35 Burst results for "Commissioner"
AP News Radio
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's contract reportedly to be extended to March 2027
"Agreed on the framework of a three year contract extension that will keep him in place until 2027. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim irsay confirmed Tuesday at the league meetings. Goodell's current deal expires in 2024. He has been commissioner of the league since replacing Paul tagliabue in 2006. Says he's under the impression Goodell will retire after the extended contract expires and be involved in the development of a potential successor. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
AP News Radio
Soccer stadium stampede in El Salvador leaves 12 dead
"A stampede by soccer fans at a quarterfinals league match in El Salvador has left at least a dozen dead, and many more injured. The crush happened when fans pushed through one of the entrance gates at monumental stadium in kuska clan, one fan said one of the gates was closed too early, leaving many angry fans with tickets stranded outside. Those fans eventually knocked the gate down, play was suspended about 16 minutes into the match when fans in the stands waving frantically began getting the attention of those on the field. Dozens made it onto the field where they received medical treatments. Speaking at the scene, national civil police commissioner Mauricio ariza said there would be a criminal investigation into the incidents. Approximately 400 to 500 people gathered and in the eagerness to watch the game, sometimes wanted to open the gates, and when they opened it, a small forms, some of us call it a stampede. I'm Karen Chammas.
AP News Radio
Ja Morant in limbo again as he awaits review of latest gun video on social media
"Grizzly star John morant says he takes accountability for the latest video in which he is apparently seen holding a firearm. His statement came shortly after NBA commissioner Adam silver expressed disappointment that the Memphis guard is under investigation by the league again. Silver met with morant after a similar incident in March and suspended him for a games. Silver said he was quote shocked. When he saw the video during a televised interview with ESPN before Tuesday's draft lottery in Chicago. I'm get cool ball.
AP News Radio
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear to face Republican Daniel Cameron in November
"Kentucky governor Andy beshear will have to face Republican Daniel Cameron in November. I Norman hall, attorney general Daniel Cameron has won the Republican primary for Kentucky governor and will face democratic governor Andy beshear in November. Cameron was endorsed by former president Donald Trump and emerged victorious from a 12 candidate field that included former United Nations ambassador Kelly craft and state agriculture commissioner Ryan quarles, Cameron would be the state's first black governor if elected, the race now shifts to the general election in November when the share will face a tough reelection bid in the Republican dominated state. I Norman hall
AP News Radio
New Chicago mayor pledges commitment to progressive strategy, asks for unity
"Brandon Johnson was sworn in as the mayor of Chicago. Johnson is the former organizer for the Chicago teachers union and former Cook County commissioner and has no experience within city government, Chicago has a higher per CAPiTA homicide rate than New York or Los Angeles. We don't want our story to be that Chicago beast came so traumatized by violence and despair that our residents felt no other choice but to leave. Johnson is asking chicagoans to set aside deep differences and confront challenges together. A safe Chicago means a safe Chicago for all. No matter what you look like, who you love or where you live. During his inaugural address, Johnson talked about the growing migrant crisis. We don't want our story to be told that we were unable to house the unhoused. Chicago is already struggling to provide shelter and other help to hundreds arriving from the southern border with family sleeping in police station lobbies. I'm Ed Donahue
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Left's Plan for Destruction Revealed in Senate Testimony
"So this is a great example of the world of destruction that we that the left is planned for us. It acknowledging it. And the electrical grid will not support America's power needs. You won't have heating or if it's electrical, you won't have. Air conditioning, you won't be able to power your car. If you bought an electric car, this is what was an announced in the Senate, and nobody's reported except this one I saw. Do me a favor, do it just the way a word search. New York Times, Willie Phillips, wi LIE, two elves and Phillips. It's hard to believe that they didn't report this. Again, we are heading for a very catastrophic situation in terms of reliability. This is the commissioner. Of ferc. Federal energy regulatory commission. Two Senate under oath, I presume. His colleague commissioner James danley said that there is a looming reliability crisis in our electricity markets, all because of Joe Biden, our despicable president.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Truth About Left-Wing Destruction
"So you have to understand telling people the truth about bad news. Runs up against and he said, the author is a very fine author. The author points that out, people lived, he called it a twilight. Between knowing facts and believing facts. And that good point, that's what we're living in. This Twilight. I bring to you these facts of the left wing destruction of the west. And yet most people, most people don't know about it, and even people who hear about it live in a twilight, well, it's not that bad. Things will turn out okay. You have the regulatory commission on energy, the commissioner, and the who is the other guy. The acting chairman, so there's a chairman and a commissioner. And they're telling you there's going to be a catastrophic breakdown in the electrical grid. And nobody reports it. It's not the same as Auschwitz. But it's an example, people report, but no one hears it. A catastrophic breakdown in the electrical grid you have an idea what that will do, there is no more energy to do anything that relies on electricity. And it is all because of Joe Biden and the Democrats and all your liberal, not leftists. All your liberal relatives will vote Democrat.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Catastrophic Electrical Crisis Looming in U.S
"What happens when you just don't get electric power? And do you understand the movement towards everything being an electric? Even your stove? That the movement from coal and natural gas do you understand that we won't have enough electricity? Let alone to power all cars. That was reported, I am shocked, by the way, isn't this federal, isn't this part of the bureaucracy? Federal energy, regulatory commission? They told the truth, the it's not only star could shocking that they didn't lie. Fur commissioner Mark Christie echoed Phillips warning, saying the U.S. electric grid is quote heading for a very catastrophic situation in terms of reliability.
AP News Radio
PGA rules 'cut and dried' when it comes to McIlroy $3M bonus
"Rory McIlroy says he had his reasons for skipping his second elevated event at the RBC heritage. That wasn't enough for PGA Tour commissioner Jay monahan to pay out the remaining $3 million of mcelroy's player impact program bonus. Monaghan announced Wednesday that the world's third ranked player won't receive the $3 million sum, mcelroy finished second to Tiger Woods in the PIP program, which measures the player's popularity and impact on tour. He was set to make $12 million, but that payout has been reduced by 25% after he missed his second elevated event. I'm get cool ball.
AP News Radio
New Big Ten commish: Integrating USC, UCLA is top priority
"New Big Ten commissioner Tony petiti said he's ready to lead a conference that's on solid footing, but insisted there are still hurdles to clear. The most immediate task he said is ensuring a smooth transition when Southern California and UCLA arrived next year. It's really important to integrate USC and UCLA properly. So while they are going to be members, there's a ton of work that has to be done to make sure that we organize it properly. The longtime Major League Baseball and TV executive was introduced as the Big Ten 7th commissioner on Friday just over two weeks after he was hired to replace Kevin Warren. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Peter Kirsanow Unpacks Democrats' Refusal to Address Crime Spikes
"Peter krishnan. He joins us now on America first with doctor Sebastian gorka also from Cleveland, Ohio. Commissioner personnel, good to talk to you, sir. How are you? Always good to be with you, bob. Peter, there's a lot to talk about here, and you and I talked on Tuesday for almost an hour. But shockingly, and surprisingly, to me, and I feel kind of bad about this, we didn't talk about this because I wasn't aware of this little, this little moment in time, something happened one week ago today now. It was last Friday at a commission meeting of meeting of the commission on civil rights, a little showdown that was described by the daily wire as being a bit of chaos. Can you tell us why it is that your Democrat colleagues on the civil rights commission refused to study or talk about the recent spike in violent crime, particularly when the victims of that violent crime are African American, Peter? Well, it's par for the course for the left. They're bound throwers who like to do everything possible to it seems to increase or lead to the increase in crime and then run away from it once it actually happens. And there's a variety of reasons we can discuss at length that some other time as to why they do these things. Many people, including Tucker Carlson, believe it's strategic, others think it's simply politically tactical. It gives them a certain momentary advantage. But the bottom line here is that just to give your listeners the digest of this. We had meaning the civil rights commission consists of 8 commissioners appointed by the president's Speaker of the House and Senate majority leader. Well, we had four vacancies on the commission that were all appointed by progressives, okay? And Biden appointed these individuals and designated one person as the chair and one person as the vice chair and by statute, the rest of the commissioners have to confirm his nominations for chair and vice chair. And we took that as an opportunity to insist that we have a hearing on the effect of crime on minorities, the
AP News Radio
Historic investment in urban trees underway across the U.S.
"A historic investment in urban trees is underway across the United States. President Biden's inflation reduction act has set aside $1.5 billion to fund tree planning projects over the next decade. Urban forestry advocates believe this initiative will transform underserved neighborhoods that have grappled with dirty or air and dangerously high temperatures because they don't have a leafy Canopy overhead. Washington state commissioner of public lands Hillary France says more trees are needed everywhere. In every state and in our state, we have underinvested in our urban tree canoe. Detroit resident amine Taylor is one of 300 workers who will plant 75,000 trees in the city over the next 5 years. It'd be the fastest city. And not only that, it gives more oxygen too. Trees help suck up, heat trapping, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They also reduce erosion and flooding. I'm Mike Hempen.
