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I WAS having a pretty good, as in fun, day today UNTIL I picked up the local newspaper at lunch time..
The headline that soured my mood a bit was..
Empire asks state regulators for [another] rate increase
Have you ever tried to find a specific story out of the paper on-line? It often proves to be a very difficult, if not impossible, task.. It seems the SAME so-called news story is chopped up and edited and presented in many different forms in many different places.. For many different audiences???
Empire District Electric Company filed for another rate increase on Tuesday, 09/28/2010. The utilities last rate hike went into effect earlier THIS month!
I can't find this article on the on-line version of the paper or with a google search.. I CAN find bits and pieces of it with select pieces mysteriously 'missing'..
I run into this pretty often and it seems very strange to me.. Like even our NEWS is being heavily manipulated..
Here's a part of the original article that I can't seem to find on the net in heavily edited versions of the article..
"When they want more money, they come to us," Filson said. "We residents don't have anyone to go to. In other words, we are the bottom line."
Filson said his income hasn't budged. He receives a fixed pension, and his Social Security hasn't risen because, he said with a laugh, government officials say there has been no inflation.
"I have done all I can do," he said. We can't keep up with them. What the heck are we supposed to do?"
Click the link above to see one of the many chopped up versions of this story that exist on the net.. Mysteriously missing in all of them seems to be the concerns of the citizens who are affected by these relentless utility price increases..
Bastards..
Greg
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