As well as working journalist who is are club members. To hear applause in our audience i note to members of the general public are attending so not necessarily evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. I would also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter, using hashtag, npclunch. After our guests speech concludes well have a question and answer period. I will ask as many as time permits. Now it is time to introduce our head table guests. I would like each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your applause until i complete announcing everybody at the head table. From your right, gil klein, journalism professor, american universitys Washington Semester Program a past npc president and chair of the clubs history and heritage committee. Janice law, former print journalist and criminal court judge and founder of the american women writers national museum. Ambassador sell la, roosevelt, the United States chie
Ea about the past of the news. The troubles for this country faced. I will add one more thing. Those troubles have their seeds in georgia. Atlanta, georgia. Im a structural engineer. Iname to the United States 1969. 45 years. I got my masters degree in 1971. With one mission in life, degrees are not important. Money is not important. Positions, not important. Citizenship, i am right now citizen of two countries. The United States and iraq. Neverne in citizenship, subordinate your country to a pocket book. Once you do that you violate rule one. Here,hen i came to speak me im nottold supposed to carry those documents in my hands. Im going to give those documents to those gentlemen. They will see the horrible things going on. Respectful. Be very could you this is a q a session. Would you put the question to our panel . Id be glad to. If somebody told you that some of the major media in this nation kept the American People in the dark about major events, and this question is addressed to a
October 17th, good to see you guys. You look like a big Sidney Crosby fans or something. You do. Penguins. Penguins. Okay. Hi, sue. They are black an gold, though. Inside joke. Yes. Mike jerrick says wear black and by the. Hey, we did. Anything he said, we always do. I missed the memo. I didnt have any white, i have just black, that will have to suffice this morning. Go flyers. Were lucky we are clothed the at this point. Anyway, there is all rain from the day before yesterday, the night before, or from yesterday at this time when we were seeing some rain. We will see wrap around moisture. I think that will be confined to the western part of the state, a a little drop, showing up in dover, that is probably not making it to the ground. That is radar picture. Now lets talk temperatures. The a as we get started ths morning we are cooler then we were, not dramatically so but in the 50s, we have 60 degrees in philadelphia, 55 in wildwood. Fiftynine in wilmington. The these temperatures are,
Budget and finance Committee Meeting good morning. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and Financial Committee for november 6, 2013, im mark farrel and im be doing this meeting and i want to thank Supervisor Scott Wiener for joining us and supervisor mar and avalos will join us in a while. I want to thank victor young and the sfgtv covering this. Mr. Clerk do we have announcements. Yes. Be silent. And phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Itemed acted upon today will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. So we have one relatively longer hearing and we have a number of items before that, so well get going with the hearing and the resolution that i sponsors. Clerk, call item number one and 1. Item number 1 hearing to focus on the overall trends in hospital pricing, the rationale from the hospitals for the setting of these prices, how hospital prices are affecting our governmental accounting standards board
Acted upon today will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. So we have one relatively longer hearing and we have a number of items before that, so well get going with the hearing and the resolution that i sponsors. Clerk, call item number one and 1. Item number 1 hearing to focus on the overall trends in hospital pricing, the rationale from the hospitals for the setting of these prices, how hospital prices are affecting our governmental accounting standards board unfunded healthcare liability, overall healthcare costs, and how the pricing seems to disproportionately affect the uninsured and underinsured. Item number 1 hearing to focus on the overall trends in hospital pricing, the rationale from the hospitals for the setting of these prices, how hospital prices are affecting our governmental accounting standards board unfunded healthcare liability, overall healthcare costs, and how the pricing seems to disproportionately affect the uninsured and underinsured. Item number 2 re