Is going up and gas natural gas is going up every single year at a at a rate that s much faster than wages are going up and if you re on a fixed income it s even worse you know and so our rates are unnecessarily high because our utilities commission is dedicated to maintaining and increasing the profitability of the utilities at the expense of everyone else if you re just joining us I m Douglas Holbrook and this is Michael Gurian the end on perspectives we very often sort of look at things from a different perspective sometimes we sort of pull the frame back or pull the camera back like Rudd Serling used to do on Twilight Zone and see a larger picture of what s going on you know I m coming remembering was was there a song killing me slowly it sounds to me like the concept of our rates which they seem to be a small part of our overall budget are killing us slowly but you know it s true and it sounds like almost. It s a loser I mean you talk about the fiduciary obligation and it sounds
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Tennessee based 1st Horizon and the Louisiana based Iberia Bank are combining in a deal worth nearly $4000000000.00 regional banking companies have announce what they re calling a merger of equals the combined company will have its headquarters in Memphis Tennessee and a regional banking center in New Orleans the new company will have $75000000000.00 in assets and market capitalization of $9000000000.00 after the deal closes next year correspondent Jeremy House reporting 1st Horizon has more than 5500 employees and operates mostly in Tennessee and the Carolinas I Bierria banks based in Lafayette and has more than 3100 employees with operations mostly in Gulf Coast states from Texas to South Florida Chinese President Xi Jinping in meeting political leaders in Greece on a trip aimed at furthering a major global investment initiative outside the European Union or a Town Hall dot com. You ll analyst Trilby Lundberg says gas prices are holding steady Aircel average price of regular grade g
Suggested be called the service we ll talk about that with net for Freeman of the Institute for Policy Studies That s coming up and we ll get right to it you re listening to counter spin brought to you each week by the media watch group fair. As media critics in election season are preeminent concern is less how fair the press are to this or that candidate but how fair they are to the public that means substantive reporting not just on candidates their records on proposals but on the voting process itself and specifically the distance between the system we have and the democracy we return Rickly invoke and that some of us actually seek if corporate media typically underserved such process questions the public increasingly sees their urgency resulting in things like this week s overwhelming passage here in New York City of a ballot initiative that will change the way we vote here to tell us about it and how it can matter is Rob Richie co-founder and president of the group Fair Vote He
Founder and president of the group Fair Vote He joins us by phone from Tacoma Park Maryland welcome back to counter span Rob Richie thank you didn t well we spoke with you in that weird sad hit on the head moment in the immediate wake of the 2016 presidential election when we were just trying to see a way forward you talked then about ranked choice voting which had just passed in Maine as a meaningful reform of an electoral system that lets us down I wonder if you could explain a little what you mean about the ways in which the current voting system lets us down yet have a current system creates incentives and outcomes that really limit what we as voters experience both with the candidates who ultimately are seen as credible or even offer themselves at all and what we can do as voters and again our support for them and when you have a single choicest m which people might think like 0 $1.00 person one vote that has to be single choice and that s not when one person one vote mean it mea