tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post4785678210932741896..comments2023-12-07T00:44:23.610-08:00Comments on The Trojan Heron: Guest Column - The Straight Story on OPALCOECKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13031277544085651063noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-74664202933349891962020-04-08T06:41:26.365-07:002020-04-08T06:41:26.365-07:00It is really helpful for investors. Great work. He...It is really helpful for investors. Great work. Here we also offer some interesting topics related to share market. 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The pattern appears to be candidates nominated by committee, followed by petition candidates. Is he still fuming that he wasn't the committee's choice?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-1898543282567067562015-04-08T09:56:22.278-07:002015-04-08T09:56:22.278-07:00AND, on the actual ballot you mark to vote on, Hud...AND, on the actual ballot you mark to vote on, Hudson was listed separate from the other candidates, board candidates were listed center left and Hudson far to the right side under some heading I can't remember.<br /><br />Maybe: "Oh yeah, this other person."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-57364886055921402932015-04-08T09:49:02.757-07:002015-04-08T09:49:02.757-07:00Meanwhile Sen. Wanker hath become a BIG DEAL PROGR...Meanwhile Sen. Wanker hath become a BIG DEAL PROGRESSIVE DEM. Read all about it. Make sure you write Him and thank Him for the job He hath created unto you. What s hot steaming pile. What a waste of space. And we're whining about Jarman??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-32677680717081866102015-04-08T09:41:07.119-07:002015-04-08T09:41:07.119-07:00No, it was blatant. This isn't about content. ...No, it was blatant. This isn't about content. It had the candidates on the front page, then a bunch of text, except Steve, literally a page or 2 later. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-38549453753569441632015-04-08T08:53:51.882-07:002015-04-08T08:53:51.882-07:00Given that the candidates write their own bios, an...Given that the candidates write their own bios, and they are minimally edited before they go on the ballot, then perhaps the treatment of Steve Hudson was self-inflicted?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-84269632434133418392015-04-07T20:07:28.631-07:002015-04-07T20:07:28.631-07:00"Look at the Madrona Institute--can anyone te..."Look at the Madrona Institute--can anyone tell me what it DOES?"<br /><br />That's easy - the Madrona Institute is the environmental non-profit version of what the Port of Lopez is. <br /><br />The Port of Lopez has two functions: 1) it's a private club for well-off old men who have penis substitutes with wings; 2) it denies it's a private club for well-off old men who have penis substitutes with wings.<br /><br />The Madrona Institute creates position papers explaining the need for more grants. Grants are used to create position papers explaining the need for more grants. Fortunately, it's a closed system, so Teh Crazy never really escapes, it just goes around in circles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-21688783082624353862015-04-07T18:52:10.784-07:002015-04-07T18:52:10.784-07:00It will be interesting and revealing to see if the...It will be interesting and revealing to see if the OPALCO ballot is printed in the same manner (a total screw job on Cornelius and Sutton) as it was in the treatment of candidate Steve Hudson.<br /><br />Even a proxy attorney would have blushed at the separation of "Board Candidates" and the parking of Hudson off in the hinterlands to the side.<br /><br />No matter who you want to vote for, this type of corporate rigging the outcome is just as bad for your stocks as it is for OPALCO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-10512447648267292372015-04-07T13:31:46.487-07:002015-04-07T13:31:46.487-07:00What does "democratic development of the ener...What does "democratic development of the energy sector" mean anyway? Is this supposed be obvious? Do we have a "talking circle" and pass the "speaker's rock" around the room while "the people" debate interconnect standards for micro-grids, and free solar panels?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-52785540665962433482015-04-07T12:11:32.391-07:002015-04-07T12:11:32.391-07:00Can we crowdfund an analysis of County management ...Can we crowdfund an analysis of County management in the same vein? Maybe we can create our own nonprofit group? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-52735039299343276982015-04-07T11:53:23.021-07:002015-04-07T11:53:23.021-07:00Something tells me that you're not going to ge...Something tells me that you're not going to get WD pitching in on those pages, but WD is watching, and you are very welcome to repost anything you see on TH. Fair use, but more importantly, if you like it, share it. No pride of ownership. We just want the truth.ECKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13031277544085651063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-45629714347273585022015-04-07T11:52:36.100-07:002015-04-07T11:52:36.100-07:00While I find the diversity of residents here in Sa...While I find the diversity of residents here in San Juan County invigorating and often amusing, the place is truly overrun with people who believe that they have all the answers AND that they must start yet another nonprofit to "help" (read control) the rest of us. Chom Graecen is a good example. Why is she qualified to "found" Palang Thai, a nongovernmental organization that conducts public-interest research and works for fair, sustainable, and democratic development of the energy sector? There are literally hundreds of these folks who know better than the rest of us. It's one thing to have an opinion; it's another to think one self so important in the scheme of things to create a new organization and squawk nonstop about an issue without rhyme or reason to support you. Kind of a marriage of narcissism and a con game (if grant funds are available). Look at the Madrona Institute--can anyone tell me what it DOES? And the Friends--dividing the community with phony science for 30 years. Sigh.