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September 25, 2011: Can I Get a Witness
The state legislature is holding hearings on Connecticut Light & Power's response to Hurricane Irene. Right now they're talking to municipal leaders, but on Monday, citizens will get their shot.
For the first time in history, the state will allow...Tags: Wethersfield, Facebook, Nikola Tesla, Hurricane Irene (2011), Mass Media
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11/4/2011-Where Do They Find These Executives?
Several years ago, I made Homer Simpson the head of Northeast Utilities over a different fiasco. Well, Homer's back, but this may be the last time I can use that metaphor for the world's most incompetent power plant manager. Word's out that this season...Tags: Entertainment, Homer Simpson (fictional character), Television, The Simpsons (tv program)
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Towns Seething On 7th Night Without Power; CL&P Pledges 99 Percent Restoration By Sunday Night; Some Town Officials Simply Don't Believe It
As mayors and first selectmen were seething Friday on the seventh night without power for many homeowners in their towns, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy ordered an independent review of the response by state electric companies to a freak pre-Halloween storm that...Tags: Barack Obama, Avon (Hartford, Connecticut), Simsbury, Starbucks Corp., Companies and Corporations
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CL&P's Profit Jump, Staffing Levels Will Draw Scrutiny
The Hartford CourantThe ranks of line crews at Connecticut Light & Power Co. are so thin that it's not unusual for workers to be on call eight out of 13 weekends, especially during the summer vacation season, a longtime line worker said. "It puts a lot of pressure on your...Tags: Waterbury, Companies and Corporations, Massachusetts Electric Company, Unions, Corporate Officers
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Snowstorm Upsets Campaign Calculus
The Hartford CourantPolitics-as-usual ended Oct. 29 when the snow started falling. The unusual October snowstorm and the widespread power failures it caused ruined the traditional get-out-the-vote push in the last week before Election Day. There wouldn't be any knocking on...Tags: Elections, Waterbury, Simsbury, Wethersfield, Customs and Tradition
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CL&P Union Leaders: Staffing Too Low, Executive Pay Too High
The Hartford CourantLeaders at two unions representing line workers at Connecticut Light & Power Co. attacked the company as frustration over the pace of power restoration grew Wednesday, arguing that staffing levels are too low to allow quick response to a crisis of the...Tags: Lotto, Waterbury, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Shareholders, Companies and Corporations
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How Could CL&P Not Know What We Were In For?
The Hartford CourantThe first priority is to get the electricity back on and to make sure all citizens, particularly elderly residents living alone, are safe. But it's also time to ask what Connecticut Light & Power was doing in the days and hours before the storm when a...Tags: Snow Storms, Windsor Locks, Simsbury, Politics, Dannel P. Malloy
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CL&P Says Plenty Of Power Restored; Butler Says 97 Percent With Power After Storm Worse Than Irene
After getting blasted repeatedly by mayors, first selectmen, and his own customers for the past week, embattled utility president Jeffrey Butler spent time Monday night giving perspective on the intensity of the pre-Halloween storm and the difficulty to...Tags: Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Simsbury, Tropical Storms, Tolland (Tolland, Connecticut), Connecticut Light and Power
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Malloy Talks Tougher About CL&P, Mentions Possible 'Malfeasance'
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, in a State Capitol press conference, used tough words against CL&P Monday – mentioning the possibility of “malfeasance” by the company, for example – and said his administration would be sure “that...Tags: Standards, Simsbury, Local Government, Tolland (Tolland, Connecticut), Companies and Corporations
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Malloy requests that banks play nice. That's wrong. He should tell them.
Lost in the righteous anger toward Connecticut Light & Power last week was Gov. Dan Malloy's soft request of banks across the state to do the right thing. Listen, he essentially said, people are out of power and have been handicapped for days. A lot of...Tags: Management Change, Shareholders, Companies and Corporations, Politics, Financial and Business Services
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11/13/2011-Heroes
We the peeps of Connecticut have been angry at Northeast Utilities and CL&P, justifiably so, in my opinion. But there is one group of people we are not angry with, in fact, we are grateful to.
They came from 23 states and Canada. They worked...
Sep 23, 2011
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Nov 3, 2011
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Nov 4, 2011
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Nov 6, 2011
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Nov 5, 2011
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Nov 4, 2011
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Nov 2, 2011
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Nov 2, 2011
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Nov 7, 2011
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Nov 7, 2011
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Nov 10, 2011
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Nov 11, 2011
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