AmerenUE's Callaway nuclear power plant.
AmerenUE is telling lawmakers and ratepayers that financing charges for a new nuclear plant would hike electric rates by 10.5 percent. Or maybe 10.8 percent. Certainly no more than 10.99 percent.
State regulators did the math for themselves. The…
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Missouri’s largest electric utility wants to change state law so that customers could be billed for finance charges while a new nuclear power plant is being built in Callaway County.
No big deal, AmerenUE officials say. The result would be “a…
Missouri Senate Chamber
The walls are made of marble, topped by 16 Ionic columns. The ceiling soars 50 feet above the floor. Everything about the Missouri Senate chamber reeks of dignity and statesmanship — everything except the people who sit in it.
The…
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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…
Horns of a dilemma: Repealing helmet laws could endanger the creative work of men like Arlen Strehlow of Milwaukee, shown at the 2003 Sturgis, S.D., motorcycle rally. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The Missouri Senate last week decided that motorcyclists who are…
