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today’s news … Friday, October 7

In Uncategorized on October 7, 2011 at 6:00 am

today’s news and information gleanings from here and there! 

Today’s Weather!   Today in History! Rts. 30 & 441 Traffic Cam! The Official Time!

Quote for today… “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Ghandi  

  • Two letters to the editors rail against elected public servants’ greed, coziness and excess; is “Occupy Lancaster County” next? (SOURCE: Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • POLICE LOG: COLUMBIA: Michael James Leschke III, 19, of Columbia, was cited with disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and purchase, consumption, possession or transportation of liquor in the 200 block of Walnut Street Sept. 27. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • During last month’s flooding, a York Daily Record article carried a photo of a man leaving his flooded home. Now here’s an article that affirms that “beer helps make things turn out all right.” - York Daily Record

This photograph of Mike Ingalls walking to his Hellam Township home on Sept. 9 during Tropical Storm Lee attracted the attention of MillerCoors, who plans to donate money to two organizations in Ingalls name. (DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS — JASON PLOTKIN)

“Electric Bills About To Spike”: Daily Beast

In Everyday Living on October 7, 2011 at 4:50 am

Utilities want more money for grid updates and pollution controls., Gene P. Puskar / AP Photo

Utilities across the country need more money for grid updates and pollution controls, and are passing the huge bill on to consumers. Laura Colarusso on why electricity bills are rising.

Already weary of high gas prices and 9.1 percent unemployment, many Americans are about to get another kick in the wallet thanks to large increases in their electricity bills.

From Alaska to Georgia and Wyoming to Florida, utilities are seeking permission to pass on hundreds of millions of dollars in new charges to customers to help upgrade aging infrastructure and build new or retrofitted power plants that comply with tougher environmental regulations, a Daily Beast review of regulatory filings has found.

The influx of requests, many still pending before state regulators, has left energy experts convinced that electricity prices will be on the rise for the foreseeable future as the industry struggles to modernize its aging infrastructure.

“They desperately need to upgrade,” says Bill Richardson, the former New Mexico governor and Clinton-era energy secretary who once famously called America a superpower with a Third World power grid. “You’re seeing rate hikes everywhere because this is a widespread, national problem.”

The pending rate hikes are bad news for poor Read the rest of this entry »

“Learn Not To Burn” during Fire Prevention Week

In Everyday Living, In Columbia, Opportunities on October 7, 2011 at 4:41 am

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