Milwaukee “Unclaimed property” is an interesting concept. What is it really? Years ago, I would have thought it was some share of property in a farm somewhere in the country and people were looking for a long-lost relative who was named in the will, and the state was trying to lend a hand. Or, maybe, …
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Reining in Electric Coops, as They Buck and Whine
New Orleans The problem with celebrating our victories is that often we need to do so pretty quickly before the forces of reaction overrun us again. Hopefully, this won’t be the situation in a recent critical breakthrough in the Public Service Commission regulation of rural electric cooperatives in Louisiana, but it’s worth concern. A …
Change Coming to Rural Electric Cooperative Governance – Finally!
New Orleans Cooperatives are something that many of us hold up as models of how things might work in a better – and different – world than the one where we now live and work. Rural electric cooperatives display their democratic and membership principles as part of the cooperative movement since the 1930s on …