AltWeeklies Wire
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s Reliability Costs Businesses Millionsnew
A Guardian review of available data shows that customers of PG&E lose power much more frequently than customers of municipally owned and operated utilities.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Megan Rawlins |
08-05-2009 |
Economy
Legislating Energy Affordability in Idahonew
While utilities in surrounding states fund programs to help the poor pay their power bills, in Idaho that is considered discriminatory. One group of advocates for low-income people aims to change that and utility regulators are warming to the idea.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
12-10-2008 |
Economy
After Their Lanlord Disappears, Tenants Get Power Cut Offnew
Steve and Mae, high school sweethearts in the 1970s who married others but reunited 15 years ago, have lived in Colorado Springs more than a decade. Their slide into hell began last November, when their landlord boarded a Greyhound bus and vanished. Since she had been paying the utilities, her tenants now live without power.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Rich Tosches |
04-29-2008 |
Housing & Development
DJ'ing Is Easynew
James Zabiela storms the DJ world with a bag of utilities and an ear for grooves.
Miami New Times |
Mosi Reeves |
07-06-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Illinois Residents Want Seized Land Backnew
City of Springfield officials have revived a controversial project to create a lake, which pushed dozens of families from their land. Environmentalists want the land to be used as a preserve; former landowners want their property returned.
Illinois Times |
Todd Spivak |
05-09-2005 |
Politics
