My latest article in The Baltimore Times Newspaper

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!:
Rate Hikes Make Things Ripe for True Reform
by Min. Heber Brown, III
Baltimore Times
Originally posted 6/30/2006

For the past few months, the general public has been held captive by political pandering over the inevitable BGE rate hikes. We’ve heard countless proposals on what the public will ultimately have to pay for the increased cost of energy.

In what looked like a concluding chapter on this issue, the General Assembly recently convened in Annapolis for a special session to produce a plan that would appease an outraged public. After overriding Governor Ehrlich’s veto, the Democrat-led, General Assembly produced the following result: 15% increase for the next 11 months with an approximate $2.19 monthly fee to be paid to BGE for a decade.

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