The Trish Regan Show
Senator Ron Johnson Reacts to Journalist Matt Taibbi’s IRS Visit
"For those of you that don't know Matt taibbi is a journalist longtime journalist. He actually rather liberal for most of his career. And he happened to get his hands on the Twitter files thanks to Elon Musk. The day he was set to testify before lawmakers. He got a knock on his door. It was the IRS. And senator Johnson, I'd like to know, what was that about in your view? Well, first of all, people have to understand how unbelievable, but unfortunately the Biden administration all too believable it would be that the IRS would send an agent out to knock on a taxpayers door, I mean, I think that probably never happens. I couldn't get the IRS commissioner to admit that, but I mean, I've never heard of it. My wife used to be an IRS agent. I mean, that's not how that's not the first step the IRS takes in notifying a taxpayer that may be an issue with his tax return. But the fact that they did it on the day that Matt taibbi is testifying before the House weaponization subcommittee talking about the Twitter files, I mean, the chances of those things coinciding are infinitesimal. And so I asked the new IRS commissioner Danny werfel to make sure that he provides us the information that the chairman Jordan requested as well. Any documents related to exactly how that agent showed up on the door. Again, do I think they're going to be transparent that's certainly not my experience with the federal agencies that they're transparent with Congress, which means the American public, but this is just a bizarre circumstance. And let's face it, we have evidence, certainly under the Obama administration of the IRS weaponized against American citizens in the whole Tea Party targeting. We certainly see the unequal application of justice as the IRS appears to have, or at least Justice Department has appeared to turn the other just ignore Hunter Biden, even though we have emails from his basically financial adviser Eric schwerin, telling these guys have to pony up another $400,000 report that is income, which he didn't report.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
No More Corporate Rule in Florida!
"No corporations should be running their own world. They all have free speech rights, and I am a big believer in citizens united. And Disney can strike back if they want at the governor. I'm pretty sure bob Iger is too smart to do that. And I'm pretty sure, Budweiser and Disney did not intend to be in the middle of political debates, which served neither company, nor was it obligatory to do so, and the phrase screw around and find out that's the PG version is what both of them are finding out. Budweiser in a world of hurt. But let's begin with the opening of the governor's press conference if we can cut number 22 governor Ron DeSantis yesterday on Disney. Now here is an example of something we didn't necessarily think we would be needing to do, but it's something that we have to do. We have a government of laws that said, not a government of men, and that includes the law being superior to big corporations, even corporations, as big and powerful as Walt Disney Company. They are not superior to the laws that are enacted by the people of the state of Florida. And if you remember 2022, we had a special session of the Florida legislature, senator commissioner Simpson was the Senate president at the time, some of these members were there, where we said, you know, this idea of one corporation having its own government in Central Florida is something that is no longer in the best interest of the state of Florida. So we put down the marker that we were going to be going in a different direction. And a lot of people didn't think that would be anything that would even be possible given how much heft and how much power that this one company had withstood. And so my mantra was, you're not going to have Disney have its own government in Central Florida. They're going to live under the same laws as everybody else. Pay their fair share of taxes and honor the debts that they've accumulated over these years. And so we then had to, as we are getting into this calendar year, put the finishing touches on, okay, what does that look like? How do you bring that vision into a reality? And there were certain things you could have done. I mean, for example, could have just said, you know, just dissolve the district and let the local governments take it. The problem with that is like the local government here in Orange County was very clear. If they had to assume the bonds, they were going to raise people's taxes. And that was totally unacceptable. We were not going to make people in Central Florida pay taxes for Disney's debts.
AP News Radio
Expelled Black lawmaker Pearson to return to Tennessee House
"The second of two black Democrats expelled from the Republican led Tennessee House will be returning to the legislature. Hundreds of supporters marched with Justin Pearson through Memphis to the Shelby county board of commissioners meeting. The vote was 7 nothing for his return. Pearson and Justin Jones were expelled for supporting gun control protesters following a deadly school shooting in Nashville. I'm so glad we get to get back to doing our job. Audio from WAT and TV, Pearson has a message for House leadership. A movement is rising. See, they tried to kill democracy. They tried to expel the people's choice and the people's vote. And they awakened a sleeping choice. Republicans have so far refused to consider any new restrictions on firearms, following the Nashville school shooting. I'm Ed Donahue.
AP News Radio
2nd Black lawmaker could be returned to Tennessee House
"A black Tennessee lawmaker who was expelled from the legislature could soon know whether he'll be reinstated. The Shelby county border commissioners is expected to decide today whether to send Justin Pearson back to the legislature in Nashville last Thursday Republicans expelled Democrats Pearson and representative Justin Jones following their support of gun control protesters on the House floor, a third Democrat representative Gloria Johnson, who is white, survived an expulsion vote, and that drew accusations of racism on Monday it took the Nashville metropolitan council only a few minutes to unanimously restore Jones to office ahead of today's vote, Pearson is expected to lead a march from the national civil rights museum to the county commission's office in downtown Memphis. I'm Donna water
AP News Radio
Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams
"On May 28 2021, fishermen in Tobago found a boat adrift as they approached it, they made a grisly discovery. Inside, where the decomposing bodies of around a dozen black men, one later identified as SAO, who'd gone missing in January that year in Mauritania, Tobago assistant commissioner of police William nurse helped on the probe, with a backlinks origins remained a mystery. We began to remove the bodies from the boat, one by one. It was one of the most horrific experiences I have ever had. The AP's traveled to the mauritanian town of celebrity and found that dozens of people from that region, Mali and Senegal had gone missing after boarding a boat on the night of January 12th, 2021, and Allison Saul was among them. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
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New York City unveils 3 high-tech policing devices including reintroducing digidog
"New York City brings back a controversial crime fighting tool, digi dogs, a digital robot dog on display in Times Square for a limited time. Mayor Eric Adams could barely take his eyes off the 70 pound yellow and black robo dog that's a little bigger than a German Shepherd and has been described as creepy looking. Technology is here. We can not be afraid of it. Criticized by civil rights activists as dystopian and another tool to aggressively police and surveil New Yorkers. If a person has a loved one that is in a hostage situation, they want a digi dog, a real dog, and anything else they can get. The NYPD says it spent $750,000 from forfeiture money on two digi dogs for counter terrorism not patrol. Police commissioner keyshawn sul, the use of these technologies will be transparent, consistent, and always done in collaboration with the people that we serve. Police are getting to other tech tools, K 5 robots which look like larger versions of R two D two and star chase GPS trackers. So police can follow without a chase. Julie Walker, New York
The Paul Finebaum Show
"commissioner" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"I know you visited the campuses of both. What can you say about the fact that Oklahoma and Texas now are finally coming in and we know when yeah, well, a couple of things about that day, we really, the news had popped at media days, what, 8 or 9 days early, and I think I did my best to avoid you. So I felt badly about the relational issues we had there for a moment. We also wanted to be respectful. You know, I recognize still the turmoil I caused a relationship with bob in his leadership, but we also in talking with both presidents. They were very clear with me that July of 2020 one was not the moment to be launching fireworks and producing videos. Others have taken different approaches in those moments, but we wanted to be as respectful as we could in the difficult circumstance. So that was part of what you saw. The second part was recognizing the entry date was dictated by existing contractual agreements. And we're now clear of those. We now can watch a little bit of video production on social media. We can talk about 16 just means more. You look towards the future. What you look at is we're going to have like the two greatest music cities in this country between Nashville and Austin in this league. If you've been to Oklahoma City to visit for the softball World Series and see the growth of that city, that's pretty special. It fits in places like Athens and Nashville and Lexington. And I could name them all. You see really high level competitive athletics with leading universities like we have. That's incredibly exciting. Our fan bases. I was I was traveling through Memphis. I've told this story a few years ago when Delta had bought out northwest and Memphis was still a hub for Delta in Texas had played an Oxford in just the overwhelming representation of the Texas fans. You know, this is one of those expansions. It's really unique in that we restore rivalries. Texas a and M, playing Texas. Arkansas playing Texas dating back to some of their legendary games in the 60s. You know, uniquely for like our legal Friends, Oklahoma and Georgia have this relationship around the border regions case that really changed college football and the nature of college football TV. And there are any number of other relationships and interactions that will make what we're going to have special. And I've been kind of overwhelmed starting last night with the number of points of outreach for people who want to talk about our future, what it means. And I think that's representation of the full scope of excitement. We all have in front of us. I realize there are so many things to deal with first, but we've seen it in the past with Missouri having an SEC tournament there. We've seen other things. You hate to assume anything. But that's a big area of the country that the SEC is now visiting, at least in Oklahoma. The league is certainly been to Texas with Texas a and M, but we'll let me noticeable do you think, as we move down the road, things that used to be somewhere or maybe pop into the state of Texas or Oklahoma? It's very much on our mind, Paul. And I think about media days in 2024. The likelihood that we can move westward, we've been talking about that opportunity with a number of locations on our westward side. So conferences don't move media days. We move media days. We've been in Birmingham a lot. We've been in Atlanta a couple of times. We're in Nashville, this summer, and we've held off on a future decision, just thinking about if the entry changes this provides us the opportunity to do something out west. So that's on our mind. And we've talked about any number of other championships where we don't have long-term contracts and the possibilities that exist. And you know, I lived in the Dallas area for 11 years. And I know that the presence that we have from alums all across this conference. I've got many that are friends that have opinions on our expansion that have expressed those to me. But they can be drawn into our events, whether it's in the Houston area, San Antonio, Dallas, up into Oklahoma, Oklahoma City. My grandfather was born in shoto, Oklahoma. So there's a lot of personal familiarity for me and I'm excited to see what more we might be able to do. On our westward side, also recognizing the strength we have in the geographic center of the history. We have around some of our events that we need to focus on maintaining. Well, commissioner again, I know it's a day that all of us, I think, have been waiting for to finally be crowned official. There are thousands of other things I would like to ask you, but I'll save it for another day because I think this day is to celebrate OU in Texas. Well, the great thing about the clarity is we know the work we have from scheduling. But then we have a lot of important issues that you and I will be talking about for a long time that we'll take our focus back to solving some of the challenges and realizing some of the opportunities in front of us in college sports. But moving to 16s and exciting and unique opportunity in our history and we look forward to our future. Thank you very much. The commissioner of the southeastern conference, Craig sanke, joining us on a memorable day and momentous day in the history of the SEC. We'll take a short break. Your reaction right around the corner. You were listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. Geico asks how would you love a chance to save some money on car insurance?
