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  • Op Ed: NorthWestern Rate Increase Unfair

    Ken Toole, Big Sky 55|Jun 7, 2023

    NorthWestern Energy customers are about to get shocked with a huge increase in their electric rates if the Public Service Commission grants NorthWestern Energy’s request to increase residential rates. The public hearings are over and final legal briefs are being submitted.  But, like a cancer waiting to metastasize, it has not gone away and it will wreak havoc on the very people who can least afford it. Don’t be fooled by efforts to minimize the impact of this rate case.  Residential customers are facing a 28% increase in their utility...

  • Op-Ed: Beware Republican Deregulation

    KEN TOOLE, Big Sky 55|Jan 11, 2023

    If the government would just get out of the way and free the power of the competitive market, we would have a much better economy.” It’s good political rhetoric. The current Republican administration and their pals in the Republican legislature are repeating it over and over as a part of Governor Gianforte’s “Red Tape Reduction Initiative.” The problem is, what Republicans get when they push to eliminate regulations is often not what anybody wants. The last time we heard this kind of rhetoric was during the 1997 legislature and...

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