SHARI WEIR IN CRAIN'S ON THE FIRST ENERGY RATE CASE:

In the current case... the PUCO gave First Energy, conditionally, an additional $2 billion in exchange for nothing at all...

What if Gov. Bob Taft said his second-term economic plan was to pull $1 billion out of the northern Ohio economy in each of 2006, 2007, and 2008?

That's what Taft's appointee Mr. Schriber and a majority of the PUCO just decided to let First Energy do. The "Third Frontier" turns out to be our pockets.

Ohio Citizen Action has the whole Crain's op-ed posted on its website.