The Paul Finebaum Show
"commissioner" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"And pageantry of college football lives here. This is the Paul fine bomb show hour three podcast. Back second half the show on a Friday afternoon, we began two hours ago talking to Chris del Conte, the vice president and athletic director at the University of Texas. And somehow you probably heard by now that Texas and Oklahoma will be coming into the SEC in July of 2024. We speak now to the commissioner of the southeastern conference Greg sankey. Commissioner, thanks for the time. Seems like this has been quite a journey and Odyssey for you and your league. How do you feel today knowing the start date? Well, it's exciting to have a level of certainty, you know, you go back to that Friday when we announced the invitations. If you replayed that video, I was pretty subdued. We always wanted to be respectful, even with the difficulty of transition taking place of our colleagues. They've made a decision to facilitate this early exit on their part. That means early entry for us. We now know some timelines rather than dealing with the what ifs. And looking forward to being a 16 team lead. Yeah, I do remember that day. Commissioner, you were, it seemed like the way the world was on your shoulders, even though it was, it was a joyous day for fans like us, there were a lot of things to get through. That's all under, that's all passed now. And so now it's about figuring it out. And I know it's something that your team and your athletic directors and everyone else have been working on now for some time, but where are we on knowing what this league is going to look like other than having 16 schools in it? Well, we start with 16. We start with the summer 2024 entry. We also know that that year will be transitioning our first pick TV rights from CVS to ABC and ESPN. I think that's an important element because we built into that opportunity flexibility around how we schedule football games. That midday window that's generally very clean, we've got a lot more flexibility. So it's the right timing for us. We also have the onset of the college football playoffs. So those are big picture issues. We then go to our reality, which is how we schedule that's inherent in the question you're asking me, we have made it through virtually every sport, regular season and postseason format. We just finished a meeting of our athletics directors last week in New Orleans where some of the final touches were put on volleyball and baseball, for example, those needs of final approval. What's left is football. And we were in Destin, you recall a conversation, probably where I used the word poised, as it relates to making a decision on the football schedule. From July of 21 until that point late May of 22, a lot of work had been done, but we said collectively, let's stop because there's a lot of things out there that we'd like to know. What's going to happen with the CFP? So you checked that box. We learned that. What's going to happen with our colleague, conferences, meteorites. We saw the Big Ten, moving its meteorites, but also expands. So that's information. We didn't expect. We wanted to work through some elements of our own analysis, tiebreakers, and kind of the stuff that's not that interesting for TV. We continue to work through that along with analytics. And all of that's really helped inform our decision making, not to mention knowing the entry data. And I would say we have about a 90 day window that leads us into our dust and meetings to wrap up our football decision making. I'm happy to talk about the not all the specifics, but some of the specifics. But that's the time frame now that we know the entry point. The public is pretty congressman commissioner of some of the issues. We know there's currently we have 8, will there be 9 figuring out the division or non division seems to be already in the wind and then how the schedules look. And I realize all this is still under a conversation, but can you give us some guidelines to what and how this is figured out? Well, a couple of things, the public is very aware because that received letters still. Suggesting different scheduling models. And I can assure people we've probably thought about that approach. Whatever it may be. So we've looked at well over 40 different formats, if you will, and from those formats, there are different models. What I said way back in the summer of 2021 is I'd like us to engage in blue sky thinking. So look at the big picture. But also figure out how we can move our teams through our campuses with greater frequency. And we still under this 12 team or 12 year rotation haven't had teams visit some cross divisional rivals. We then worked in groups and then individually with athletics directors to talk about priorities. The words fairness and balance came out. And then we had to define those fairness means some level of competitive proximity to others in the league. You'll never have perfection there. In balance is the ability to rotate teams through with greater frequency. That's moved us towards a focus on a single division model. That doesn't mean that's the only possible model for us. It moved us quickly away from this pod's idea. In that model, we would have sent teams back to the same place and repeated years before they host a team at home. That's not going to resonate well with our fans, even though over ten years it might even out. We know a lot about divisions. We know how those work, how you would allocate teams, what we really talked about the single division model. And what's key is the number of games. We can rotate teams through either an 8 or 9 game, either through an 8 or 9 game model with a lot of frequency, what becomes really important is long-standing rivalry games. Geographic proximal games, and we want to work with our TV partner to learn a little bit more before we make our final decision. So that's where we are. Those are the elements discussed. It's been a really healthy conversation. We've used an outside firm to help facilitate some of the thinking, but also some of the analytics, some of the modeling. And we'll continue to do so over the weeks and months ahead. I know, because I've heard you talk about this so often, the ear of collegiality in these rooms, although it sounds like these conversations could be fairly spirited. How would these decisions be reached? I realize you're the commissioner, but what happens if there is an impasse? Well, in each of our athletics directors, meanings, in fact, they could turn around. We have a little sheet we share with our ADs that quotes the legendary Doug Dickey. And he said to my predecessor after Mike's first meeting, there was a 7 to 5 7 to 5 vote on something. He said, commission. The SE 7 to 5 12 when we leave the room. Paul, I said to our athletics directors at the beginning of our scheduling discussion in New Orleans, eventually we're going to take votes on these issues and it's going to be a majority determination. I guess you could have an 8 to 8 vote and then we'll be back in further discussions, but we've got to get people to the point of having enough information to make these key decisions when we talk about what we've done in some of our other sports, some of those meetings have included disagreement. It's not like everything's been unanimous about, but one of the hallmarks of what we're welcoming to new universities and our athletics programs into is a really effective culture where we can disagree. We make decisions and we move forward. And that's what we're going to do on our football schedule. I know commissioner when we talk to you on that summer day, a year and a half ago, it was awkward because of the legality now that that is out of the way. I know you visited the campuses of both. What can you say about the fact that Oklahoma and Texas now are finally coming in and we know when yeah, well, a couple of things
The Paul Finebaum Show
"commissioner" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"But beyond that, a worry that we really going to establish a national champion, I've always stated that I've never sure that the basketball tournament establishes a national champion. It's certainly established as a tournament champion. But whether that was the best team because of the number of games you have to endure in the chances for upset whether the best teams finally get to that stage, but I think with the four teams as we have now, I think this year was another clear example of that. I think there was a clear cut number of 14s that deserve to be in that championship. I think the committee did a great job of putting him into that championship and I think we truly have a national champion in college football. And I worry that we may lose that to some degree because if you play three or four games, the opportunity is upset or more and I realize that's exciting for the fans and the media. But that does not necessarily prove or establish a so called national champion. We're talking to commissioner Kramer, commissioner, it just seems like we have dealt with a number of tragedies this year in college football with the terrible incident, Virginia, we just have been talking about what happened at Georgia over the weekend. I realized things like that happened, and they happened on everyone's watch. We lost coach leach as well. But I'm particularly curious what you've learned over the years because I remember you may have dealt with bigger controversies, but I can't forget and I know nobody can forget in the aftermath of September 11th, the challenge that you had in dealing with that episode and that incident and the repercussions on whether to play college football that we can initially the league decided to play and then reversed it when pretty much everything else shut down. Not only that subject, but just the overall subjects are dealing with this. Situation, we've had a particularly tough run here the last two or three weeks as you well know, you referred to and those are very sad and very life experiences that happen. And athletics can not avoid being a part of that. It's a part of real life, the players are real life. They have families. They have relatives. They have a life of their own far beyond the Saturday afternoons that we watch them on the field. And these kinds of events certainly touch the lives not only of those families that are immediately affected. We're going to touch the whole team because football is very much a team sport. And the members of that team are very close and when one of those members is expected at a very sad and difficult way, it affects the entire team. And that's one of the challenges coaches have as they move through this is to realize that dealing with not just football players, but actual human beings who experience these times in life. It is tough to make some of those decisions and we're very tough to make that decision of 9 11. As you know, I had some feelings that we should continue to play because I felt a big call upon was for this country to change its way of life. That's why they struck on that tragic day in September of that year. And that perhaps we should certainly set aside a time to honor the people who lost their lives and all of that, but we should not allow those people to change the way we live by any type of an incident like that, but those are tough decisions to make. And we had to make those. We've had to make those of course with the dealing with the COVID situation and other situations of that nature and that's a tough as a tough time for the leaders in the industry to athletics of post sports or wherever it happens. Commissioner Roy Kramer, on so many various subjects, including his recent selection to the college football Hall of Fame commissioner, you bring so much joy to all of us here when we were able to visit with you. Stay well and we can't wait to see you very soon. Thank you, Paul. I appreciate it very much. Thank you. Commissioner Roy Kramer, now in the college football Hall of Famers. We head to the break. Your phone calls on the other
The Paul Finebaum Show
