News & Observer Index, 1926-1992

Utilities Commission, North Carolina

Measured-rate telephone service criticized - Ja 7 83 1D
35% phone rate hike request expected - Ja 8 83 1
Board defends trips of utility regulators - Ja 9 83 37A
Duke Power blames state panel in sale of coal mine operations - Ja 22 83 4C
Utilities Commission (bill for election of members) - Fe 12 83 WA-1
CP and L tells commission of goal to improve Brunswick plant - Fe 22 83 12C
Utility officials say N. C. hike unlikely in gas deregulation - Fe 28 83 3C
Utility panel sets prices for buying telephones - Mr 5 83 1C
Under the dome: Hunt set to put Cook on utilities panel - Ap 28 83 1
Rep. Cook named to replace Winters on utilities panel - Ap 30 83 1
Gas companies seek reduction in rates - My 6 83 20A
Green predicts approval of Cook (for Utilities Commission) - My 13 83 16D
Nominations (Cook; Gruber) to utility board posts clear panels - Jn 2 83 14A
Legislature OKs Cook for utilities board post - Jn 3 83 8B
Bell's per-call plan rejected - Jn 4 83 1
Under the dome: Success of utility bill baffles Ballenger - Jn 27 83 1
Agency told to reconsider power rate hikes - Se 8 83 18A
Southern Bell rate hike cut sharply - Se 15 83 1
Commissioner dissents in Bell rate case - Se 16 83 16D
Utilities panel asks lawmakers to oppose phone fees - Se 29 83 20A
Fees a factor in preserving phone service, panel told - Se 30 83 7B
Court orders board to verify Duke's '82 rate increase - Oc 5 83 2C
Most speakers at hearing oppose phone access fee - Oc 18 83 2C
Complexity of phone proposal delays access fee decision, N. C. official says - Oc 22 83 2C
CP and L, Public Staff ask panel to reconsider rate hike - Oc 25 83 2C
Phone access fees would hike profits, utilities panel told - No 5 83 1
Ingram reiterates plan for elected (utilities) commission - No 16 83 2C
Public given double dose of defense in utility cases - De 5 83 1
18.2% rate hike OK'd for Vepco - De 6 83 3C
Utilities Commission modifies CP and L rate increase - De 8 83 33A
N. C. Natural Gas gets rate hike; average bill to rise 6.8% - De 13 83 12C
Southern Bell long-distance access fee plan rejected - De 17 83 1
Duke Power rate increase request is rejected - De 21 83 18A
Editorial: Keeping phone rates fair - De 21 83 4A
ATTCOM given intrastate long-distance right - De 23 83 2D
Denial of access fee could spur lawsuit - De 28 83 2C
Utilities panel denies request by Southern Bell on access fee - De 29 83 14C
Southern Bell seeks to clarify ruling on AT and T breakup - De 31 83 5C

Utilities Commission, North Carolina

Panel has gradually warmed to North Carolina's utilities - Mr 21 82 12A
To Wall Street, N. C. panel is utilities' buddy - Mr 21 82 1
Utilities Commission members profiled - Mr 21 82 12A
Written dissents rare in major utility cases - Mr 21 82 12A
Editorial: Tilt toward utilities - Mr 24 82 4A
Repeal fuel adjustment law, utility regulators urge - Mr 26 82 1D
Utilities won't oppose study of efficiency - Ap 15 82 1
N. C. panel orders utilities to outline belt-tightening - Ap 22 82 1
Utilities panel has scheduled a p. r. circus - Ap 25 82 4D
Trailways files request to raise fares - My 2 82 40A
Rapid rise in phone rates to persist, officials predict - My 3 82 1
Utilities Commission members rebuke CP and L for salary hikes - My 14 82 1
Under the dome: Request to hire consultant meets delay - My 18 82 1
Editorial: A fair utilities law - Jn 17 82 4A
Panel told Vepco deserves profit cut for plant flaws - Jn 24 82 15A
CP and L rate hike hearing draws 200 unhappy Wayne residents - Jy 16 82 2D
Utilities official (Koger) to repay money for trip - Jy 27 82 1
Panel members report industry-financed trips - Au 1 82 26A
Chairman of utilities board seeks travel payment ruling (from state Ethics Board) - Au 4 82 2C
Utilities panel chief hails yellow page ruling - Au 12 82 7A
Panel cuts Vepco hike to $11.8 million - Au 27 82 1
Free calling among towns rejected - Au 29 82 25A
CP and L denied bulk of rate hike request - Se 25 82 1
Profits are a central issue in utilities rate increases - Se 26 82 17A
Utilities panel strengthening stance against industry, observers report - Se 26 82 1
Decision to raise natural gas bills - No 2 82 13A
Duke granted about one-third of $197 million rate request - No 2 82 1C
Measured phone rates offer option for callers - No 14 82 31A
Groups oppose Bell plan for measured-rate billing - De 8 82 1

