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Millersburg update: In court already

Written July 24th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

When Millersburg voters decide whether to authorize their city of 1,500 to borrow $40 million, chances are they’ll face a question more pointed than the one the city council approved on July 14.

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Tags: Judge McHill, Millersburg, Millersburg electric utility, Pacific Power

Albany ups city electric tax, uh, fee

Written July 22nd, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 13 responses.

Pacific Power customers in the city of Albany have been paying 5 percent of their light bills to the city government for years, and they’ll pay 7 percent starting now. The city council Wednesday adopted an ordinance to that effect, brushing aside objections from Councilor Rich Kellum that an “emergency clause” was not justified in […]

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Tags: Albany City Council, electric franchise, electric privilege tax, Pacific Power, Tom Cordier

Albany: This tax is not a tax

Written July 18th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

Albany city officials say the electric tax they’re about to raise is not a tax. But the effect on ratepayers is the same: They have to pay it.

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Tags: Albany City Council, Consumers Power, electric tax, franchise fee, Pacific Power, PUC

Albany electric tax hike delayed

Written July 9th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 11 responses.

The Albany City Council was all set to pass a $930,000 increase in electric taxes Wednesday. Five council members voted to go ahead, but Rich Kellum said no, which meant that the second and final reading of the ordinance containing the boost had to wait for another day.

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Tags: Albany City Council, electric franchise fee, electric tax hike, Pacific Power, Tom Cordier

Not exactly close in Millersburg

Written March 11th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

So much for the notion of forming a municipal electric utility in Millersburg. It looks to me as though Tuesday’s election results make it very unlikely that Millersburg voters would approve, in the foreseeable future, the borrowing that would be necessary to change electric suppliers.

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Tags: debt limit election, Millersburg, Pacific Power

Ballot test due on power takeover

Written February 11th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

About one thousand voters in Millersburg are about to get a say — indirectly, and in a preliminary way — on the idea of their town taking over the electric power system within the city limits.

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Tags: March 10 election, Millersburg power issue, Pacific Power, Wah Chang

Get those trees away from lines!

Written November 13th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

On the first day of winter weather this fall, with icicles on the mailbox and the afternoon temperature a few degrees above freezing, the man on the phone at Pacific Power says we’re one of 130 customers whose electricity is off, and a crew is working on repairs. If his prediction is right, the lights […]

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Tags: Pacific Power, power failures, tree clearing, Winter weather