Equal or less than penguin that is the affordability weve leading with the affordability and cannot you know deliver the program equal or less than penguin we will have the policy come back to you so milestones that are upcoming i want to make sure youre aware of and barbara will talk about that one we talked about last time was that pg e recently put forward their pc i a their power charge and adjustment which is pretty sure the exit fee if you no longer choose to be receiving the power from pg e or go to the cca that actually charge a fee they went to the california puc and they have something that item before the california puc which they would like to increase by 94 percent increase that has we talked about last time the way were offering our product were making sure that our customers total bill is equal then it was if they were in pg e customer which means our jurisdictions has to be low enough to absorb it by increasing the pc i a were actually having to put a lower generation t
Commissioner caen is on her way the approval of the minutes pr the approval of the minutes of the november 10, 2015. So motion to approve the minutes. Second any questions any Public Comment on the minutes all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries next item. Is general Public Comment under any Public Comments on matters that are currently not on the agenda today. Hearing none next item, please. Item 5 communications. You have before you all the communications that have been forwarded which youve had a chance to review any questions or comments on the Communications Commission . Any Public Comment on communications . Hearing next item, please item 6 other Commission Business 6 a authorize the general manager for a new recognize program for excellent 0 performances for the Public Utilities commission we the puc and contractor and consultant and or other audit partners and ms. Ellis. Im julia i was the resolution before you authorizes. A new recognize program to recognize the
[inaudible] i dont know what has been said, but i would like to maybe so has already raised this point. I dont really see, i dont see how the age of twitter, if thats what age we are in, obviates longform journalism. First of all im reminded of one of the great jazz trumpeters luster was asked, what do we know about jazz . He said it depends on what you know. If you want long form listen, its out there in many forms. To the extent it is as much as used the, many things besides twitter are at fault. But there, i think twitter can actually be a facilitator to all forms of journalism. I know, you know, listen, ive also people like Stephen Colbert just because its fun. I follow a lot of people because i know that they will link me to Interesting Articles about ukraine or cyberwarfare or something that im otherwise going to miss. And so i say twitter you know, used in a certain way. And i assume as most of you, see it as a great facilitator, a new kind of curator that was otherwise unavaila
If you are paying more for generic drugs, what is being done to address spiraling cost. Its been a month since the abduction of 43 students in mexico. Whats been done to stem the violence in the country. We begin tonight fading optimism for reaching a Nuclear Program deal with iran before mondays deadline. Secretary of state john kerry and irans foreign minister remained in vienna at least one day trying to work out an agreement. The tentative deal is expiring with iran on monday. Russian, france, United Kingdom and germany, iran had promised to roll back part of its program in exchange for easing of economic sanction he. The deal expires monday. We get more from jonah hull in vienna. The negotiators have spent the day hunkered down in meetings giving little away to media. Technical teams have been hard at work as well, testing different scenarios so see if one may be better than another. John kerry, the u. S. Secretary of state, mohamed java sarif, finished their fourth trilateral mee
That. I can certainly do a better job of explaining how we make decisions. I agree. I think so many people have so much information or distractions, the idea role of the media is not one that interest people. I think we are much more interested in the topic than anyone else. By and large the best thing we can do is do our job and youre asleep and well. I do think there is a humbling that occurred over the past 15 years as the industry has done much less well. So i do share the view that if we can be more transparent, that is helpful and consistent with who we want to be as an organization. Like we wrap up, i would for each of you, the journalist out there, to give a sense of how you tried to inspire the people that work with your theeagues to mind for difficult story and why it is important. Left to right,om please. I would say i have done the last a lot of work at reuters to encourage more excitement about the bigger and more investigative stories. As a news agency you can be tempted