"commissioner" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Paul fine bomb show hour three podcast. 5 o'clock hour is live and before we get to our next guest. I want to give a couple of statistics, so about him. He was in 1974, the division two national coach of the year. He's in countless hall of fames. He had a pretty amazing record as a football coach. In fact, his last year at central Michigan, he was ten and one, he had an 83 32 and two overall record there. But that's not what you know, Roy Kramer for you. You know him as being the athletic director at Vanderbilt and later as one of the most influential commissioners in the history of college sports. And now the newest member, he will be inducted in December of the college football Hall of Fame. Commissioner Kramer, first of all, thank you for joining us in many congratulations. How are you? I'm doing great, Paul, and thank you very much. I've gone back over various in various episodes of time and looked into your career as a coach. And I think it gets under appreciated. I know that it's been a while since you were on the field, but let's talk for just a second about your day is as a coach in Michigan and elsewhere and what those days meant to you. Well, as you look back over time and I'm looking back over a long time, as you know, pulse, it certainly probably was the highlight of my experience in athletics because of the relationship with the young men who played the game and the excitement, the emotion and the game itself. Which meant so much to me and which I thoroughly enjoyed. And we did have a degree of success there and we had some great young men who played in that era and made me look good as the coach. And we call you commissioner now, but I mean, there was a time a lot of people referred to you as coach as coach as well because of your reputation. How did that help you or what effect or impact it didn't have when you not only became an athletic director, but later had to deal with the entire body of coaches in the southeastern conference? Well, I always felt and I had thought at the time that it was a plus because I understood both sides of the picture. Obviously, we had issues that came forward, but I was able to listen because I think I understood where the coaches were coming from and they have a very passionate desire to win a very passionate interest in their particular team and the success of that team and being able to balance that with the tough decisions you have to make. I think a very strong foundation for me in that period of time. Commissioner, I know you have been selected to countless hall of fames and probably have run out of space with all the awards that you have received, but when you heard this news the other day about this particular award, what was your reaction and what does it mean? Well, first of all, Paul is very humbling because if you look at the list of individuals in that Hall of Fame and try to imagine that somehow you fit in a small corner of that is a very humbling experience because the game the Hall of Fame is really a history of the game of college football and as you survive that and realize that you have been invited to be a part of that is a very humbling experience. I have to say and I think that was the principle feeling I felt when I received that announcement. Talking to commissioner Roy Kramer, along with a very distinguished group of being selected for the 23 college football Hall of Fame commissioner. We are now 8 days removed from yet another national championship for your league, the southeastern conference. I know that never gets old. But it is pretty remarkable. And I think we'd all be interested in your thoughts as you viewed Monday night and Georgia doing it again. Well, certainly very proud of the bulldogs because they certainly demonstrated that they deserve that number one ranking all year long. They played with an enormous amount of intensity and excitement and emotion that I think demonstrated how just how good a football team that was, the stories of the individuals that on that team are countless walk on quarterback truly outstanding offensive and defensive linemen and required receivers. It was a complete team. I suspect one of the most complete things we've seen in the long and storied history of the southeastern conference and they certainly demonstrated that that night. When we first decided to have that championship game, for you and I had a few discussions over, but anyway, when we first decided to have that game how strongly some people fell including some of our coaches and the media as well that that would be the end of the southeastern conference that we would never be able to challenge for an isil championship again. Well, I think last Monday night certainly demonstrated that that didn't necessarily come true. You know, commissioner, I remember working my boss at the time was just passed away a couple of years ago. He wrote a column saying, the SEC will never have an undefeated team again because it will cost. It will cost the league championships and you remember distinctly gene stallings at first year bellyaching after going, I guess it was 11 and O and saying we still haven't won anything yet because. We played the whole season. We have one anything. I know we were all happy to see him win the national championship, but man, I would not have wanted to be in your office on the day afterwards if they had lost that championship. I suspect that was fortuitous in the long run. There's a great game if you remember right down to the wire. No, I do. I remember it very well. It was fantastic. And I remind coach spurrier of that many, many times when I've been with him. I'm sure he would. It really was a great game. We haven't talked to you since the news broke about the expansion of the playoff. And we're still two years away, but we're not that far away from being able to talk about it. What was your reaction to that? And what do you think it's going to mean to the game to have so many different rounds as opposed to what we've had in the past? Well, I have sort of mixed the motions to be honest with you Paul. I understand the political practicality of the fact that the championship games have become so big that the desire by conferences to have some recognition in that and some presence in that has grown so strong that probably that inevitably had to happen. It's a preservation, however, for a couple of reasons there are three one is whether extending the length of the season, a number of games to play, a football is a very tough sport, as you know, with a lot of injuries at times, and we're asking our players to extend that season significantly more than where we are right now.
The Paul Finebaum Show
"commissioner" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Lot of things happening here on the show. We thought we'd go on the other side of town here with our next guest. He is commissioner escalante of the sickos committee. If you're asking who is he and what is that all about? I'm asking the same question. For those who are inside the beltway, they undoubtedly heard of the commissioner, but most of us don't know. You don't think about it, right? I have no idea. Randy doesn't know anything about it. Commissioner, great to have you on. I know you just got through watching the Myrtle Beach bowl on ESPN one by somebody over somebody else. I'm not really sure which one that was. Good afternoon and welcome to our little party. How are you? I'm great. Thank you so much for having me on, Paul. It's an honor to be on the fine bomb show. And this is very strange that I'm here, but I am very appreciative of being on the show. I do want to congrat. You have a congratulations to Marshall for defeating UConn in the Myrtle Beach bowl. UConn did turn the ball over a few times and had some chances to win the game, but Marshall was able to pull it out. Well, it's still pretty good season for Yukon. Considering the controversy that has endured at that little cow. Well, commissioner, I'm going to play dumb for good reason. I am. And we're just going to act like I just ran into you're sitting next to me on a plane and I see your name tag and I say, am I supposed to know who you are? Really, this is a weird way that this committee was formed, we were formed in like a Discord of fans of the shutdown sole cast and the former podcast and played nobody. So we're fans of this. Some of them lost their jobs. During the pandemic and they formed a Discord and a lot of the fans of the show joined the Discord and we met each other that way. We started to talk about our fandoms. Personally, myself, I'm a fan of Louisiana Monroe, which I really don't find too many fans online of Louisiana Monroe. And we had a bunch of other fans of smaller schools like Dartmouth, I mean like the lower level P 5 schools that haven't been great in a while. A lot of UConn trends to basically we started to form this weird loose committee where we started to rank games on their unconventionally appealing aspects. So we started to look for the games that are a little bit off the beaten path and we really wanted to explore and shine a light on them. We started to use this weird, which you probably see on the screen right now. This cartoon from the onion, where sickos, we're watching the weird games that nobody else is watching. So we're the ones that are on like ESG and three or ESPN+ watching the games that really not many people are paying attention to. And we love to find the storylines about those little games. And then we also find it intriguing when bigger schools that have higher expectations fall down a little bit. They get our attention. To mention maybe a little bit of a and M season got a little shine from us this year. They were expected to be better than what they were. And they worked. So we paid a little bit more attention to them. So that was quite interesting there. We loved the little tiny schools like UMass, we root for them. We want them to do good. But that's basically what we're here for. We're just having fun making really bad jokes. I don't know how we've gotten so many followers. It was really just supposed to be an account for 20 of us to just make really jokes inside jokes for ourselves. And now apparently we're making our inroads inside of college football, which is very strange. But it's very hilarious and we're just enjoying the ride. Well, commercially, you're at almost a 100,000 followers and I don't know whether you're handled will live to see the end of the day considering what's been going on lately. But so you guys converse, tell us about these conversations and how does it work? So the conversations really happened from week to week and we started to rank the games on the games basically that either nobody would really want to watch or you have to be crazy to watch this game. Or like why are you watching this game? So or like, hey, this game is gone off the rails. This is insane. Those games, we started to rank those. I started to put a list of the games. And we started to kind of take it somewhat seriously and have a debate on being how ridiculously silly. This sounds. And we started to rank them and we would post our sickos committee game of the week. Each week, and then for some odd reason, the people that follow us wanted to be the sitcoms came in the week. Truly weird. And there were teams that were upset. I think one week last year that we put Miami versus Florida state. This was 2021, which is we put that as a sickos game of the week in the Minnesota blog that followed us was very upset. We did not rank Iowa versus Minnesota as the sickos game of the week, even though we put them second. Is absolutely crazy that people are passionate this way. We found a weird niche of college football fandom that I guess we didn't really know existed. We just thought it was just us. And I mean, we've just grown exponentially and we just have a great time. And we're watching every game. Whatever the game is on, we're watching the NAI final. We're watching South Dakota state play Montana state last week in the big sky. We're watching everything and just having a great time just enjoying college football because football is good football because it is football, Paul. Commissioner, I'll try not to be sure, prosaic here with this question, but you knew it was coming. Okay.
