Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon will soon, possibly as early as today, make one of his most important appointments since taking office in January: He will try, for the second time, to fill the fifth seat on the Missouri Public Service Commission.

The…

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…

Missouri Public Service Commissioner Jeff Davis is a walking conflict of interest. Since 2005, he’s been involved in four incidents that raise questions about his objectivity and that of the utility regulatory body on which he serves.
In a tearful 2007 interview…

There was a time when Missouri consumers didn’t regularly get hosed by their state Legislature, when “consumer advocate” wasn’t a term of scorn (like “community organizer”), when ordinary people banded together and effectively pressed…

A corporation is a legal “person,” just like you. Maybe even better. Exhibit A is a bill passed last week by the Missouri House of Representatives:

• It allows utility companies to avoid complying with local zoning laws or with past court…