The Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council’s extended gas supply deal with Dominion Retail is looking a little more pointless with each passing month.
Yesterday the New York Mercantile Exchange’s month-end settlement price for gas to be delivered in December was $8.32 per thousand cubic feet (mcf). That price plus $1.44 is the Standard Service Offer Rate [...]
If you’re interested in the possibility of bottom-up energy solutions for Cleveland consumers, you should know about a City Council hearing the day after tomorrow. From Cleveland City Council’s legislative calendar:
Interconnection and net metering are about how small decentralized power sources — photovoltaics, wind turbines, cogenerators, etc. — can become part of the citywide grid. [...]
The Franklin County Board of Elections just announced its “final results” in the Congressional race between Republican Deborah Pryce and Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy. With provisional and absentee ballots counted, Pryce leads Kilroy by 1,054 votes — less than a third of the unofficial margin reported two weeks ago.
A recount may be apparently is automatic. [...]
In the first few months of his administration, Governor Strickland will have a vacancy to fill on the five-member Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Commissioner Judy Jones of Toledo will complete her current term in April. It’s absolutely certain that Strickland will replace her. At least one blogospheric trial balloon has already gone up from [...]
Back at the labor council, back in the blogosphere.
I’ve been resisting this, but the sixty-three machine-generated, mostly filthy spam comments I had to delete this morning pushed me over the line. From now on, you gotta be registered to comment at Cleveland Diary.
If you’re a real person who might want to comment here once in a while, I’d love it if you’d register [...]
I just got a copy of the executive summary of MJB Consulting’s study of the probable impact of Steelyard Commons on nearby neighborhood business districts. This is the document presented yesterday to City Council, as reported by the PD’s Olivera Perkins this morning.
Here’s Perkins’ lead:
Steelyard Commons, the city’s first shopping megacenter, may not deliver [...]
John Ryan posts a lengthy account of how Sherrod Brown won at Huffington Post.
(Thanks, Sammy.)
In a comment on this post last week, County Treasurer Jim Rokakis made a prediction about the county’s foreclosure situation. Here it is for the record, with a little reformatting and a few links added:
The disastrously high rate of foreclosures will slow down in 2007 for a variety of reasons including
1) SB 185 which [...]
… what Strickland promised to do as governor if elected, it’s all re-posted, issue by issue, on his new transition website.
The main business of a governor’s transition is finding and hiring new people for the thin crust of non-civil service (i.e. management and policy) jobs at the top of various agencies and offices. Telling all [...]