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Article: The Baltimore Sun Paul Moore column: On BGE rates, the big picture and the small.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
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- June 25, 2006
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Byline: Paul Moore
Jun. 25--The Sun has given prominent coverage to the most dramatic aspects of the BGE rate increase story: legislation passed by a special session of the General Assembly that caps the initial increase at 15 percent instead of 72 percent, fires all current members of the Public Service Commission, which oversees utility regulation, and restructures the commission.
The newspaper also has paid close attention to a public hearing on the bill that was chaired and tightly controlled by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., and to the governor's subsequent veto of the legislation. The Assembly was expected to override that veto.
Even though ...