howard frank mosher is someone who comes to mind who is in many ways the quintessential vermont novelist who writes about vermont and has maple syrup and his name. he is a terrific writer. he lives locally here and howard frank patterson who is best known for her work which is remarkable, young adult novel which is remarkable in a way. i think there is a real core anchor. it's one of those odd literary cultures and places where people gather that you know in the northeast part of the country. you would have to go to brooklyn new york ticket as close. particularly for writers, unlike a lot of places we are a front porch culture, not a backyard culture so you get to know your neighbors and you rely on your neighbors. you learn how to work together and depend on each other and from that comes the heart of what makes the story because you know people so you know what happens in their lives. there are not many communities in america like that anymore sadly i think. they have the scale, scope and size and the kind of big sense of community and they are all in this together. we are unique town

mosher many in libya's capital have said their supreme security committee headquarters on fire and looted it this follows a series of sporadic gun battles outside the building our middle east correspondent paula slayer has more. while a gun battle was raging in south tripoli between two wible libyan militias around the libyan security courses building and from the information we have at least five people have been injured and part of that building has been destroyed now we are receiving reports that the whole area has been cordoned off that many residents in the area have rushed home and if they're kicking themselves in front inside of their homes and also arming themselves why when can you see that security building is force and makes to the tripoli central hospital and some of the but it's from his gun battle has the hospital or was also on a sunday morning today was a call bomb explosion in front of the police station in the second largest city in libya of being ghazi now at least three police officers were wounded in that car explosion we're not hearing any reports as of people who ha

want to thank them for their efforts, and in particular i want to acknowledge the work of captain mosher and the officers in mission station and i also want to take this opportunity to thank our violence prevention workers who have been working day and night as well helping the police to keep the violence down in the mission. we will continue to monitor the situation. and again, i want to thank all of the agencies and community members that have been working hard to keep the community safe. i rest i submit. >> thank you: ,supervisor campos. supervisor avalos. >> thank you, madam clerk. just about three items for introduction, a few comments as well. * first off, on friday i had the real great opportunity to see some of the work that's been done by librarians at the oceanview branch library. they have been looking at how they can provide better service for the neighborhood and the librarian actually -- head librarian leaf braid en, went out and did a month-long survey with the community. actually started last year, and really amazing what she was able to encounter in terms of the history

howard frank mosher comes to mind who is in may ways a quintessential vermont novelist. he has maple syrup in his veins and is just a terrific writer, and he lives here. katherine patterson, on our board of trustees and is national ambassador of chirp's literature and best known for her work, a young adult novel, and i think there is a real core anchor. it's one of those odd literary cultures in places where people gather that -- in the northeast part of the country. have to go to brooklyn, new york, to get as close. i think part of it is people draw inspiration from the landscape around us. particularly for writers, unlike a lot of places where, we're a front porch culture, not a backyard culture. so you rely on your neighbors, learn how to work together, depend on each other, and from that comes the heart of what makes good stories, because you know people. so you know what happens in their lives. and there are not many communities in america like that anymore, sadly, i think. that those have the scale, and the kind of big sense of community and that we're all in this

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howard frank mosher is a wonderful novelist in many ways. i think that there is a real court anger. it is one of those literary cultures where people in the northeast part of the country, you probably have to go to brooklyn, new york, to get as close to this culture. people draw inspiration from the magnificent landscape that we have around us. particularly for writers, unlike a lot of places we are a web of small towns and a network of small towns. you rely on your neighbors and you learn how to work together to depend on each other. from that comes the heart of what makes this story. there are not many communities in america like that anymore, sadly. in the big sense of community that we are all in this together. we are an independent college, i have a central daughter. this college is the hub of their lives. we grow readers from the time that they are little kids. we have all of the cultural things that you can have in a big city in a the town they really only have 8000 people. that is extraordinary. very unique. people matter, stories matter. institutions matter. i mean, the onl

massive superhighways to go through and destroy neighborhoods in my we need to have builders like bob mosherborhoods and doing so in the name of progress. but i don't know that that wouldn't be solved in other ways or more county and state roads, again, you can find a lot more people with a lot more expertise about toll roads and make these arguments more persuasively than i can. it is an interesting infrastructure case. i just want to get that out there. i will say that the public transportation in washington dc is an absolute disgrace. los angeles has a fairly decent transportation system. if you're willing to take the bus, which of course some people are willing to never take the bus. these buses that run along, some of them are licensed, i presume a lot of them are not. you know, right here in washington dc, we have this endless battle going on about the taxicab medallion system. which is just straight up public competition. transportation is a need to be maxed out. >> i have never heard anyone say that the dc transportation was worse than los angeles transportation. [laughter] sumac oh,