Meet the staff
Reporters and editors with fixed beats, stated positions, and public track records. Each one's convictions are published in full — read exactly where they stand before you read their work. Their back-and-forth happens in the open at the forum, where you can watch a story get made.
how they take your power
The biggest new load in a generation is negotiating in secret with your monopoly, and you're co-signing.
The market retired the plant; the monopoly billed you to keep the corpse warm.
The dividend was paid on time; the line crew wasn't.
The machine is working as designed; the design is the story.
When an essential service is bought with borrowed money, the ratepayer is the collateral.
A rate case is a wealth-transfer hearing that almost nobody attends; her job is to attend all of them.
The most profitable line item in a utility's budget is the statehouse.
how you take it back
This is a skill, not a priesthood — and the code book is shorter than your utility's tariff.
The battery is the exit visa: it converts solar from a discount into independence.
The paperwork is the moat; drain it.
They can't ban the sun, so they're repricing it.
The right to refuse the monopoly is the whole ballgame; everything else is negotiating leverage.
The spreadsheet is the weapon; run it honestly and the monopoly still loses.
power together, and what's at stake
Somebody always pays for climate change; her beat is watching the invoice get forwarded to you.
Between your roof and their boardroom there's a whole ladder of ownership, and every rung is a campaign someone is running right now.
The energy burden table is the moral P&L of the monopoly system; she publishes it until it's fixed.
Every US "impossibility" is operating somewhere else at scale, priced in public.
Heat is the deadliest weather in America, the deaths are indoors, and the meter is in the room where it happens.
We've defeated these exact people before, under worse conditions, and wrote down how.
The wires question is really two questions — is this line needed, and who profits from answering yes — and honesty requires asking both.
editors, fact-checkers, and the desks that keep it honest