CLASSROOM TV CHANNEL AIRS DAVIS TALK.Byline: Harrison Harrison, town (1990 pop. 13,425), Hudson co., NE N.J., an industrial suburb on the Passaic River opposite Newark; inc. 1869. The town has several foundries. Its manufactures include plastics, paperboard, and metal products. Sheppard Sheppard can refer to:
Gov. Gray Davis' ``town hall'' meeting Wednesday night in Hollywood was taped and edited for students to see Thursday in school by Channel One, the educational network that beams its programs to millions of students in classrooms around the country. The network hopes to hold similar events with some of the major candidates in coming weeks, though it has no firm commitments yet. ``We are going to approach the other candidates about a similar sort of opportunity,'' said Morgan Morgan, American family of financiers and philanthropists. Junius Spencer Morgan, 1813–90, b. West Springfield, Mass., prospered at investment banking. Wandell, executive vice president of Channel One. ``We're still figuring it out. This one just fell in our laps at the last minute.'' The program was put together in about 24 hours, he said. The in-studio guests were not screened for their position on the recall, and they included teens invited by Channel One and adults invited by the National Council of Jewish Women The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) is an American Jewish volunteer organization founded in 1893, with 90,000 members, supporters and volunteers. Inspired by Jewish values, NCJW works to improve the quality of life for women, children, and families, and to ensure individual and Women's Town Hall, which also helped organize the program. Channel One beams its programming by satellite to some 8 million students in classrooms across the country - though naturally fewer in the summer. To balance the potentially one-sided view students would get from watching the program, the network was planning to put together a news broadcast today showing both sides of the issue, Wandell said. The network does not have any contracts with state government. Its programming is provided by direct contract with school districts throughout the country and its revenue comes from advertising shown during breaks in programming. Davis plans to hold other town-hall events organized by other groups throughout the state in coming weeks. Gabriel Sanchez, a spokesman for the governor's anti-recall effort, said the audiences will not be stacked Stacked is an American television sitcom that premiered on Fox on April 13, 2005. On May 18, 2006, Stacked was cancelled, leaving five episodes unaired in the United States. The last episode aired on January 11, 2006. with Davis supporters. Instead, they will be chosen by the group organizing each particular forum, with only a few criteria from the governor to prevent representatives of other campaigns from attending. ``It's going to be folks that are chosen without regard to their partisan Partisan may refer to: Political matters In politics, partisan literally means organized into political parties. The expression "Partisan politics" usually refers to fervent, sometimes militant support of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. affiliation or their position on the recall,'' Sanchez said. ``No party operatives, no campaign chairmen will be allowed in and no gubernatorial gu·ber·na·to·ri·al adj. Of or relating to a governor. [From Latin gubern candidates. That's pretty much the only (restrictions).'' Harrison Sheppard, (213) 978-0390 harrison.sheppard(at)dailynews.com |
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