Utilities Commission, North Carolina

'Retroactive rate-making' a murky issue, experts say - Ja 18 85 2D
Charges, refunds weighed in CP and L case - Ja 23 85 1
Panel again orders CP and L to refund about $3.5 million pending appeal - Ja 26 85 1C
State panel OKs long-distance telephone competition - Fe 23 85 18A
Panel approves plans for peat-fired plant (Craven County) - Mr 9 85 11A
Commission denies request for 'resale' by Southern Bell - Mr 30 85 1C
Gas pipeline company requests rate reduction - Mr 30 85 19A
Utilities panel OKs phone payment cuts - Mr 30 85 2C
Ruling may cut natural gas bill $35 a year - Ap 10 85 5C
S.C. company to challenge AT and T for long-distance, in-state services - Ap 13 85 12A
Group challenges power plant OK - Ap 16 85 2C
Martin names three to N.C. utilities panel (Tate; Wells; Wright) - My 2 85 4C
Panel says state power supplies adequate through '94 - My 3 85 2D
Commission considers options for CP and L refund - My 11 85 4C
Ruling would cut bus service to towns - My 12 85 39A
Utilities Commission rejects request on Haw dam water - My 15 85 3C
General Assembly Round-up: Utilities Commission (nominees accepted) - My 23 85 26A
N.C. utilities panel asked to act on water problem - My 25 85 1C
Companies upset by proposed rise in access charges - My 28 85 5C
General Assembly Roundup: Utilities Commission (appointments approved) - My 30 85 9A
Utilities panel supports rejecting trustee for Wake water companies - Jn 6 85 5C
Panel backs CP and L increase - Jn 19 85 2C
Thornburg asks Utilities Commission to cut Duke Power rates $180 million - Jn 27 85 22C
Martin to appoint High Point mayor (Wells) N.C. Utilities Commission chairman - Jn 28 85 1D
N.C. utility regulation may undergo change - Jy 2 85 3D
State asks court for water operator (Hasty Water Utility) - Jy 20 85 20C
Duke Power should cut rates, consultant tells commission - Jy 26 85 20D
AT and T asks utilities panel to cut cost of in-state calls - Au 3 85 6A
State urges countywide water system - Au 7 85 2C
End to measured phone service urged - Au 16 85 1D
Panel orders refund for CP and L customers - Se 11 85 16C
N.C. Utilities Commission OKs rate increase for Duke Power - Se 18 85 1C
Panel approves cut in AT and T's payments to phone companies - Se 19 85 21A
Typical bill to increase $1.74 a month as panel approves CP and L rate increase - Se 19 85 20C
Editorial: Lining Duke's pockets - Se 20 85 22A
Panel extends until Dec. phone firms' measured-billing options - Se 26 85 22C
N.C. utilities head asks for Shearon Harris audit - Oc 1 85 1C
Utilities panel orders cuts in phone case - Oc 4 85 3D
Panel cites error in Duke rate case - Oc 5 85 3C
CWIP law works well, legislative panel is told - No 27 85 3C
State, Public Staff appeal Duke rate hike approval - No 28 85 44A
AT and T plan to raise rates meets with opposition - De 4 85 3C
Public Staff asked to probe Harris plant construction - De 10 85 12A
Limited-calling phone plans expanded - De 19 85 4C
Reduced power rates ordered - De 28 85 16C

