commissioner casciato, have you completed your comments? i am coming back to you. >> commissioner: commissioner driscoll brings up a good point. i don't know if he could put that in the form of a separate motion that does not affect the entire strategic plan. >> i guess you are saying you would like a motion on what he stated -- >> commissioner: i am looking at commissioner driscoll to ask him how he would bifurcate that out of this strategic plan so we don't -- what i am fearing is i am fearing that we would kill the entire strategic plan and i don't want to do that. >> president: i don't think that is what they recommend is that we kill the entire plan. that is not what i heard. what i heard is extracting a component of this out and then approving the rest of the plan. if i misinterpreted it, please correct me. >> commissioner: well, that's what i interpreted from commissioner driscoll. i want to see how that could be handled. >> commissioner: i will chime in. >> president: did i have it right, commissioner stansbury, that you were only s

commissioner casciato, have you completed your comments? i am coming back to you. >> commissioner: commissioner driscoll brings up a good point. i don't know if he could put that in the form of a separate motion that does not affect the entire strategic plan. >> i guess you are saying you would like a motion on what he stated -- >> commissioner: i am looking at commissioner driscoll to ask him how he would bifurcate that out of this strategic plan so we don't -- what i am fearing is i am fearing that we would kill the entire strategic plan and i don't want to do that. >> president: i don't think that is what they recommend is that we kill the entire plan. that is not what i heard. what i heard is extracting a component of this out and then approving the rest of the plan. if i misinterpreted it, please correct me. >> commissioner: well, that's what i interpreted from commissioner driscoll. i want to see how that could be handled. >> commissioner: i will chime in. >> president: did i have it right, commissioner stansbury, that you were only s

least a story-- of his newshour weekend special correspondent tom casciato has more. >> ♪ sometimes ilike my brain turns to leaves... ♪ >> reporter: rufus wainwright's most recent album is called "unfollow the rules..." >> ♪ unfollow the rules... >> reporter:..and he's always ready to do just that. listen to him disrupt this fluid melo wh a single note. ( discordant piano note ) >> et♪ ses i feel... >> reporter: this is the artist, after all, o earned his first grammy nomination 12 years ago recreating a famed 1961 performance judy garland. >> ♪ we're going to be going to t promised land. ♪ we're heading across the >> reporter: now, he's unfollowed the rules again with a unique audio autobiography called "road trip elegies." >> ♪ there's no business like show business, like no business i know... ♪ >> reporter: it combinrf mance with conversations held on an almost 400-mile car trip from his hometown of montreal all the way to neyork city, conversations with his therapist. >> i just had this vision all of a sudden of creating, like, a kind oonf podcast-type situa but involving both my

. >> hill: and finally, we hear from tom casciato on some of the stories worked on last year. >> sreenivasans the pandemic s in, we started doing stories about how it was affecting busineales large and l, and you focused on a bookstore in portland. tell us about it. >> reporter: yeah, portland's my hometown, and i think anybody who's been to portland or livnd in portnows how central powell's books is to the city. ital's hard toabout a store being a major cultural inhastitution, but ts exactly what powell's is. for decade the center of >> you know, when people come to visit portland, visiting f thel's is at the top list.you know, when you go to a city-- when you go to paris, you want to see the eiffel tower. you go to portland, you want to go to powell's bookstore. >> reporter: samiya bashir, a poet, and a profess at portland's reed college, says powell's is special for reader and for writers. each year powell's' 500-or-so readings draw an estimated 36,000 people-- big numbers in >> reporter: it became very scary when covid hit and it looked like powell's might cl se. they'll hanging on now.