DISCUSSION: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH "THE REP?" HUGE NEWS IN AEP (OHIO POWER) RATE INCREASE REQUEST BUT NOTHING IN THE REP?

Courtesy of an e-mail by STARK COUNTY POLITICAL REPORT (The Report) reader Kevin Ellis of Louisville, The Report graphic is an Akron Beacon Journal piece today giving the outline of an PUCO recommendation that the AEP request for a 52% electric rate increases over the next three years be pared down to 29%.

Ellis remains opposed to any increase as evidenced by his e-mail to the PUCO, to wit:

REFERENCE: OCC 150251104

Hi Again Brian Vogt,

I would imagine that the OCC is well aware of this 11/10/08 "PUCO STAFF RECOMMENDATION" but those of us sitting in the bleachers most definitely are not impressed!! WE NEED A HOME RUN or A TOUCHDOWN!!

Shares of General Motors selling at less than THREE DOLLARS and PUCO thinks that a 29% AEP increase is FAIR?? GIVE ME A BREAK!!

Kevin R. Ellis

Louisville OH

330-875-0676

Note that the PUCO report is carried by the Akron Beacon Journal whose readers most likely get serviced by First Energy (Ohio Edison) not AEP (Ohio Power) which serves most of Stark County.

Yet Stark County's largest newspaper - The Repository - has nothing of the PUCO recommendation as of 11:00 a.m. this morning on it online edition.

The Repository went the better part of the a week before paying any attention to the original AEP request of a 52% residential and 62% business increase which was the subject of a local hearing held at Glennwood Middle School located within the city of Canton on October 16th.

So what is up with The Rep? Probably the hottest story in Stark County in terms of its potential adverse economic effect on Stark Countians, and, The Rep keeps getting scooped by the STARK COUNTY POLITICAL REPORT and the Summit County based Akron Beacon Journal?

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