The Paul Finebaum Show
"commissioner" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Yes, I just want to commend you and the entire staff on how I mean what a swaying we've had from the cutthroat, you know, wait before last is to cut fan base, everybody's pulling for their things and then everybody pulls together for my late and you guys had one of the most extra extraordinary shows for the entire weight last week. I think that you probably ever had. And then this week, we've got lives being saved. We've got Jesus being talked about and would you actually have ever seen your show going to this extraordinary, which is an amazing criteria? AJ no. We've had some moments over the years. And that's what happens with a live show, but we primarily in the past been known for things of destruction. No matter how we've tried to outrun it, I mean, that one call by Harvey updike really helped people decided to identify the show by that. As if every call on this show was about burning down the other side, coveted an important artifacts. But no, I think we really had, I agree with you, and I think it's the callers who make this work and also the people behind the scenes are crew behind the scenes. They were able to connect the gentleman who called Louisiana to the person who ultimately saved his life the other day was his phone call. So I mean, there's a lot that goes on that we don't see or hear. I'm astounded at how exceptional that just the last two weeks, this has been a different show for two weeks or going on to then it's ever been. I'm glad you said that. And I will give you I think there's more to come to this Paul. I really do. I think this is going to get a little deeper than what we all initially are seeing at the subsurface here. Well, I hope you're right. I've always felt that what we did here was too easily put into a small box. And I will tell you, well, we will try hard to continue this path. I don't know what the betting line in Vegas is that will be successful. But it certainly a worthy, it's a worthy goal. I will say that to you. I appreciate you. I appreciate the show and I appreciate all the callers and I appreciate everything that's been going on for the last couple of weeks. Thank you, AJ. It's been unusually extraordinary. You got it. Speaking of that, to 48 hours from now, we will be in the first segment of our conversation with archbishop merino, which is always one of our traditions. At or around Christmas. So hopefully we'll all be able to reflect with archbishop about the year and look ahead to next. We'll take a short break. We're coming right back. Every college football season, Goodyear knows the importance of winning on the road. The road will always demand confidence. The confidence to handle whatever the journey brings and to perform under tough conditions.
The Paul Finebaum Show
"commissioner" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Been quite a program today. If you're just getting on board, let's get some more phone calls in here a few more guests to roll and Thomas is in Iowa hello Thomas Gordon. How are you, Paul, happy holiday. Same to you. Thank you very much. So I was obviously I'm up here in the Midwest and I know the big talk around here is Vic ten is considering additional expansion. And I know a lot of people have said that if they wanted Washington and Oregon, they would have gotten them with USD and UCLA. So what I read was that the Big Ten is looking to expand to new markets. So I know that Missouri in the past has wanted to go to the Big Ten, but didn't get the offer back in 2011, but they said yes to the SEC. And I'm wondering, is there a I'm assuming there's not a grain of rice with the SEC or is there for a team to leave? Thomas, I'm not a 100% sure on the termination constrictions. I will say this about the Big Ten from what I know. The reason they stopped where they were, first of all, it's difficult to absorb as we have watched in real time with the SEC. I think the issue there is that they stopped it too, hoping that they could get a bite from Notre-Dame. And by all indications, that did not happen. So I think right now what I have heard is this there are still some conversations going on with the aforementioned schools and what they would probably need is another television partner probably a streaming partner. I don't think Missouri is in their plans. Okay. The only reason why I said that is because obviously they're closer to the big tens than they are to the SEC. By all means. Also the thing, the other thing the Big Ten looks at is AAU membership, which, you know, that's kind of a prerequisite. The other thing I was wondering, and I don't really know what Vanderbilt is looking like in the future, but do you ever see a possibility that Vanderbilt were to leave for another conference down the road? No. There was one conversation. I'm going back 30 years where some suggested Vanderbilt to the ACC. And in some ways, academically and in other regards, they said, but I don't think that that's ever going to be discussed again. And quite frankly, Vanderbilt profits so mightily from its relationship with the SEC just from a financial standpoint, and the rest of it they're happy with. Vanderbilt cares about athletics. We've seen that through their baseball program, which is always one of the best in the country. Their basketball program used to be a shining Beacon for them and they're hopeful it will be again one day. The football program has gotten a lot better under Clark's Lee. So yeah, I mean, those are really interesting questions, but I don't see I do believe that expansion is just on hold right now. And I mean that across the board and I'll let it sit right there, but I don't think I don't think the SEC or the Big Ten are done yet. Yes. And I guess the other question, if you have some time, in the event of the Big Ten does add to teams, where do you think the SEC would go to match the Big Ten? I think the SEC's most likely route would be to the ACC. Now there are a lot of complications there, but it's also worth remembering the SEC and the ACC have one commonality, and that's its relationship with ESPN. So all kinds of games can be played and will be played. But I think there are four schools in the ACC that are probably on the wish list and I think you could have a debate on all four of them in terms of which ones are the most likely. Okay. The only reason I was asking was because I know initially when they South Carolina wasn't technically a part of the ACC. However, they are rivals with Clinton. Do you see a possibility of maybe taking two teams that have rivals in the ACC and moving them to the SEC? Yes. Yes. There was a time when Florida could block Florida state or those days are over. Right now, there's so much we're so far beyond that. I would say the SEC would clearly look to the state of Florida and then. To me, the one school that is the most mysterious. If everything broke down, I'm just giving you a pie in the sky. If all the barriers came down and the ACC was open for business, the most coveted school in the ACC, which I think I'll surprise some people with this is North Carolina. And some of the claims from academics, some of it comes from just population, but they really offer they're probably, they would be and I think the Big Ten would be in play for them as well. Yeah, the two I was thinking and I know some people said Virginia, but the two I like is Virginia tech for football and North Carolina for basketball. Because you've got to look at it from the standpoint of football is still king. However, if you can grow your basketball platform even more. But yeah, I do thank you for that. It's just, you know, that's a big topic up here about expansion and obviously it's kind of like the SEC and the Big Ten once it's all said and done, you know, who knows how many teams they'll stop at. I mean, it could be 2024. Who knows? Thomas, the problem. Yeah, it is so difficult to reboot. I mean, we've been talking about this Texas Oklahoma thing for a year and a half on how it would look and we think we think we're getting close to something coming out on that. And I think the new year very well will bring that. But it really is, it's difficult from a scheduling standpoint. It's a complex situation. And I think we will get there again. Once all the moves start happening next year and the year after, I think we'll be right back to where we were. Great call. Thank you very much for asking us. Let's check in with AJ, who was up next. AJ good afternoon, good afternoon, early evening. How are you? Hi, Greg, Paul. How are you doing? Quite well, thank you.
