in chattanooga alone, between the months of march and may 1864 there were 165 rail cars unloading on a daily basis there. he is building supply bases he will need as he advances into georgia. during the campaign, he had about 5000 wagons that were constantly on the move from the railroad to the army in the field. as richard mcmurray writes in one of the best overviews of the campaign -- and like other speakers you have heard, i am going to throw out some book titles. mcmurray's atlanta 1864 is a very good overview. decision in the west by albert castel is also a great book. mcmurray points out that sherman had a couple of big advantages over his opponent at the start of the atlanta campaign. first, sherman had command of a vast apartment that stretched from the appellation mountains in the east all the way to the mississippi river. he commanded troops through this vast division of the mississippi. johnson, on the other hand, commanded a much smaller department. he had no authority over the states of alabama and mississippi. he could not ordered troops from those states to join his ar

i'm looking at chattanooga tennessee where they have the citywide public network in the country that is reaching every homeowner. it's creating a boom in internet businesses and other related businesses. this would blow away any kind of at twitter tax break. this is where the rest of us can get revenue bond money to build out things like undergrounded and network that reaches everybody. this is an opportunity to get funds to build things out. >> hello. i'm a district 5 resident. i would ask that you look into the chattanooga project, they are providing service ten times faster than what's in your home. that's not streaming netflix faster. that actually allows businesses to really have a competitive advantage over businesses basically anywhere with inferior infrastructure as we have an advantage over businesses in guatemala. so strongly support the attempt to find a way to pay for this and to make sure we have forward thinking of in terms of obviously a smaller additional cost and the huge added benefits that will provide for such a small maternal -- marginal cost. >> good afternoon,

also gone the execution of his brilliant strategy during the campaign and chattanooga and the fall 1863. it should be all the time not just during of few hours on june 3rd, 1864 north the same time should we put a brand on of pedestal. human flesh and blood with flaws. however what is undeniable about grant and then to make it a disappointment or a few days. using it as a stepping stone pretty soon the sites for the southwest the rail junction of petersburg the confederate capital is attacking lee's army in the open field they would attack was logistics'. as for me cold harbor was a tactical victory despite the hits this sustained through the first week of june june 1864, he could hold his army together. leadership and the endurance of the men that he led. the herring that granted minister does nothing like the confederates had seen before but they were worn down and the ability were reduced the capability was reduced to a stand of prolonged attack that is coming in the next two weeks after the fighting ended at cold harbor. now i will pass it over to use. >> thank you mr. davis. so to

out of frustration, sherman orders heavier cannon. 30-pounders from chattanooga. and catch this. when they didn't arrive in time on august 9, he still ordered every rifled gun to fire 50 rounds into the city. we want to make the inside of atlanta too hot to be endured. he's not talking about killing people. but for sherman, in that feline brain of his, the city of atlanta and its buildings loomed as an enemy, something sinister to be damaged and destroyed. as we know, the decisive event of the campaign was when the yankees cut the railroad. and they did so in a map from my first work, above jonesboro, in the vicinity of rough and ready, on the afternoon of august 31. here's, again, another great instance of being long of tooth. when i was growing up in the centennial, we atlantans believed that hood lost jonesboro, the battle fought august 31, september 1, so he had to give up the city. ladies and gentlemen, i've gone through the or like castell. the yankees had cut the line by 4 p.m., two hours or so before lee and hardee launched their attack on the evening of jonesboro. so the

on fiber broadband network in san francisco is very old now and in light of what's happening in chattanooga, it's time for us to now do a new fiber study in san francisco and it would be great to get lafco or at least leverage money from the city or how it works. also we should have lafco right away take up the legislation around hetch hetchy power sales that is being sponsored by supervisor wiener and breed. we met with supervisor today and it's good that we are putting forward legislation that will allow the city and the san francisco public utilities commission to make use of hetch hetchy power here in the county instead of selling it off for a lower price in the county. we need lafco to specifically look at that legislation. we met with andrus about today is to make sure that right now it doesn't mention community choice aggregation. we need to make sure it's addressed extensively and once it's in place in san francisco, that it gets the first priority to buy that power so it can then sell that to customers. that's really crucial and we need to make sure that happens. and so, in my last

also gone is the execution of the strategy during the vicksburg campaign and at the defense of chattanooga in the fall of 1863. viewing grant it should be the entire specter not just a few hours of june 301864. nor at the same time should we grant on the pedestal but see him as a man human flesh and blood with flaws. one thing however that is undeniable that he possessed an uncommon tenacity and will to see go to see the task to the end. for him the cold harbor may have been a disappointment for a few hours or a few days. he saw it as a stepping stone. very soon he would turn his sights to the southwest to the junctions of petersburg, the confederate capital of richmond. instead of attacking his army in the open field he would've decided to attack the logistics. cold harbor is a tactical victory and northern virginia sustained over the course into the first week of 64 we have been able to hold his army together. this was for the endurance of the men that he went into the hammering grant administered was nothing like the confederates had ever seen before. but the army of northern virginia h