Utilities Commission, North Carolina

Utility PACs' gifts of $1,700 won't buy votes, Redman says - Ja 10 87 4C
Phone aid program expanded - Ja 23 87 3D
Utilities panel to decide fate of tax savings - Fe 15 87 31A
Bills from Heins Telephone Co. to rise 12 percent - Fe 18 87 5C
Some customer costs OK'd for 911 systems - Fe 21 87 WA-2
CP and L rate increase illegally approved, court rules - Mr 4 87 5C
2 panels back Redman for utilities commission - Mr 6 87 5A
Commission says Heater Utilities may keep providing water for now - Mr 24 87 2C
Panel proposes rules on meeting electric power needs - Mr 30 87 1C
Bill would let utilities panel base rates on past fuel costs - Ap 23 87 1C
N.C. utilities chief (Wells) to step down June 30 - Jn 6 87 1
Panel orders extended-area phone service (triangle area) - Jn 14 87 37A
Rate cut ordered for Duke Power - Jn 25 87 24A
Utilities chief pulls switch, decides to stay - Jn 30 87 1
Commission OKs cutting gas rates by about 1.6%; Public Service Co. savings arise from 1986
law - Jy 1 87 1C
Bell offers Triangle phone plan; State approval sought for extended local service options - Jy 2 87 1
Utility fuel-cost standards backed - Jy 2 87 24A
CP and L wins 7% increase in rates - Au 6 87 1
Gas firm (NC Natural Gas) told to pay refunds to customers - Au 18 87 18C
Commission lets industries benefit from lower gas prices - Se 23 87 20C
Plan to help people get telephones - Oc 4 87 44A
Editorial: Reaching out to gas customers - Oc 18 87 6D
Utilities told to pass along any tax savings - Oc 21 87 WA-1
Decision assailed on phone firms' tax savings - Oc 22 87 16C
Utilities board lifts moratorium on extending local phone service - Oc 29 87 10B
Public staff downplays phone system (triangle-wide local calls) - No 10 87 18C
Gas firms end effort to reduce cutoff visits - No 11 87 3C
Action may increase N.C. pay phones - No 19 87 3C
Triangle phone plans to get airing; State agency begins hearings Monday on possible regional
system - De 6 87 42A
Use of phone firms' savings studied; Lower taxes could help extend local service through
Triangle - De 9 87 16C
Fuquay-Cary-Apex local calling approved - De 16 87 2C
Phone-installation discounts set (low-income households) - De 23 87 6D

Utilities Commission, North Carolina

A and T consultant urges telephone competition in state - Oc 24 84 2C
Order reduces AT and T payments to phone firms by $11 million - No 3 84 1C
Bell gets rate hike; customer charges expected to drop - No 10 84 1
Panel approves CP and L rate hike below amount utility imposed - No 21 84 2C
Southern Bell rate hike cut by almost half - No 21 84 3C
Cut in Vepco rates ordered by panel - No 22 84 1C

Utilities Commission, North Carolina

Duke Power, commissioner disagree on stock-bond swap - Ja 8 82 30
Utilities panel approves Central Telephone tariff - Ja 17 82 30-I
$9.2 million hike in rates approved for Piedmont Gas - Fe 4 82 12
7.6% rate hike OK'd for long-distance rates - Fe 6 82 1C
Under the dome: Winters to stay on utilities commission - Fe 6 82 1
Residents (Johnston Co.) lose bid to connect to CP and L - Fe 11 82 3C
Utilities panel urged to reject fuel cost rate increase - Fe 18 82 13A
Utility panel refuses to dismiss requests by CP and L and Duke - Fe 19 82 8B
Bus service ordered restored in Durham - Fe 20 82 3C
Panel to issue ruling on bus service today - Fe 23 82 3C
Commission OKs rate hikes to cover utilities' fuel costs - Fe 27 82 1C
Bell given rate hike of 14.6% - Mr 4 82 1
Editorial: Consumers on the line - Mr 10 82 4A
Edmisten seeks more power for (attorney general's) office to argue utility rates - Mr 18 82 21A

Utilities Commission, North Carolina

MCI asks to compete within state; Southern Bell says local rates would rise - Ja 15 92, 11C
State denies Wake bid for toll-free calling - Ja 29 92, 1B
Editorial: Long distance obsolete in Wake - Fe 1 92, 14A
Bill would boost retirement pay; Utilities panel may benefit - Jn 8 92, 1
Boosting pensions for Utilities commissioners - Jn 8 92, 4A
Cobb says he didn't seek retirement bill - Jn 9 92, 4B
Editorial: A 'jolt' on pensions - Jn 10 92, 8A
Retirement benefit boost appears dead - Jn 11 92, 1B
Commission rejects competition on long-distance calling in N.C. - Se 10 92, 6C

Utilities Commission, North Carolina

New phone service could save consumers up to 60% - Ja 3 86 2D
Executive bonus paln ruled out - Fe 5 86 5C
Utilities Commission OKs pilot plan to save the poor money on phone bills - Mr 25 86 18C
Utilities panel votes to allow pay phone service competition - Mr 29 86 4C
More power plants not needed, group tells utility panel - Ap 18 86 12B
Under the dome: Turnover rate high for utilities position (to handle telecommunications matters) - Ap 19 86 1
Utility customers to get 'bill of rights' - My 3 86 3C
Commission orders cut in fee for phone access - Jn 18 86 18C
Federal agency questions phone rates - Jn 18 86 18C
Southern Bell opposes rate probe - Jn 20 86 5B
Tax act could save millions for N.C. utility customers - Oc 24 86 1
Commission refuses to raise General Telephone rate increase - Oc 31 86 8B
Duke Power wins rate increase; utilities panel chief cries foul - No 1 1
Utilities Commission approves gas rate increase on retail level - No 7 86 1D
Commission upholds most of gas firm's rate increase - No 11 86 20A
Dissent on utilities panel may affect more decisions - No 16 86 1
Glendale gives up operations; Another firm to run Wake water systems - No 25 86 1C
Utilities Commissioner Campbell to resign - No 25 86 20C
Panel refuses to reconsider (Duke Power) rate hike - De 3 86 18C