The Auideo Show
"commissioner" Discussed on The Auideo Show
"I was able to get half a half a million dollars allocated from our arpaio funds which is the american ask plan fund which is like of the last covert elite package that we got access to so i was able to allocate five hundred dollars of that to actually direct assistance to individuals who were sleeping impacted by the pandemic. So we got trillion dollars. I wanted to get a lot more dedicated to individuals people who were struggling people that you know that i hear from all the time who are still having a challenging time because of the pandemic but i was able to get five hundred thousand dollars which i think is a good starting point not enough thank you. Yeah yeah so. That's that's one thing that i feel pretty good about that. I think is important in those same conversations. That was part of the group that helps make sure that our That streamline was got their in their entire Budget requests funded so that we could grow and expand our public transit system. You know. I think that it's critical as we think about climate change and how we want to set ourselves up for the future that we invest heavily in public transit And so. I was able to help do that. i Elevated conversations around diversity and inclusion to levels that we've seen before and i think our local politics And really embedded those in some of the policies repass including our brains and effort to consolidate our Advisory board structure so the way that the commission gets information from community. Oftentimes just do these Advisory boards that tells about parking and Climate change and are sort of streets others things we've catholics. Tell us out. So i was able to embed some really basic principles around inclusivity in those policy documents. And i've really continued to make sure that as i'm being a part of any land use decisions that were really centering of affordable housing. So that we're not just talking about nima housing but we're actually. We need more affordable housing people who live here can attain can get in can stay in so those are the things and there's so many more like every time we meet on a tuesday evening. There's like at stacks agenda. Were on all of those things. So there's a lot of other other things. They've been imparted. But those are the ones that come to mind. Let's go back to affordable housing. Yeah because that's definitely a hot hot topic in the. It sucks right now. Yeah why in your opinion. Do you think it's so extreme into saw out of control. Yeah affordable housing is such well just housing in general as the complicated issue for a whole host of reasons and It's definitely a crisis in our community as it is in a lot of meetings. But i think we're experiencing in a different way right now just because we are one of the places in the country that's growing just so rapidly with the fastest growing county in montana. One of the fastest growing in the country. So we're experiencing this like the the housing pressure right now is like very acute for us but There's there's a lot of reasons for that thing you know. In the city of bozeman land that can actually be develop is becoming more scarce. The cost of supplies. Construction is your skyrocketing every time you know. There's every project that's going on. Is you know if it's even delayed a week..
The Auideo Show
"commissioner" Discussed on The Auideo Show
"Five months ago which also how. That's how quickly is moving. that's insane. Yeah so it's been five months. How does one go about getting appointed. So it's not common to get appointed to the city commission. You have to do the only way that really happens is if one of the commissioners sort of steps off of the commission early so before their terms expired so We just happened to have two appointments in the past year for randomly in for our city commission so when that happens the commissioners of which there are five total so in for me there was four commissioners who all voted to appoint me until they kind of went through this application process where anybody who lived in the city of bozeman who was at least eighteen could have applied to be appointed to the commission and then the commissioners the ones who sort of picked to want it to be one of their colleagues so i went to the sprinters twice to process. I just gonna albert went. So there was an opening in october of twenty twenty and so i applied then Didn't get picked in october but had just a lot of public support. And that's what really inspired me to to so Launch my campaign in january of twenty twenty one. I was like you know. There's a moment here where people are asking for something that doesn't currently exist on the boat city commission someone who has more experience that mirror what most people experience in in our town so that really that support that i got even though it wasn't picked in october really sort of made me realize that there was a there was a time and a lot of sort of Energy and enthusiasm for something just a little bit more aligned with what the most common experience is the commission. I felt like i could actually really serve that role really well so i want my campaign in january and then again randomly. In april there was another opening. So i said already running this campaign. Remember me. i wanna be a commissioner. But what better way to show the the you know the people who live in this community with me that i'm that i'm excited and to serve And really worthy of their vote. They actually doing that job. And so i applied again in april on the key. The commissioner has picked me. I've been serving ever since. That's so cool win not give up with it. I respect that good jeff. Yeah thank you. Yeah it wasn't ever. I mean if anything it was more just not getting picked in. October is really just for me. Like okay like nothing about my life really change. I still have my my jobs jobs. I'm doing it wasn't like i. It was a really random opportunity that kinda came up and in october. So i had i had it like a line. My whole life around this one opportunity So let me just see what happens. You see if no if there's if i can get appointed in. You know if i if i appointed only other chance to see if i have like you know being in public office in serving in this way Spoiler i do like it. I love doing it so it was just more of like it was even though i think pick didn't have. It wasn't like earth shattering was more. Okay we'll like let's do this the way where people vote for me then inaugural it that way and you you have to you get appointed. Yeah but you're not technically elected yet no amount elected yet so i was. I was appointed My term technically expires at the end of twenty twenty one. So it's kind of confusing people when they get there when they get their election balances here..
Ahkameyimok Podcast with Perry Bellegarde
"commissioner" Discussed on Ahkameyimok Podcast with Perry Bellegarde
"We did hear of children's bones. Being found in the foundations of buildings. When schools were dismantled. Reheard heard stories of babies being buried. I can barely talk about this myself. We heard of children being thrown into furnaces. I always come back to this and not that. It's right for anyone but these were children. These were children the little ones who woken up this week. Income research children calling out to all of. That's murray wilson former commissioner on the truth and reconciliation commission. She's our guest today on the alchemy. Mcleod guests said to wild. Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host. Perry bell guard national chief december. First nations amok is a plains. Cree word for you. All persevere are other words let's keep going and don't give up on this podcast. We discussed leading issues facing first nations. Peoples top experts with elders and community leaders. And today we're discussing the recent shocking and heartbreaking discovery of the gravesites of two hundred and fifteen children. They were found. On the site of the former kamloops indian residential school at the kamloops up mc first nation in british columbia it is shocking but not surprising for the thousands of first nations people who survived the genocide residential schools are for those who followed the investigation of the truth and reconciliation commission into the residential schools. And the report that came out in two thousand fifteen. Its final report detail. The deaths of thousands of children at residential schools and rightly predicted that. There were still many more. Who's desks weren't accounted for today. We're very grateful to be joined from yellowknife in the northwest territories. Marie wilson. She was one of the three commissioners of truth and reconciliation commission. So marie big. Welcome to our podcast. Thank you so much. I'm so glad to be here to summary. What was your reaction last week. When you first heard about the discovery of the gravesite at kamloops you know. I received this news early in the morning. Just as i was waking and my first physical reaction was just immediately to well up with tears and to sort of sit up and try to take it all in I immediately went as they prepared for my own morning rituals. And i and i'm just radley at her. I picked up my. She'd go which was conveyed to me with a particular responsibility by the women of she sacerby when we held hearings there back in two thousand thirteen and as the one female commissioner. The mother of the group i was Given the responsibility in the direction to do all that we could to make sure that the little children were freed and that they were never forgotton and that they knew that we would not stop looking for them and so I held them in that way In my in my arms and my next thought as i think any human being in this country would have been west to think of my own children and my own grandchildren And to hold them close in my thought but i immediately transported myself to the the heartbreak That had to be resounding In in the whole area of kamloops. Because i remember my very first community event ask commissioner. It was before the three commissioners were even functioning as a team actually It was in the first weeks. August of two thousand nine. The gathering that i went to wasn't kamloops. Remember being invited to tour the school and beyond the grounds and i remembered clearly and it came surging back to me deep in my gut. The feeling that i had at that time the credible heaviness that i had there and the weight of that gathering and at the same time The embrace of the determination that was expressed by the people who had prepared that event with so much love and care and and hope that we would be able to start shedding light on all of this history so it was a barrage of feelings on all those levels as human being as a mother as a grandmother as a commissioner and as one in this country who joins the in the morning and the outpouring of grief on and the expectation that we can and must do much better. Yeah the the sad part was that are survivors of the resentful school. Set for many many years that there was a lot of death and a lot of children missing and not accounted for the schools. The sad part was that nobody believes them. Nobody believes survivors. And so now. Here's a horrific evidence and all all week as i've been invited to to comment on this. It's one of the things that i've said. Is you know. I reject the word discovery. It is a validation. It is a validation of what we have been told over and over and over again what we wrote about in detail what we articulated particularly and specifically in our calls to action seventy to seventy five And what we heard from our very first national event when there was a minister of the then conservative government sitting in circle with a former chief saying their hope for us is that they would we would be able to find their missing relative. The issue of missing children was raised from the very earliest days and has been available as information to anyone paying attention to our work to anyone listening to survivors and sitting in whatever stripe of government. Because i being permission has been available to us all. Thank you for that Validation in terms of the survivors in discovery really isn't the right word. The validation of words validation of testimony. The validation of statements by survivors is very powerful with this horrific evidence. That was found that based on your work as a commissioner of the truth and reconciliation commission What are your thoughts regarding the unmarked graves. Think still exists out there. And i know there was documented of forty one hundred deaths. I believe at the schools Can you shed any more light about the who were when. Why are some of the statistics or numbers Some of the issues that you thought.
NoCo Now ? 1310 KFKA
"commissioner" Discussed on NoCo Now ? 1310 KFKA
"Forty welcome back into the auto collusion specialist studios. Tanner schwinn thanks for being with me here so far i'm over two on not bringing up covert in the last two segments. We'll see if. I can do better here in the next two as commissioner marino county commissioner chairman steve marino and commissioner. Mike freeman joining me this morning. So wanna get noattacks era. What do you think makes well county. Stand above other counties commissioner. Moreno will start with you on that. It's just so here's a softball question. Go go knock it out. Steve home commissioner. Anybody for a county. Commissioner position knows that the fact of this county being debt free no county sales tax one of the lowest lives in the state here in one of the strongest reserves out there For county here. I mean Who would not want to be part of this county here. This is just a great place to live so much offered here with those things in mind there to know that you have a government here running without any county sales tax or any county debt. They're not everything's paid for here and you look back. This is the the example here. Forty six million dollar expansion. The county jail fully-funded when when we went on to expand when you look at the county road parkway forty nine when we rode the public safety there to look at from a two lane county road to connect the State highway thirty four Interstate seventy six there and you turn into five lane manage laying there and it's a hundred and fifty million dollars without any indebtness to the taxpayers of this county. Yeah well i You could see the passion and his eyes lit up. Commissioner freeman What do you think makes weld county staying above other counties. I don't think i could say any better than what kind of did i mean that. That is what that i mean. We've got probably one of the only completely funded Retirement plans in the nation We are You know we are extremely strong financially at. We.