gone is the execution of the brilliant strategy during the vicksburg campaign and the defense of chattanooga in the fall of 1863. viewing grant through the entire spectrum not just during a few hours on june 301864 door at the same time should we put grant him a pedestal but see him as a man the human flesh and blood with walls to the cove. he possessed an uncommon tenacity to see a task to the end. for him, cold harbor may have been a disappointment for a few hours and perhaps a few days. he saw it as a stepping stone to the end of the war in virginia. very soon he would turn his sights toward the southwest. in the open field hewitt to these could decide to attack the logistics and cold harbor was a tactical victory despite the tremendous pounding that we and the army sustained over the course of may and into the first week of june of 1864. he had been able to hold his army together. this is a tribute to the leadership and the endurance of the men he led and the hammering that grant administered was nothing like what they had ever seen before. but the army of northern virginia had been worn

we saw that in chattanooga. well.zation has hurt as the legal landscape has changed. it is harder to organize in a union. also, a lot of these new jobs are in the service sector, areas that have not been traditionally unionized. has been pretty aggressive in trying to move into these areas. you heard ms. henry talk about trying to organize professors in colleges, which is not normally the type of workforce you would think would need to be unionized, but a lot of people feel they are not paid well and work conditions are terrible. they have been recep disappear in >> it does not seem to be a priority for a lot of my friends out there. they do not say, i am taking this new job because i get a chance to join the union. they are taking the new job interest inof working for that company. it seems they want to work for a company rather than work for a union. recall, when president obama campaigned in 2008, one of his promises was card check, a member that would make it easier for a union to move into a workplace and organize and get a vote. that felt pretty quickly by the w

they begin the advance southward from the neighborhood of chattanooga, tennessee on down towards atlanta 100 miles. the first movement of the campaign involved a major daring flanking maneuver i mcpherson and the army of the tennessee. he assigned mcpherson to make a flanking maneuver through snake creek gap. it allowed mcpherson to get behind in the confederate army that was facing sherman. it almost worked but not quite. sherman believed mcpherson had missed a big opportunity. he did not blame him. mcpherson felt he could not advance as much as sherman had wanted him to in that movement failed. that was a disappointment for mcpherson. for sherman as well. sherman continued to have high regard for mcpherson. that is because of his skill as an officer and because he was a very personable man. you just don't find people who don't like james mcpherson. he is a charming individual. that is not true of all generals. a lot of generals have an arrogance problem. generals, and sometimes a successful general, is going to have to be self-confident and might be arrogant. that was not the case with

grant's 1863 victories at the vicksburg and chattanooga had made him famous. when grant into washington in march 1864, to meet lincoln and four secretary edward stanton was the first time, he was the object of intense curiosity. grant did not look the part of a great general. he was of medium height, or medium weight. he wore a privates nondescript blue uniform with his general stars sewn on the shoulders. one man said he was an ordinary scruffy looking man with a slightly seedy look. someone else thought something different. the look of a man determined to drive his head through a brick wall. dislike -- dislike in washington and its shoe business, grant chose to direct all the armies while in the field of the army of the potomac, commanded by george meade. with the exception of its great victory at gettysburg, this was a hard look army. it was well-equipped, very large, and slow. the army's sprawling winter camp along the river in northern virginia, grant brought in every available eastern unit until he had over 100,000 men. across the river was the army of n

. >> the emergency response folks from chattanooga were there. the county maintenance guys were there and then a construction company had been called to bring in the equipment that would be needed to break up the rocks that were on the road, get them off. there was one larger rock, and there was a news crew. >> we saw somebody from tdot show up. this young lady got out, and she walked up and looked at me and walked on past, and she glanced at the boulder and then she went over and talked to mr. jones. >> bill mitchell, a 30-year news veteran, has covered many rock slides during his career, but none this big. >> and then she came back over and she said, "why don't you guys move back a little ways." she said, "i'm hearing things up on that mountain that really unnerve me." i said, "what are you hearing?" she said, "i'm hearing pop and snaps and things that make me believe some more debris may come down." so we moved back about 20 yards at that time. >> i heard a sound that sounded like a car door slam. a really sharp rapport. i talked to steve, the

then after college, honed her skills in foreign markets, like chattanooga, charlotte, cleveland, andwas back home here in d.c. where her star shined brightest. and viewers in d.c. have basked in that glow for a quarter century now. much has changed in our town in 25 years. administrations, institutions, demographics, the urban landscape. and through it al doreen has been something of a touch stone. a calm, reassuring presence. somehow making sense of it all. and when national and international events spun in ways that seemed incomprehensible, hers has been the those of reason. and even hope. even if she had to travel far afield to bring the message, as was the case on a hospital ship, layover in the persian gulf during the iraq war. >> i'm on the navy hospital ship "the comfort" in the persian gulf. >> reporter: doreen's compassion for the afflicted and her passion for story-telling have led as it only could to her award-winning franchise as the station and indeed the city's premier health reporter. it is a labor of love and in it, she has no peer. people can tell when someone loves

