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Please Don’t Help Me Pay for My Next Vacation
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My wife and I spent a lovely week in Paris back in July and, I regret to admit, you may have helped pay for it.
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Enough is Enough on Cate Street in Portsmouth
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In fact, as the state’s ratepayer advocate I find it downright refreshing that our state’s chief executive is willing to state forthrightly that it is time to stop infinitely funding public policy initiatives, even virtuous ones, via the electric bills paid by Granite Staters.
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Electricity: Sometimes Too Cheap NOT to Meter!
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Lewis Strauss famously proclaimed, in a 1954 speech, that — thanks to nuclear power — electricity would become “too cheap to meter.”
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New Transmission Line to Quebec? I Vote Yes.
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People tend to assume that I was an opponent of Northern Pass, Eversource’s ill-fated transmission project that died an ignominious death nearly four years ago. But it ain’t necessarily so.
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A Charged Election at the NH Electric Co-op
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Electricity is really important – it’s an essential commodity these days, and it has grown notably expensive over the past couple of years. Ergo, the annual election at the Electric Co-op is important.
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Ratepayers, Eat Your Herring!
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It is not because of my fondness for my late grandmother’s chopped herring, though Marcel Proust would surely appreciate how vividly the memory lingers of that particular sweet and sour delight.
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The Ghost of Ayn Rand as a Climate Activist?
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Remember the time a famous architect secretly designed a public housing project, and then blew the place up because the complex was not built to his specifications?
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Defund the Police, A Little, To Help Ratepayers
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All of these activities require flaggers who can direct traffic so the utility workers can do their pruning and digging. The objective is to keep the utility workers, and those passing by, as safe as possible.
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Blameworthy Characters: Three Well-Paid Electricity Titans Worth Watching
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As New Hampshire emerges from a long winter of ratepayer discontent, the hunt for blameworthy characters continues. Here are some nominations.