Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Scott shafer is off today. Were focusing on high profile local ballot measures and state propositions. In november, voters in some bay area cities will decide whether to tax cigarettes and raise the minimum wage. Proposition 45 could determine how Health Insurance rates are set, property fix would raise the ceiling on damages on medical malpractice suits. Joining me to break it down are Andrew Stelzer, kqed news reporter, lisa aliferis, kqed blog editor. And april dembosky, kqed health reporter. Lets start with prop 45. What would that do . It would give the state insurance commissioner the ability to reject excessive increases for Health Insurance. Right now, the commissioner doesnt have the ability to do that. He mainly regulates property insurance, home insurance, auto insurance. And so this proposition would give him the power to help insurers want to raise rates to a point he thinks will be too much for consumers, he wants to
Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Scott shafer is off today. Were focusing on high profile local ballot measures and state propositions. In november, voters in some bay area cities will decide whether to tax cigarettes and raise the minimum wage. Proposition 45 could determine how Health Insurance rates are set, property fix would raise the ceiling on damages on medical malpractice suits. Joining me to break it down are Andrew Stelzer, kqed news reporter, lisa aliferis, kqed blog editor. And april dembosky, kqed health reporter. Lets start with prop 45. What would that do . It would give the state insurance commissioner the ability to reject excessive increases for Health Insurance. Right now, the commissioner doesnt have the ability to do that. He mainly regulates property insurance, home insurance, auto insurance. And so this proposition would give him the power to help insurers want to raise rates to a point he thinks will be too much for consumers, he wants to
Done to combat Islamic State militants marching toward turkey. Ifill a new book explores what makes a great commander in chief and why americans might not want another abe lincoln. We want to turn the president into a combination of Harrison Ford and air force one and superman. And the realty is we dont have a president like that anymore. Woodruff plus, chinas most famous artist, aei weiwei, barred from leaving the country, explores what it means to be free with an exhibition inside americas most notorious prison alcatraz. We basically cannot touch the walls. We cannot touch anything. We cannot add anything. The hanging installation, the prisoners themselves, it was only there for a period of time. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a mor
Militants marching toward turkey. Ifill a new book explores what makes a great commander in chief and why americans might not want another abe lincoln. We want to turn the president into a combination of Harrison Ford and air force one and superman. And the realty is we dont have a president like that anymore. Woodruff plus, chinas most famous artist, aei weiwei, barred from leaving the country, explores what it means to be free with an exhibition inside americas most notorious prison alcatraz. We basically cannot touch the walls. We cannot touch anything. We cannot add anything. The hanging installation, the prisoners themselves, it was only there for a period of time. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful
Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Scott shafer is off today. Were focusing on high profile local ballot measures and state propositions. In november, voters in some bay area cities will decide whether to tax cigarettes and raise the minimum wage. Proposition 45 could determine how Health Insurance rates are set, property fix would raise the ceiling on damages on medical malpractice suits. Joining me to break it down are Andrew Stelzer, kqed news reporter, lisa aliferis, kqed blog editor. And april dembosky, kqed health reporter. Lets start with prop 45. What would that do . It would give the state insurance commissioner the ability to reject excessive increases for Health Insurance. Right now, the commissioner doesnt have the ability to do that. He mainly regulates property insurance, home insurance, auto insurance. And so this proposition would give him the power to help insurers want to raise rates to a point he thinks will be too much for consumers, he wants to