NoCo Now ? 1310 KFKA
"commissioner" Discussed on NoCo Now ? 1310 KFKA
"And i have lost a dear friend of mine that i grew up in high school with the net That died from a covenant. Had some friends and family members of governor sick from this and you know we experienced this too. It's not like we're immune from this. This virus out there and i know commissioner franken. Speak to that too. He's lost lost friends in that too. You know we. We were being as response was we could there through this whole process but people individually have to be responsible through this viruses out there right well and it comes back to what you're saying there's risk involved with everything that you're doing and and it's it's a tough line to walk because there is emotional strings that you know that the pull on people and and when you do lose a loved one from it and then it gets a little bit even more more emotional but you guys were walking this line of Of saying yeah. We understand what's going on. We're going to do what we can to help protect but we also have to protect You know why this how this country was founded and we were in two thousand twenty and now twenty twenty one and a little bit. We were quarantining the healthy you know and that that's something we've never done before. Now you're absolutely right and You know that's one of the things that was always interesting to me about the whole testing thing so you you know so you say well. I've been exposed. I know that. I was exposed to somebody so i go get a to go get a test. Well if i test positive they tell me to stay home for in quarantine for ten days. If i test negative they tell me to quarantine for fourteen days because on might get it in the next few days to me. That's over the top. Here's the thing at the end of the day. If you're sick stay home right when you get to feeling better go back to work whether it's covert whether it's the flu whether it's whatever you know be responsible stay home if you're sick..
NoCo Now ? 1310 KFKA
"commissioner" Discussed on NoCo Now ? 1310 KFKA
"There's other issues going on out right. Yeah and i think that's. I think that's absolutely accurate. Mike what what is it. Was it the hospitalizations. What number is it that that you look at still to stay. Well it absolutely is deaths in hospitalizations. It doesn't have anything to do. With cases i mean. Here's the thing so you know i know of a number of cases where You know somebody gets tested positive. And they actually know a guy that went back and got. It took him seventeen more tests before he could get a negative test. So you could go back to work all of that's going into the factor so in other words what's going on as you might still test positive. Six eight ten twelve weeks after you've had covert right. So that does not the case numbers. And the on the positivity rates are not to me. That's that's a relevant. It completely irrelevant. It really is deaths and hospitalizations and as we've come into this new strain or whatever we're doing now we've certainly seen an increase in hospitalizations. We have not seen hardly any increase in deaths. So i think that's i think to me. That's the big factor in this thing. Yeah i think that's the that's the only one that we really should be looked at And what's going to be interesting. Is going to be how we change out of this rhetoric that you know if you are just sick you know you wouldn't go see your grandma if you had the flu right and shouldn't go see your grandma if you have covert Let's get real quick into this. Because i want to get all the kotok kind of out of the way here in this first segment so we can move on to other things. I know that's a crazy concept to nowadays. But let's talk about this vaccine. We've seen some governments Some city governments that have required the vaccination and threatened termination of employment. I if that is not done by their employees your thoughts on that. And then we'll weld county. Ever incorporate something like that. The answer is absolutely not love. County will never do that. Just like well. County did not did not mandate mass during the last time We're just not doing that. We're that is not the way. Well county government works so You know. I guess everybody has a right to do that. I find it. I find it. I can't believe that it's actually constitutional legal to be able to insist as an employer that somebody gets a covert vaccine seems to me like. It violates hippo laws and whatever else you can't you can't mandate somebody to get a measles shot or chicken pox or whatever and so to be able to do that. I think is i think it's overreach but i guess individual. Employers can do what they do. I'd agree with commissioner freeman on nafta kanter again just on a personal thinking about myself. I got vaccine. My my wife got the vaccine..
First Take
"commissioner" Discussed on First Take
"Of motivated. No one's going to be more motivated than aaron rodgers right. This is why they're going to have a hard time. You bring up the rams and we know why stafford the defense building. Aaron rodgers after everything. That just happened to the fact that he got the ball out of his hands last year. Aaron rodgers but no one took the ball out of his hands with the game on the line and handed it to tom. Brady like an every year. Rogers is getting closer with leflore right. He's looking better. The team is getting a little closer. It's on in the nfc. what's going on. everybody. I'm only care rose and you're listening to the first league podcast with room. You can buy a car entirely online. Have it delivered straight to. You never have to go to a dealership again. Instead of going to a dealership you can buy a car from home apart or even as you listen to this. Podcast literally anywhere else with room. You can browse thousands of cars in one place. You don't have to spend your weekend driving to a million different dealerships and when you shop on broome dot com. You never have to hagler negotiate with pushy salesmen. When you sell your car in broome you get a price instantly. You don't have to waste time at a dealership anymore. Room is entirely online so next time you need to buy a car. Just grab your phone. Go to dot com and check out. Thousands of great cars have a great day. Jalen hurts continues to try to win the starting job for the eagles. But our own tim. Mcmanus said that second year quarterback struggle this weekend. Noting saturday wasn't as best as here's.
First Take
"commissioner" Discussed on First Take
"There. You give him four years. I can get it okay. That that's fair but that that requires trust. And what i'm saying to you. Is that when you're in court wildlands position. I personally believe you have an obligation to be more than just a great player. You gotta be a leader. You gotta be the face of a franchise. If lebron james pulled up portion of the stuff that violated his pull. Do you never hear all over him. We would crucify him. It's a shame and kendrick perkins was right when he said that it's a shame that collide linnet has flown under the radar and has gotten away with some of the stuff that he's gotten away with in hijacking the clippers organization. But stephen i think part of that is how he lays low you know. He's not on social media doesn't talk much so he can't reminder people's radars you know i just wanna mention one thing guys. He is just thirty still. I mean when we're talking about guys step solar katie's older than i mean. We know the laker. So he's a star. He's a superstar talent. The talent and a champion. I'm just talking about when you talk about building a culture long-term you can't have young guys around constantly seeing that stuff you take off when you want you play when you want in all of this other stuff. That's not a good thing to build around. Hey i'm really care. Rose and you're listening to the first take podcast. Brook ball is almost here. In draftkings the official daily fantasy partner of the nfl is giving you a shot to turn big plays into even bigger prizes. Introducing new instant win challenge from draftkings wildcards. Download the draftkings that now to claim your first wild card for free. There's up to fifty million dollars worth of prizes up for grabs with one and four winning instantly. It's easy download the app to claim your first wild car which will reveal either weekly player challenges or instant win prizes. Like tickets to the super bowl. One in four went instantly. 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What is a few things that could stop the bucks. A lot of people think kansas city. I would say long before that. I think you've got the los angeles rams like we've talked about with matthew staff and now is their quarterback With some of the requisite weapons that they have and and robin woods and kupa cup in those boys are not lost cam acres That was a that was a loss but They had another running back here that rest for over six hundred yards. And you've got that and they've got one of the best defences the entire national football league in an absolute stud aaron donald so i think the combination of all of those leaves them is incredibly formidable. We can't forget. The green bay packers. Because rogers can't make all of this noise being that bad man he is. He can't make all of this noise in the off season and then come in and wet the bed disease it because i think it would validate everything that the green bay packers hinted at when they drafted jordan love. So yeah he kind of you know napalm net nonsense by going out there and putting forth an mvp season but now the this off season the and so he's going to be just as motivated as he wasn't a pass because he's got to show that he didn't make all of this noise for nothing he can't attach any validity to what green bay tried to put out about him about his days being numbered. So i think we gotta pay attention to green bay. I think we've got to pay attention to obviously los angeles. I can't sniff at san francisco. Because i think the defense is going to be back on track. And whether this jimmy garoppolo or trade nance i think they'll be in the mix and of course russell wilson seattle so agassi all of those things being a potential impediment to tampa bay success. Even though i clearly have tampa bay is favorites to come out of the nfc. I think look are the packers and and sure the rams are they threats to the bucks. Absolutely they are but if you ask me what's the thing that can stop the box. I got to choose one. I'm going to take the kansas city chiefs boring right. That's what everyone would say the chiefs. But i'm going to do it. The most spectacular player in the super bowl last year meeting the guy you'll remember his actual plays from that super bowl. Was the losing quarterback. Who's the guy mystically didn't look like the guy who is running for his life on every play. Remember both tackles were missing both three offensive. Linemen started we're gone as a result he was facing patrick. Mahomes more pressure on each snap than any player in the super bowl ever live pressured on a higher percentage of snaps than anyone ever and of course they only had to bring enough to bring any extra guys and so no one was ever open and yet the home doing super human thing what he was doing now the chiefs through in the austin patrick mahomes have to go round waving around. You better get offense line. No tape brought in orlando brown. Who's an elite left tackle. They shot signed jo. Tony who is an elite left guard. They brought in blyth from the rams stephen as from your rams who's competing among some other candidates to play at center remers still on the right. They'd completely revamped their offensive line at the highest possible level. The chiefs are the ones who pose the biggest threat because they have patrick mahomes who has a great offensive line on paper now and an embarrassment of riches in.
