching doctors and scientists with capital so they could find cures to that which used to readily kill us. and all of a sudden, people who used to die once were living. people were suddenly able to die once, die twice, three times, by that i mean what used to kill them no longer was killed them because they had access to advanced born of economic growth. even in 1950, the b

each month of school closures cost students between 12000 and $15,000 in future earnings. 41% of all baltimore city has will students earned below a 1.0 gpa in 2020. what about their social and emotional development? mask wearing and social isolation is taking a toll. shutdowns contributing to teams gaining rate -- weight. at an alarming rate. . this was a policy that make children more unhealthy and more at risk to covid-19. how was that following the science? our kids are in crisis and unfortunately, this administration is more focused on little allies than science. what happened to leading with science? the administration is guilty of what they claimed of the trump administration, prioritizing politics over science. in may, cbc was working with items biggest campaign donors. what was supposed to be the scientific guidance. thanks to the teachers union influence, the guidance put out likely led to more school closures. six feet social distancing was a major roadblock to keeping schools open, and although the cdc director recommended three feet to her hometown prior to running from cdc, which

louis to pittsburgh or baltimore or kansas city they would love to be dallas or denver. neither of them ate western cowtown and in eastern town, even by the time of the civil war one of those things about st. louis that ends up less than 1% and slaves by the time the civil war while the rest of missouri it kept growing on the west side. but in st. louis it's shrinking as it fills up with germans. and then of course the place is split up save it for the union because st. louis germans were much better organized than the southerners who ran the state in the german sort of sees the state for the union. the unit with the help of the germans in st. louis stopped secession. then we have contradictions, the contradictions are kind of baked in that way. and so i think it totally goes back to the original circumstances to me. >> i think so too and i think you put that really well. one of the things, i am not a native missourian but when i arrived for the things told me his kansas city is the northern most outpost of southern thinking or the eastern most outpost of western thinkin

in unison, our class of 40 kids would answer loudly, reciting the baltimore catechism, god created me to know, love, and serve him in this life, and to be happy with him in the next. through many years of school and extensive reading since then, i have yet to hear a better explanation of why we are here. it was the motivating truth of my childhood, and remains a central truth today. because i am a child of god, there is no force on this earth that can make me any less of a man of equal dignity and equal worth. this was a truth repeatedly restated and echoed throughout the segregated world of my youth. this truth reinforced our proper roles as equal citizens, not a perversely distorted and reduced role offered us by jim crow, a role that is not unlike the reduced but apparently more powerful image of blacks that is bandied about or assigned to us today. whether deemed inferior by the crudest bigots or considered a victim by the most educated elite, being dismissed as anything other than inherently equal is still a reduction of our human worth. my nuns at saint benedict taught me that t

rebecca donner is the author of the novel "sunset terrace" referred to by the baltimore sun as the remarkable story of a community of single mothers and kids in 1980s los angeles. her other work includes essays, reviews and articles that have appeared in a variety of publications, including "the new york times," the believer. the recipient of a fellowship at the leon levy center for biography, donner has taught writing at columbia university, wesleyan university, and bernard. she appeared with her new book "all the frequent troubles of our days: the true story of the american woman at the heart of the german resistance to hitler." in it she explores the remarkable life of her great-great-aunt million red harnack. i the only identified person from the united states to be a leader in the german resistance. one review of the book reads thusly, combining meticulous scholarship and sparkling narrative, rebecca donner's all the frequent troubles of our days brings to light for the first time the central role played by mildred harnack in germany's homegrown depression to nazi rule. donner's portrait

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