http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/12/31/the-morning-report Comments On: The morning report: You pay for storm cleanup by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
As several others have noted, here in Arkansas, we are dealing with Entergy's failure to gradually phase out and replace infrastructure (poles and lines) from what? - the 60s and 70s? My hat is grudgingly off to a greedy corporate utility that refuses to start burying the lines, and does not, as is required by PSC regulation, periodically inspect those poles and lines for hazards, which in our state are lots of trees and their branches - nothwithstanding the desire of the logging companies to leave our landscape devoid of forests. How many of you have driven down a road or highway and seen power poles listing dangerously?

And Entergy skates - over and over. They look at the calendar and tell themselves, oh well, there's only a major ice storm every decade or so. And they move on.

A quarter of a million customers in the dark and cold for a week is inexcusable in a state the size of Arkansas.

Where is Ratepayers Fight Back? Please, let's find them, and sign me up.
Posted by Dee Blakley]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:50:11 -0600 Arkansas Times I hope the PSC fines them for the deteriorating infrastructure they could cure with a revamping of municipality deliver grids (yes, Verla, underground like England).
And Saline before you whine, I just paid a contractor to have my service from Entergy's grid placed underground along with cable TV and land-line telephone.
Posted by dottholliday]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:31:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
If it wasn't for Wifi and firewood, we would probably be dead by now.

Happy freaking New Year ....
Posted by Dr. FielGuud]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:10:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
Beyond Greens... If only a few politicians were talking about / insisting upon it many, many would support it. It's a feature of both parties and their corporate media that people yell "keep gov't hands off my medicare!" But the bribed and beholden D vs R's will never allow clarity. Thus with both organizations we the peeps argue over how to remain worst and most expensive in the developed world.

If only we could create a visual of these mass murderers by spreadsheet for CNN (CNN wouldn't show it).... it's like several CT shootings a day (a vietnam memorial of corpse' a year). Premeditated, bipartisan long term plan.

If Jesus were real and alive today he would be chanting - establish health care as a human right, fer god sakes! And Democrats would be at the front of the line wanting to crucify him for it.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:54:33 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://aglaw.blogspot.com/2009/02/ice-stor…

I hope the PSC will scrutinize Entergy's storm damage claims carefully. The number of workers brought in was impressive - in the thousands - but does that tactic really get the power restored faster? Are we paying too much for storm recovery when preventative maintenance would be a better deal?

I found an old Entergy news release about their funding mechanism for storm recovery, called "securitization" -

http://www.entergy.com/news_room/newsrelea…
Posted by radical centrist]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:12:58 -0600 Arkansas Times It is difficult enough to get people to support preventative health care.
In a land where the state motto is “Thank God for Mississippi!”
fore planning is a luxury many choose not to afford.


“If by covetousnesse or negligence, one withdraw from them their ordinary foode,
he shall be penny wise, and pound foolish.”
Edward Topsell
Posted by Zatharus]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:47:44 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:35:39 -0600 Arkansas Times http://thedailyhatch.org/2012/12/29/open-l…
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:31:52 -0600 Arkansas Times
Heck, the power didn't flicker when that same forest had it's annual fires - I imagine fire would be even more disruptive than snow.

I say we bury the lines and end this insane tradition of expecting the power to go off at least twice every winter once and for all. It'll be one of the tales I can tell my grand children. "When I was your age, the ice storms would leave us without power for a week sometimes, and even for two weeks when I lived at your great-grandparent's out in the woods, and we didn't have internet or a cell phone back in the 70's..."
Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:15:05 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by fishlab]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:13:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mam]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:03:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:12:48 -0600 Arkansas Times