First Take
"commissioner" Discussed on First Take
"Let's catch up on what's been a busy. Nba offseason the lakers traded for former mvp russell. Westbrook loaded la. Now has four of the top eight active players in career points per game. What lebron ad russ in mellow steph. Curry agreed to a four year. Two hundred fifteen million dollars extension with the warriors last season curry joined michael jordan as the only players aged thirty three older to win the scoring title fresh off caring team. Usa throughout the olympics and winning his third gold medal. Kevin durant signed a four year. One hundred and nine hundred million dollars extension with the brooklyn nets and leonard agreed to re sign with the clippers after opting out of his original contract. Leonard is expected to miss significant time as he recovers from an acl injury. Max kellerman. i know who. I won't be back for some time. But tell me this. Will he win title with the clippers. I think eventually he will. I don't think who is done winning championships. And i think it'll be with the clippers. He's going to sign long-term there. He is still in his prime. He look michael. Jordan ruined a lot of guys in terms of comparisons. Because he came around and once he hit his pray never missed games and once he hit his prime he just won the championship every year and so nowadays a year goes by and you know like koby a first and then lebron or something what happened. You didn't win the championship. Well you weren't supposed to win the championship every year until mj came along and he did it to himself. He told lebron and everything all this pressure on himself but kawais being held to that standard he didn't win the championship again. That's two years even though you choke the first year had a great series choked in the game seven and but but like wasn't available this year because of injury. That's going to happen. He's injury he's gonna miss some seasons he's chunks of seasons. You might miss the playoffs. He's gonna you're gonna have to manage him. Which is going to get on people's nerves and then he's filled may be absent for a time but he has how many more bites at the apple in la. For a steve bomber team. A guy was clearly willing to spend money to make the team. Good paul george is on the team. You have guys like terrence mann ascending young talent team. They just raft jason preston. Who is lame making. Set up your teammates. Type point guard imaginative playmaker. They're hoping that they have lacked recently. Because patrick beverley rondo also didn't do the job. When you have y and paul georgia's you're cornerstones an owner willing to spend money and you're gonna get four five more bites at the apple. I'm gonna go ahead and say that a two-time finals. Mvp at some point is going to get it done again. I'm not going to be stupid. And say that a guy who six seven six eight With his myriad of skills and championship pedigree who just averaged thirty on fifty seven percent shooting in eleven playoff games. Nowhere heli championship. That's just ignorant. I'm not gonna say that what i'll say to you max. Kellerman is that. I have my doubts and i have strong doubts and if several reasons number one i'm on the record i would not give a while a long term contract. I don't blame the clippers if they do. But i wouldn't do it because even though i consider him a top five talent in the game when healthy. He's not a culture builder. He's a guy that dragged grabs his lunch pail and does what he does. And at the end of the day when the buzzer. Sounds when when tip off arrives he shows up for practicing when you want to working out when you want to a plan when you want to and what have you. I just don't think that's a great great thing and from everything that we've been told that's what he does. Nobody said he's a bad guy. Nobody said teammates dislike him or anything like that. I'm not trying to engage in that kind of of of of cynicism. I'm simply saying look at. The game played in the last few years. He hasn't played sixty. He hasn't played more than sixty games. I think the last four years. This man takes tom off any operates his own beat and even though that works for him it compromises everything else. It's similar to what i said. Max if you recall when kyrie irving was talking about. We don't really need a coach. My response was kyri might not. because he's electrifying. He's boxoffice put those other plays. Did an went. Kyri went down and kevin durant was looking for help. It was hard to find because of the lack of experience person on the sideline to make sure all of those dudes around were ready. Not steve national. Learn from that and even better this upcoming. I think it helps that. He's not going to have mike dantonio on the bench with them. Okay but the bottom line is that was a hindrance. When i look at the clippers i think about kawhi leonard and how that hindu i also think about the fact that i'm thinking about lucas donncha and ludovic at six seven game series that they played max thirty one thirty nine forty four forty two twenty nine forty six. Where's the hell of the defensive as leonard to do something about that kind of individual dominate. Because that's what luka was doing them which is why the series went seven games. We gotta pay attention to that. We got pay attention significant competition in the western conference. The only reason why would summarily dismissed. What you're saying max is because i happen to think that tai lue can make an argument that he's the best coach in basketball right right now i am. Because he's that good of a coach and you've got some personnel around him not to mitch. You got over that hump finally get to the conference finals. The drafting that kid on johnson. I like as well. I'm just looking at the los angeles clippers. Do they have a chance. Yes would i bet my money on it. No well in the playoffs. It would be wise to bet your money on kawai letter. Because he's one of the all time great performers. You mentioned tie lou believe he is the best coach basketball. We saw it again. These last playoffs. If you look go back and look at what now look great offensive player. Stephen is going to get his. I don't care who is on. I mean put dennis rodman you know dennis rodman you mean luke luke. I'm saying you can put whoever you want on a great offensive player if they got it. There's not so much that can be done particularly in this. Nba the way. The rules are enforced. So do you believe yes. No kawhi is a great defensive player. I believe he's one of the greatest defensive players ever even if he's not quite what he was a couple of years ago defensively. I'll give you that. He's still a great defensive player. You go back and look at the playoff series like you mentioned thirty thirty points a game on the fifty five fifty eight percent shooting whatever. Here's playoff series. Just going back to two thousand seventeen. This is what he averaged in each series twenty seven thirty to twenty four thirty three twenty nine thirty thirty five twenty eight twenty six twenty four thirty one. He's he's doing it on great shooting and he's doing with defense like you think he's not a culture builder any great teams going to have at least two max contract type guys. Nowadays right can be one of them. Yes he can yes. He'll frequently be the best in the series. You cannot justify not paying him. Like i think year. Here's what i'm trying to say max. I have no problem with hawaii. Mu- lennon's money. I think he deserves every penny. It's the years that i have a problem with him with trump because i i- durability ability as a question mark and i think his level of commitment towards being something more than just a great player plays a role of hit. The not july. Stephen a. on the long term deal because if it was one or two years maybe he doesn't win a chip with them but remember the clippers have never wanted to shake. That's the way he's been.
Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
"commissioner" Discussed on Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
"Listener supported w nyc studios with us now former new york city police. Commissioner bill bratton. Who from what i read is still influential in new york. City law enforcement policy as an advisor to eric adams. Commissioner bratton has a new book called the profession a memoir of community race and the ark of policing in america. Now for those of you don't know some of the history bill. Bratton was first hired by mayor. David dinkins to be the transit police commissioner when that was a separate force in nineteen ninety the reduction in crime there on his watch. Lead mayor rudy giuliani to hire him as nypd commissioner in nineteen ninety four when he took office and mayor. Bill de blasios brought him back again as his first police. Commissioner during the blasios. I turn beginning in twenty fourteen. Not many people can say they were rudy giuliani and built a blasios first choice to do anything and the new york times did report the other day that bratton is now advising democratic nominee for mayor. Eric adams who was actually on the transit police back during britain's first stint in new york under mayor dinkins. The book is both a memoir of brattin's various stints on the job in new york and elsewhere and a discussion of the difficult criminal justice issues facing the country today. commissioner bratton. Thanks for coming on. Welcome back to wnyc. It's great to be with you and your audience this morning thank you. Let's talk about what has become your signature. Approach approach to policing known as the broken windows theory Which you write about at length in the book for people who have only heard the term used on the news and maybe loosely or inaccurately what is broken windows policing according to you who implemented it well first off Brian it is one of the strategies that i employ. It is not a singular strategy. I also employed position policing cop stat back in nineteen ninety. Four sir robert peel in eighteen twenty nine articulated at best when he defied that the mission of the police is to prevent crime and disorder seventies and eighties. We focused almost entirely on just dealing with crime and not disorder. We see that. God us by nineteen ninety. New york place was a mess in terms of the quality of life. Wilkin windows issues on the street. So i am a strong advocate of it. But i'm also a strong advocate of physician policing in the to being used together. It's like doctor dealing with a patient. He just doesn't deal with this most significant issue or illness life threatening also all the other illnesses that might impact on the treatment. That serious illness. So if your audience broken windows or quality of life Issues if.