Arkansas Blog

The PSC granted Entergy a 9.9 percent rate increase...

I suppose, as usual, a large portion of this rate increase will go to offset lower increases in Mississippi and Louisiana.

ARK. BLOG Rate cut in Miss., I think.

It could be worse. You could live in NLR and be looking at a 50-plus percent rate increase (of course, your light bill would still be lower in NLR.)

While it will be somewhat painful for the rate increase in NLR, the key part of this is the parenthetical statement. NLR's rate is STILL LOWER than LR. So the comment that precedes the parentheses is somewhat misleading. It is still actually better to be in NLR.

ARK. BLOG Yes, overall, you're better off. But adjusting a tight budget (isn't eveyrone's?) is easier for a 10 percent than 50 percent increase, no matter where it leaves you afterward.

Tell me again that our real enemies are hiding in the sands of Iraq and Iran....

I trust the North Little Rock Electric Company and my own "city fathers" (or "mothers," as I sometimes think of them) more than I would Entergy and the checkered flag wavers at the PSC. And, thanks, Max, for pointing out that our jacked-up rates will still be lower here in Dogtown than in Rock City. But I don't trust NLREC so much that I'm going to take their word for the amount of my useage each month. Those dials on my meter don't spin around anymore, so NLREC can give me a digital reader like my neighbors have or re-enable the little dials. Our rate hike won't take effect until after the long, hot summer, but it's not too early to begin practicing my New Way Of Life. Step one, solar drying...

Entergy should enjoy the latest approval. It is my guess that Chairman Hochstetter will fight the next rate hike application like a tiger. I am told that she has been removed from the Entergy christmas card list. Keep swinging Madam Chair, we consumers appreciate the fight.

Anybody else feel nostalgic about the good old days of AP&L and Reddy Kilowatt? When your power went off, you could talk to somebody down at Tenth and Center, and they could give you a good idea of when you'd be fixed up-- and if their meter reader let your dog out of the fenced yard, sometimes a VP appeared with that meter reader to help catch Fido.

Hate to date myself, but does anyone remember the AP&L Hospitality House on Fourth (right across from the side entrance to Blass) where a weary shopper could go in and get a comfortable chair and a free cup of coffee?

Everything that's going on now strikes me as just a further example of corporate nose-thumbing.

Not an Entergy customer. Could someone post Entergy's rate of return on investment, and gross operating profit? Is ROI 12% or better?
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How much have energy rates gone up since Huckabee gained control of the PSC? Have they ever denied a rate increase request?

Yeah, how's it been down there since Huck appointed the attorney for AP & L or was it ARLA, to head the PSC. Talk about the fox guarding the hen house.

RE: Health Food Program for Arkansas Schools
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Don't know where to post this.
Why isn't RICE part of school lunches??????
It isn't mentioned on any of the LRSD menus as far back as I can remember.
Don't our schools support state products? Why not?

Shhhh...Huck is in the orient making a deal to import all our rice from there in the future. He gave up on Toyota and came up with this idea instead. Your tax dollar at work!

DBI,
I don't remember rice being a part of MY school lunches and I dated Methusela's kin folks!

I grew up with Missouri parents who looked at rice like it was hard little maggots, Ma fixed it for breakfast with butter, sugar and milk maybe 3 times in my life.

24 years ago I married a Episcopal girl from South Arkansas who came from a family of rice eaters. She had big boobs, so I accepted her strange ways and learned to like rice and quiet dignified sermons. And I'm delighted I did. But I'm with you, if there ever served rice at school, I must have been playing hooky.

I was trying to remember the awful Riceland Rice TV commercial when I was a kid....and it just won't come, had a very un-PC Chinaman (as we said then) in a little hat.

I do remember Something's cooking at the Kelly, something's cooking at the Kelly and it smell so very Irish, smells so good good good....I think that's the way it went. And then there was, Skinner macaroni is the dish for you, tastes better, looks better, cooks better too. Arch Halthem Company, brokers.

All that came out of Little Rock and oh look, the nurse is here with my sleeping pill.......