ten years ago, as founder robert egger and in the interest of full disclosure, like robert officiated our wedding. so i'm kind of in the tank here. i'm not impartial here. but when robert left to go west, just over years ago, i didn't want to lose that institutional memory. and i wanted to make sure that the all the people who worked with robert in his early days could have their stories told. and i wanted to disrupt those traditional ways we talk about nonprofits, right? think about the stories we tell about charities in america right there. either charity cases, they sort of simply listed transactional relationships. it's a story of a visionary founder who had a great idea and everything worked great that no offense to robert, but that's not how things work. right? or charities get in the news when they do something wrong. right. they don't use other people's funds or trust. well, and i looked at the story of the kitchen, these improbable heroes, and saw a narrative that hit all of those things with a brick. right. and the real story of a successful nonprofit is people, individual p

an idealistic young guy who read our founder, robert egger's book. fighting hunger differently and trying to break the generational, the destructive generational cycle of -- or cycles of incarceration, addiction, abuse, and ultimately poverty. and alex came to us and spent a semester here working out of his office or what we -- many people refer to as a box and a chair with -- it had at least three legs, i think, alex. we were pretty good at that point in time. alex went back to academia, came back and forth, toggled back and forth at d.c. central kitchen, doing some grants. and finally, i think, just sort of gave up that hope he might do something his parents might have wanted him to do and came to work in that shelter basement on second street. and he's been here ever since. and his -- his contributions have been immeasurable. and without a question incredibly important to each and every step that we've taken and iteration that we've made and evolution that we've experienced. he started as a grant writer, moved into a leader, ultimately the directo

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. >> shorten egger, of course, served as a republican governor for california after the recall of gray davis back in 2003. >> tonight, we're looking at a ballot measure seeking to make it easier for local communities to pass bond measures. our capitol correspondent eytan wallace reports. >> it's one of the major statewide measures on your ballot prop 5, if approved by boaters, it would make it easier for communities to borrow money specifically lowering the voter threshold needed to approve local bonds that help fund infrastructure and affordable housing projects. as it stands today for the state constitution. any time a local government puts a bond measure on the ballot in need at least 2 thirds voter approval to pass, but should prompt 5 become law. local bonds would need just 55% to pass the current system is really. >> and democratic in that it a small, narrow minority to dictate over the rest of us. it's a two-thirds requirement and that's really on bayard. that's why cathy creswell with the sacramento housing alliance says prompt 5 is needed prompt puts the power into local voter

ten years ago, as our founderrers robert egger and in full disclosure, robert headed our wedding. i didn't want to lose that institutional memory. think the stories we tell about charities in america, they're either charity cases and these simplistic relationships. it's the story of a visionary founder who had a great idea and everything worked great after that. no offense to robert, but that's not how things work, right? or the charity's get in the news when they do something wrong. they don't use someone else's funds or trust well. i saw a narrative that hit all of those with a brick. the real story of successful nonprofit is people. individual people from all backgrounds, all experiences, choosing to take that grand vision, those core values, those enduring principles to the little small choices we all make everyday from putting on our pants in the morning, coming to work on time, saying yeah, another 250 meals. it was a story i couldn't help but write. ionly wanted to write the damn thing one time. i really thought i was done. but this fall, i kept hearing this drip, drip, dri

. >> steve: lawrence, you have got a focus group right behind you at the steak and egger there in michigan lawrence: let's talk with some folks. [applause] gosh. >> lawrence: tell me, who do you think won the debate and why? >> pretty obvious j.d. vance won that debate. >> lawrence: why is that? i'm going to let you chew a little bit. pardon me. i'm sorry. let's go to you, ma'am, how do you feel about the debate last night? >> i really did watch all of it, i just saw a little bit of it. i really did think vance was great. >> lawrence: why is that? >> well, just the things that he stands for, you know. he is genuine. is he real. he is what we really need. >> lawrence: thank you so much. what about you, ma'am? what do you think about last night's debate performance in the governor tried to apologize in some way or say, you know, he misspoke when it came to him being in china during the protest. did you believe him though? >> well, i didn't see that. i watched the first half hour. and i felt he looked scared and like a bully. i didn't think he did that well from what i saw. >> lawrence: how a

former head of the russian intelligence service john sipher and journalist-foreign agent konstantin eggertremist gary kasparov, journalist- foreign agent evgenia albats and john teft, the us ambassador to russia, were invited to participate in the war game , representatives were also invited. us. while kiev claims that its troops are advancing in the kursk region, dire warning from the international atomic energy agency. at the end of the game, mcfaul and his team prepared an analysis focusing on four possible scenarios: a sharp drop in the president's rating, the emergence of a revolutionary movement in russia after the attack by the ukrainian armed forces, the use of nuclear weapons by russia and the lack of a strong response from... in populated areas where the ukrainian military is stationed, there is constant shelling, we couldn't even move to a larger city because we are constantly being attacked by drones. it is unclear how long ukraine will be able to hold on to these territories. russia is conducting a large-scale counteroffensive operation to liberate the entire kursk region. th

former head of the russian intelligence service john sipher and journalist foreign agent konstantin eggertremist gary kasparov, journalist foreign agent evgenia albats and john teft, ambassador the united states in russia. representatives of the us government were also invited to observe the war game. i will leave it to the ukrainian officials to talk about the details of their operation. we are in contact with our ukrainian colleagues to find out a little more about what is going on. after the game , mcfaul and his team prepared an analysis focusing on four possible scenarios: a sharp drop in the president's rating, the emergence of a revolutionary movement in russia after the attack by the ukrainian armed forces, the use of nuclear weapons by russia, and the absence of a sharp response from russia. game witness gary kasparov said at the end of august that the ukrainian armed forces in the kursk region were surrounding a large group of russian troops and... taking control of the kurdish nuclear power plant. i think that the political gain that the zelensky administration has already rece