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-42758599031319665432015-04-07T11:17:01.824-07:002015-04-07T11:17:01.824-07:00I'd love to see W.D. Morgan weigh in and share...I'd love to see W.D. Morgan weigh in and share the wisdom and deep analysis with the public. I see Chom has posted widely, including http://www.salishrocks.org/page.php?type=item&item_handle=1428294902&menu_type=forum&return=32&comment_handle=1428426867#1428426867 and http://orcasissues.com/lies-behind-opalcos-rate-increases#comment-308165Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-8463424134752207152015-04-07T10:49:26.669-07:002015-04-07T10:49:26.669-07:00I'd been trying to draft a response to some of...I'd been trying to draft a response to some of the recent letters from Mr. MacLeod and Ms. Greacen alleging that OPALCO was hiding the cost of broadband in the 2015 budget and rate increases, and then I read "W.D. Morgan's" letter above, which did a much better and more thorough job. <br /><br />I am in full agreement with Morgan. In no way is the OPALCO board hiding information from us. Morgan correctly points out that the issue, if anything, is that OPALCO is not a simple business whose operation can be summarized in a line or two. The data are all there, but it does take effort to work through it. <br /><br />Doing so is something that Mr. MacLeod has declined to do, in favor of simply repeating accusations and creating conspiracy theories with little or no evidence backing them. <br /><br />Ms. Greacen, on the other hand, has plunged into the deep waters of the budget, and in several recent posts has claimed to find places in the budget where power-side expenditures "really" are broadband expenditures. I believe that she is mistaken. Underground cable replacement is not a euphemism for "installing fiber" as she implies. It means, literally, replacing power cables. How do I know this? Because there is red conduit and power distribution cable being replaced in my neighborhood right now, and the board has repeatedly discussed this as a long term project. <br /><br />It is true that this board and this OPALCO is not the sleepy board and coop of yesteryear. But neither do we live in yesteryear. <br /><br />I see the board's 2015 budget as a document which balances some difficult realities and takes on some important challenges for the membership, and I continue to commend the board on its efforts to take on the many challenges of aging infrastructure, complex undersea cable upgrades, changes to our relationship with BPA, climate change, and the increasing transition of broadband service from a luxury to a utility.<br /><br />And I thank "W.D. Morgan" for doing such an amazing job of walking us all through the details. I look forward to hearing more of their analysis!Mark Madsennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-81279181678820553352015-04-07T09:23:38.752-07:002015-04-07T09:23:38.752-07:00"I don't know what to think. I am suspici..."I don't know what to think. I am suspicious of OPALCO, but I don't want to be played the fool either. It's become a he-said, she-said bonker job, and the only facts I have to go on are the ones in the article above. No one else is talking facts and ratios."<br /><br />No, the facts are there - all you have to do is go read them. Go read the budget summary - it's linked in the article above. Never trust anyone, including Capt Morgan. Don't let anyone decide for you. Assume everyone is an unreliable narrator. Find out for yourself.<br /><br />Like Capt Morgan said, OPALCO's main PR problem at this point is that they provide so much information it's hard to wade through. They should designate one of the public information positions that Chom is complaining about the cost of as being the official curator of the information they put out. <br /><br />Chom, Steve Ludwig and the usual suspects will complain that they can't get straight answers from OPALCO, yet the co-op puts out an unprecedented amount of information. The anti-broadband crowd (including each and every one of the ones who claims they're not anti-broadband) uses the claim that "we can't get answers, and we only have more questions" as a strategy in stopping the progress. At the heart of their questions is the falsehood that everyone else but them is lying, committing fraud and hiding their crimes. If Chom wants me to believe that everyone on the OPALCO board, OPALCO management, BPA management and God knows who else is lying, why should I believe her? She has an agenda, she just won't admit what it is. She "just has questions".