Brodsky Talks About Con Ed Rate Increase
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Today’s “High Noon” radio guest will be Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, D-Greenburgh, who will give his views on Con Edison’s record-high rate increase.
The electiric utility is aming to “zap” customers with $1.2 billion in total increases, starting in April, 2008. The Public Service Commission, which regulates state utilitiies, is recommending a rate hike at about half that amount—still an incredibly high boost.
Hearings will take place next month, but a final PSC decision is not expected until March.
Brodsky, who chairs a committee that oversees the PSC and other bodies, has been an outspoken critic of Con Ed…and has said that the system is “rigged.”
Listen to our conversation today at 12 noon. That’s “High Noon” on WVOX, 1460 AM. The show also stream live at www.wvox.com.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
While reading today’s column, it struck me that Mr. Cappelli was required to build a certain amount of affordable housing as part of his deal with White Plains. Have any families of moderate income occupied these dwellings, have any even been built. It might make sense to tell these developers that they will not be issued certificates of occupancy for their buildings, until their moderate income dwellings are ready for occupancy. It wouldn’t hurt to give them a little incentive to fulfill their responsibilities.
What a silly idea! That would be like expecting Entergy
to pass some examinations to prove their competent enough to
operate Indian Point or like placing an escape clause in their 20 year license extension.