Louisiana’s largest electric company dodged a regulatory bullet last month, just getting nicked instead. Entergy Louisiana and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana have a combined one million electric customers in Louisiana, including many of the people I represent on the Public Service Commission in north-central and north-east Louisiana. The two companies are operating units of parent […]
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Thursday November, 15 9AM BUSINESS & EXECUTIVE SESSION Galvez Building : Natchez Room : ROOM C-109 For More Details, visit the LPSC website at www.lpsc.org
Reducing the excessive cost of telephone calls between inmates and their families will reduce crime, lower Louisiana’s incarceration burden, and right a moral wrong. On November 15th in Baton Rouge I will ask the Public Service Commission to cut by 25 percent the rate that monopoly telephone providers charge to families to speak to their […]
The Louisiana Public Service Commission is investigating exorbitant telephone rates charged to families of inmates in Louisiana jails and prisons. What we have found suggests that rates for calls from inmates to their families and fees added to bills are extreme compared to rates for calls on the outside. These high charges raise legal and […]
It has become obvious to me that Bobby Jindal sees Louisiana in his rear-view mirror. That’s a real shame. Our state has problems in every direction – crumbling roads and bridges, colleges facing cuts and raising tuition, coastal erosion, threatened LSU teaching hospitals and the worst poverty in the United States. Add to the list […]
Who can forget the summer of 2011? The National Weather Service office in Shreveport says 2011 was one of the warmest years on record for many locations across Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Our region suffered below-normal rainfall during the 2011 spring, followed by record heat and exceptional drought conditions throughout much of the summer […]
It’s sad but true: In politics today compromise has become a dirty word. Yet few issues are so clear that there is no room for compromise. At the Public Service Commission, even the tiniest adjustment in electric, gas or telephone rates can mean millions of dollars to the monopoly utility companies and their captive customers. […]
Preliminary statistics compiled by the Louisiana Public Service Commission on utility customers generating their own electricity provide a glimpse into the steady growth of solar power in our state. The commission staff’s draft numbers on “net-metering” installations show a total of 1,350 Louisiana homes, businesses and institutions with solar, wind or other forms of “distributed” […]
Throughout my political service, in the Louisiana Senate and now on the state Public Service Commission, I have worked hard to remain independent of the special interests that enjoy so much influence in government. It has not been easy. Business interests hold great sway over government officials, in Baton Rouge, Washington, D.C., and in state […]