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Many consumers faced with rising cable rates and high prices for new digital TVs in tough economic times opt for Digital TV converter boxes.
AT&T's new Customer Service Agreement is not only flawed and unfair, but it is almost three feet long when printed. Are the new terms in effect? Not yet. Full Story.
After a grassroots campaign spearheaded by keep760.org and assisted by UCAN, the CPUC voted 5-0 in favor of keeping the 760 area code and overlaying new area code 442, reversing its earlier ruling that would have split the area code in two. A split would have forced all North (San Diego) County residents and businesses to adopt area code 442.
Instead, the current 760 area code stays put, while new numbers may be assigned to either area code.
The CPUC determined that regulatory violations involving SDGE's power lines caused the most destructive of last year's devastating San Diego County fires. The Witch Creek fire combined with the Guejito fire and killed two people, burned almost 200,000 acres and destroyed 1,141 homes. The Rice Canyon fire burned almost 9,500 acres and destroyed more than 200 houses.
Rather than address the real problems that caused the 2007 wildfires, SDG&E has asked the CPUC to approve, through an informal process, blanket authority to cut off power to backcountry ratepayers when SDG&E determines dangerous dry and windy conditions exist.
Affected schools, water districts and other ratepayers sternly objected at the CPUC's October 14 hearing inviting public comment on the 2007 San Diego fires.
Michael Shames, UCAN's Executive Director, opposes immediate implementation of SDGE's controversial plan because the "proposal raises some very complex and important policy issues" better suited to formal review by the CPUC.
Read more, including UCAN's protest letter to the CPUC
UCAN member Frank enlisted UCAN's help to finally get a $3800 refund from Praudigy Hearing Clinics that he had been promised repeatedly over several months.
As part of the bailout, Congress extended solar tax credits, set to expire this year, through 2016.
The financial industry has its bailout. Now the states, led by California and Massachusetts, want low interest loans from the Federal government? Who's next?
Big business really wants to shove the $700 billion bailout down America's throat. AT&T and others want to scare us into supporting the bailout.
Today's successful business model exemplified by Detroit. Make SUVs and trucks nobody wants to buy, post record losses, get government bailout.
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