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03.30.2009 9:00 pm

Protect jobs and consumers, not utility profits

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A Missouri Senate committee is to vote this afternoon on a revised — but still deeply flawed — utility bill that was written to benefit the state’s largest electric company.
AmerenUE has applied for a federal permit to build a new…

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02.09.2009 9:01 pm

Bill stacks the deck against consumers

A state Senate committee is scheduled to begin hearings today on a deeply flawed bill that would remove key consumer protections for utility customers.
The measure, Senate Bill 228, would repeal a 1976 law that prohibits utilities from charging for the…

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01.23.2009 9:00 pm

AmerenUE feigns nuclear indecision

This editorial is just a place holder. We haven’t decided yet whether to write about one of the biggest issues facing Missouri legislators this year.
Our colleague Tony Messenger did. In a column published Tuesday, Mr. Messenger wrote that executives from utility…

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11.13.2008 9:01 pm

Restoring balance to Missouri’s Public Service Commission

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Missouri’s Public Service Commission is supposed to be an honest broker, fairly assessing the often conflicting interests of large utility companies and their customers.
That’s not how things have worked over the last few years. Instead, the playing field has tilted…

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