Utilities Commission, North Carolina

Under the dome: Hunt seeks black for Utilities Commission - Ja 17 84 1
Ingram's plan for elected utilities panel a 'cruel hoax' on public,
Faircloth says - Ja 20 84 12A
Ingram alone at gubernatorial forum in support of elected utilities
panel - Ja 29 84 18A
Wilson businessman (Branford) is named to utilities panel - Fe 1 84 11A
Southern Bell loses request for immediate rate increase - Fe 16 84 1C
Editorial: Ingram's shallow idea (election of Utilities Commission
members) - Fe 24 84 4A
Southern Bell seeks fees for AT and T access - Mr 13 84 1C
Electing utility commissioners lowers power bills, Ingram says - Mr 14 84 2C
S.C. firm seeks OK of N.C. panel to offer long-distance service - Mr 28 84 9A
AT and T told to pay fees to independent phone companies - Ap 3 84 1C
Bell to offer 'measured service,' says some bills may drop 50% - My 23 84 1C
Utility fuel charge adjustments aren't needed, commission says - My 23 84 WA-1

Utilities Commission, North Carolina

Phone companies dispute value put on leasing business - Ja 5 88 3C
Local telephone rates ordered cut in N. C. - Ja 6 88 6D
Agency (Utilities Commission) seeks more data on area phone plan - Ja 15 88 20C
PUBLIC STAFF (Utilities Commission) backs study of local Triangle calling - Ja 29 88 1C
Triangle firms oppose extending local phone service to all users - Fe 13 88 1
Panel orders CP&L to refund $4.1 million - Mr 1 88 3C
Program to help Tar Heels who can't afford phones - Mr 5 88 12A
Coalition urges utilities panel to hold off on new power plants - Mr 8 88 18C
State rejects (consumer and environmental) groups' call to ban new power plants, lines - Mr 15 88 3C
N.C. probes alternative phone plans (for hotels, motels, pay phones) - Mr 17 88 20A
Hearing set on CP&L rate proposal - Ap 3 88 35A
Consumers at hearing respond to Harris plant costs - Ap 5 88 1C
Panel orders waiver of fee to halt 976 calls; Utilities Commission says consumers shouldn't pay to
block services - Ap 5 88 1C
Costs of Triangle-wide calling to be studied by area's utilities - Ap 8 88 22C
Inquiry will test CP&L decisions on Harris plant - Ap 10 88 29A
N.C. Utilities Commission (sketches of members) - Ap 10 88 37A
CP&L officials will defend handling of nuclear plant building at hearing - Ap 14 88 5B
CP&L officials defend expense of Harris plant - Ap 15 88 1C
Studies for CP&L in '75 looked at consequences of canceling 2 reactors - Ap 16 88 12A
CP&L: Full hike could guarantee stability in rates - Ap 19 88 1C
Small gas rate hike approved for state - Ap 26 88 3C
Panel orders CP&L refund in June bills - Ma 5 88 16C
Chatham seeks place in regional telephone plan - Ma 10 88 8B
Natural gas bills for some customers will rise - Ma 10 88 1C
Tiny decrease proposed for CP&L users - Ma 12 88 12B
Engineers, CP&L dispute impact of delay on N-plant - Ma 20 88 24C
Duke Power chief defends push to diversify - Ma 24 88 2C
CP&L responds to accusations of mishandling N-plant building - Jn 1 88 18C
CP&L rate hike hearing hitting record length - Jn 8 88 18C
CP&L, Utilities Commission both on trial - Jn 11 88 11A
Utilities panel broadens study of regional calling system costs - Jn 14 88 18C
Utilities plan no new power plants to meet climbing electricity needs - Jn 16 88 16C
Thornburg asks panel to limit CP&L rate hike - Jy 14 88 2C
CP&L trims rate hike request; opponents seek bigger cut - Jy 15 88 20C
Commission blocks Duke's power line in Panthertown Valley - Jy 23 88 13A
Panel mum on rate hike for CP&L - Jy 23 88 1C
Ruling issued on uncertified phone services - Jy 23 88 12A
Analysts predicting cut in CP&L's rate request - Jy 28 88 1C

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