this has been going on since, my first real job, after, you know, as a page and then i was in chattanooga a job at wabc, 3:00 a.m. shift and -- >> jimmy: oh. >> since then, i was like, i'm resigned to be a science experiment. >> jimmy: did you like doing that shift? >> did i like it? i cherished the time. >> jimmy: i see. >> it was a very special time for me. me and, like, felons going to work. what's up, boys? >> jimmy: there is something peaceful about that -- i used to do morning radio and you get up at 3:30 in the morning and there's nobody else around. >> you just keep hoping that, you know, some day i'll have a job where i can actually sleep in. >> jimmy: and then you get on "good morning america." >> yes! >> jimmy: if everyone would ail agree to get up a little later, you wouldn't have to get up so early. stupid america has to get up so early. where were you a page? >> at nbc. do you remember 30 rock? i really feel he validated my time there, wearing the poll vester skirt and giving a tour and i went to katie couric and -- >> jimmy: oh, yeah. >> i really did -- i was a real nbc pag

began in earlyat midnear chattanooga, now by july has reached the outskirts of atlanta.at that point, the confederate president became dissatisfied. defending atlanta. he believed that general had retreated to many times. when sherman puts a move on you like that, you have a choice. you can retreat or you can fight. you can retreat or attack. robert e lee always attacked in virginia. johnston had always retreated. that is why they were in the outskirts of atlanta. the confederate president was not happy. he sachsen johnston and replace johnston and replace him with john bell hood. subordinate advise them that goodwill attack -- hood will attack. he did attack after three days in command, that army of the cumberland north of atlanta without success. sherman had a turning maneuver going on at that time. he was putting a move on hood. sweeney army of the tennessee to the east side of atlanta -- swinging the army of the tennessee to the east side of atlanta. near the atlanta zoo. that neighborhood may be more dangerous now than it was then. like some not so well preserved ci

they set examples like chattanooga, tennessee where the municipally funded high-speed network built inlps to track new tech firms, entrepreneurs, and investors. the town of rockport, maine wants to try something similar. rockport partnered with local provider gwi and the state to fund and build a one gigabit service to businesses and residences. also taptowns will local tax dollars and state coffers to build last mile connections on their own and lease them back to service providers. >> we will hope that the market flights would do it if they could do it. they likely will not do it on their own. they will not take that risk and yet it's essential to our growth and development. rockport is a small town effort but the hope is that as broadband effort expands, so will the maine economy. >> michael mckee is with us now. how much greater could the great state of maine be if they had these high-speed internet connections? >> there is not a specific number you can put on it. the broadband association says about richard percent of all new jobs are connected to broadband services. theyto people

examples like chattanooga, tennessee where the municipally funded high-speed network built in 2010 helped new tech firms, entrepreneurs, and investors. the town of rockport, maine, wants to try something similar. rockport partnered with local to goer gwi and the state the one gigabit service to businesses and residents. will also tapowns local tax dollars in state coffers to build connections on their own and lease them back to service providers. >> we would hope that the marketplace would do it if they could do it or it they likely will not do it on our own. they will not take that risk and yet is as essential to the growth and development of the state. >> these are small-scale efforts but the hope is that as broadband efforts expand, so will maine's economy. mckee isght, michael back here on how the service providers -- you experience this -- how are they reacting to this? wi is partnering with some of these towns. cable and fairpoint communications say that it's a slippery slope. they want to do what they can but they cannot make any money and that the government gets involved, it dist

the workers in chattanooga voted against the uaw. we're in the process of looking at a situation where the united auto workers are setting local union, local 42 in chattanooga and it is a union. only exciting to see what they're doing they realized if they workers, they want to join voluntarily, they're not and they can't force anyone to pay dues in tennessee. we've got a y, majority, they're volunteer to our union. can you recognize us. to your point, in tennessee, the employer and the union officials trying to get the workers to join the union. when they voted in a secret that i voted against representation. host: can union workers opt out dues.ying for guest: not easy, they can. a difficult decision for them. wo cases in the right to work foundation litigated both of them. it was a supreme court case that decided in 1988. what the supreme court said in hat case, we found out there was a telephone line, harry beck out in oregon. he lives in la plata, maryland. spending hishe was money on things he didn't agree with in candidate. al

, for example, we have had an ongoing organizing effort in the volkswagen plant in chagging --n chattanooga. employees at the volkswagen plant said we don't want a union, we don't need a union. 712-626, they rejected the united auto workers bid to unionize the plant. imagine if you're someone of those 712 employees who voted against unionizing, now organizers can get your private young people address and all this other personal information. or here's another example. small factions of employees within single stores now have a path to forming their own unions. in 2011, the board suddenly adopted a new way to define what makes a local union bargaining unit. the board changed the law so that any group of employees with an overwhelming community of interest could become a bargaining unit and therefore a union. at the same time, the board's moving a regulation to limit the employer's ability to question which employees should be in a bargaining union. this allows a union to cherry pick employees who will be most likely to support forming a union. how has this worked in the real world? here's an