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Police Sorry They Brought Frivolous Lawsuits, Suing Their Lawyer
Let us hope that experience brings wisdom.— December 18, 2010 4:59 p.m.
CPUC: SDG&E Z-Factor Wildfire Insurance Problem Solved At $29 Million
Ausgezeichnet! The more, the merrier...— December 18, 2010 4:34 p.m.
CPUC: SDG&E Z-Factor Wildfire Insurance Problem Solved At $29 Million
make that "arguments AGAINST that interpretation"...— December 18, 2010 3:39 p.m.
CPUC: SDG&E Z-Factor Wildfire Insurance Problem Solved At $29 Million
This certainly goes to the heart of my earlier opposition to Proposition 16 as a constitutional amendment raising investor owned utilities to a position superior to that of charter and general law municipalities. At the same time, it is incumbent on us ordinary citizens to subscribe to CPUC filings and become informed of utilities' applications and their supporting testimony via email, as well informed of all protests filed against them. Currently, out of a population of roughly 30 million Californians, less than 2000 of us are subscribed and know what business there is before the Commission. I am betting that I am one of the small handful who is not employed by a utility and who is not already a CPUC-experienced intervening protester. http://subscribecpuc.cpuc.ca.gov/— December 18, 2010 3:37 p.m.
CPUC: SDG&E Z-Factor Wildfire Insurance Problem Solved At $29 Million
I would think that arguing post commission hiring by the power industry would qualify as applying to the entire class of power utilities over which CPUC has jurisdiction, but I am more certain that the utilities would throw up all kinds of arguments that interpretation. It would be interesting to see how many commissioners have been hired by, say, Greyhound or Yellow Cab since the Railroad Commission became CPUC.— December 18, 2010 3:12 p.m.
Escondido Bomb Scare
Having done enough Section 60 burials in Arlington National Cemetery to affect my mental health for the last three decades, I pray for peace as well.— December 18, 2010 12:15 p.m.
CPUC: SDG&E Z-Factor Wildfire Insurance Problem Solved At $29 Million
It may be possible to initiate a CPUC rulemaking proceeding by writing a request for such a policy, where after a time CPUC must start the proceeding, come up with a better policy on its own, or provide reasons why it denies the request. To respond more thoroughly, I'll need some time to look at the Public Utilities Code and CPUC's rules of practice this weekend... The most expensive option is a constitutional ballot initiative. PG&E tried that earlier in the 2010 primary and lost Proposition 16 at a cost of roughly $30 million in shareholder equity (which is to say it actually came from PG&E ratepayer billings in and around San Francisco). A winning non-constiutional ballot initiative would cost less to gather fewer signatures to qualify but would be challenged by IOU attorneys until the end of time on public utility constitutional grounds. This may be worth starting a Facebook group page... if one of those could get Betty White to host SNL, who knows what can happen?— December 18, 2010 12:09 p.m.
CPUC: SDG&E Z-Factor Wildfire Insurance Problem Solved At $29 Million
There may not be any application of the Brown Act for legislative bodies to CPUC hearings as long as they are categorized only as "ratesetting", something that happens early in the proceeding process. That's probably less a function of poor Brown Act wording than it is all about CPUC's authority to set its own hearing rules of practice and procedure per Public Utilities Code statutes. On the other hand, a brand new CPUC slate of commissioners complete with a five-year ban on hiring by utilities after being a commissioner would help a lot!— December 18, 2010 10:59 a.m.
Escondido Bomb Scare
I sincerely hope you meant South Korea. Right now, my niece, ex-Army herself and an early childhood car crash/burn survivor, can do nothing but hope her husband comes back with the rest of the 5th Marines from Afghanistan. Any anger that might have caused me to start my own V for Vendetta campaign I simply channel into more research on Sempra, SDG&E, or stupid political tricks in San Diego County, resulting in more Encanto Gas Holder blog posts. Otherwise, as I've said it before, only the love and tolerance of local family members is what keeps me from being homeless. As a presidential escort battalion veteran who did the anti-bomb/ anti-sniper thang back in the 1970s, the thought of Americans bombing Americans is skin-crawling repulsive.— December 18, 2010 8:15 a.m.
Police Sorry They Brought Frivolous Lawsuits, Suing Their Lawyer
5 just might do it in Superior Court... which is why I said "about half way"! They may get all the way there if things break bad next year over scarce municipal resources, like hiz honor earlier threatened before Proposition D went *poof* in a cloud of popular disapproval.— December 17, 2010 9:18 p.m.