<br /><br />Steve Ludwig's comment last night on LR is outrageous - he's accusing OPALCO of an ongoing financial fraud and asserting that they are directly responsible for deaths. Two comments: if he is aware of those crimes, he has an affirmative obligation to bring them to the attention of the prosecuting attorney in the county and/or the WA state AG's office. [Of course he won't because, like his allegations that the OPALCO board is in violation of certain RCWs - interesting that the cite changes over time, are false.] His "leakers" (if they exist somewhere outside of his own mind) are protected under any of several applicable whistleblower statutes. Unless, and maybe this is where he's three steps ahead of all of us, he and they are worried about the OPALCO board murdering the leakers in their sleep. Me, I like my heroes a bit better looking than Steve - get back to me when Matthew McConaughey is playing the role. Or Robert Redford when he was 35. Oh my. Second, Steve is implying potentially false facts in support of what is in all likelihood a defamatory statement. An opinion based on a specific disclosed fact would be a protected First amendment statement. Someone implying that he a) has possession of certain facts unknown to the general public, and b) makes a statement based on those facts, might have an interesting time ahead of him. The legal defense to defamation requires that the person prove that his statements are "substantially true". If Steve knows a first amendment attorney, this might be a good time to buy him or her a cup of coffee. If I were OPALCO, I'd be on the phone to our corporate counsel this morning. Liz Browningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-82070149825050749682015-04-07T09:16:41.642-07:002015-04-07T09:16:41.642-07:00Chom and her husband run a solar and energy consul...Chom and her husband run a solar and energy consulting business. They are trying to install solar at Lopez school. Nothing wrong with that, but they would probably like it if opalco went down the tubes and they got all their business. Constrain opalco finances, keep growth in these islands limited. First they come for your land, then your water, then your internet, and then your electricity. Hard to grow an island economy when you don't have any of those. We'll all be on solar, using dial up, sipping water from our catchment tanks, on micro-parcels of land in multi-use developments, paying taxes for all the things we don't do anymore. Heaven.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-6559197098957315002015-04-07T08:35:18.266-07:002015-04-07T08:35:18.266-07:00Good analysis. Here's the straight story on th...Good analysis. Here's the straight story on the straight story. OPALCO's original broadband plans were sloppy. Lots of blowback. They made some mistakes with sending out threatening letters. They changed. They improved. They got Rockisland on board. Much better internet plans now. <br /><br />Their electricity rates are going up regardless. They didn't set aside enough money in the past for infrastructure upgrades FOR ELECTRICITY. Now they have to. Same time Bonneville is beefing up prices. We're screwed on electricity prices no matter what happens. Not broadband's fault.<br /><br />Critics are blaming all of OPALCO's woes on broadband. Eliminating broadband won't solve them. Also, critics haven't changed as much as OPALCO has. Critics are singing the same song they've been singing for years, and THEY need to update their criticisms.<br /><br />Creating strange bedfellows. Alex and Chom. I don't think those two would agree on anything, but they agree on OPALCO. Sure sign that one or both are off their mark.<br /><br />No one is going to bring us broadband if OPALCO doesn't. Can't count on C-Link. OPALCO is a good option. Public utility owned by all. Supposed to provide a return to shareholders, if they make one. That's us. We vote too. Better option than C-Link taking their money and running. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-20693451955908006782015-04-07T08:19:22.991-07:002015-04-07T08:19:22.991-07:00Now I am suffering from cognitive dissonance. Alex...Now I am suffering from cognitive dissonance. Alex MacLeod is on the same side as the Land Trust people? Alex has a letter in the Island Guardian claiming financial mismanagement at OPALCO as usual, but W.D. Morgan's analysis is the most factual review I've seen so far.<br /><br />I don't know what to think. I am suspicious of OPALCO, but I don't want to be played the fool either. It's become a he-said, she-said bonker job, and the only facts I have to go on are the ones in the article above. No one else is talking facts and ratios.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-12968634247647979672015-04-07T08:05:26.243-07:002015-04-07T08:05:26.243-07:00How much longer before Chom is head of both the FO...How much longer before Chom is head of both the FOSJ and the Lopez Community Land Trust? She seems well positioned to take over both as their politburos age out. <br /><br />She has a future. <br /><br />For someone who doesn't like OPALCO's internet plans, she uses email a lot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-32771669103568667392015-04-07T07:59:20.347-07:002015-04-07T07:59:20.347-07:00You should understand it because it's all part...You should understand it because it's all part of the same economic belief system. Luddite, tourist-overwelmed, government-enlarged, low wage, grant-funded economic "sustainability" in a county run by the FOSJ and the various affordable housing gulags. They don't want people to lead independent, useful lives. They want all of us to be low wage members of the collective. We take orders better that way. All private enterprise is bad, no matter how good it is. All government enterprise is good, no matter how bad it is.<br /><br />That is Chom Graecen's role. To be the spokeswoman for that system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-41924236018496934292015-04-07T01:25:34.890-07:002015-04-07T01:25:34.890-07:00I cannot understand why the same people who think ...I cannot understand why the same people who think OPALCO is in financial trouble have no problem believing that public money grows on trees and the county is a money machine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-24351199552400170902015-04-07T01:20:24.285-07:002015-04-07T01:20:24.285-07:00Can Ms. Morgan please do the same analysis for the...Can Ms. Morgan please do the same analysis for the County budget?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com