I raised issues of crime to include corporate sleaze in banks and
utilities, and some people wrote back that that had nothing to do with
Minneapolis.
I don't agree.
The utilities, mainly the phone service, isn't going to hell, it
is already there and that affects everyone who uses a phone. I am talking
about Minneapolis.
I don't know how you ever get a phone service but to get one
changed is near to impossible. The phone service is regulated by the
public utilities commission which is regulated by the governor and
legislature.
I know the problem. Shyster companys want to make more money.
(shyse is a Norwegian word which means what a dog leaves when he humps his
back). They buy out other companies, merge offices, fire lots of people to
where one person, with help of recording message system-is answering phones
for three states, that's on people calling with change orders, service
problems, etc.
It is the Public Utilities Commission's job to see that the
utilities operate satisfactorily in serving the public with their government
granted monopoly. Not only is their service no good, but both Quest and the
electric Excel have been mentioned often as having currupt executives and
being potentially bankrupt, while Reliant the company that bought Minnegasco
has already done another name change, meaning what -who knows?
I would say the PUC has been asleep on the job and politicians who
are supposed to be monitoring it all have been too absorbed with their press
notices to care a hoot about the PUC and issues thereof.
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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