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The Partial Observer: New York’s Public Service Commission—Addressing the Challenges Ahead

As always, New York’s energy landscape is changing. In addition to the changes noted above, we face storms of increasing severity and frequency and demands to increase capacity, and dependence on electricity continues to grow. Yet, even with all these added complexities, in 2024 the average cost of a residential kilowatt hour in New York was roughly 30 percent less than in England.…
October 2, 2025

Bound Volumes: October 2, 2025

110 YEARS AGO: In Our Town—The Otesaga Hotel closes on Friday morning after breakfast, having had the most prosperous season of its existence. The plan of keeping the house open through the entire month of September has been more than satisfactory to Manager Knott, the patronage having been far above his anticipations. The house was filled to its capacity over the weekend. September 29, 1915…
October 2, 2025

Hometown History: October 2, 2025

110 YEARS AGO: Paper ballots and not voting machines must be used for submitting the proposed new state constitution to the voters at the election on November 2. The decision was rendered as an opinion by Attorney General Woodbury in response to inquiries by Secretary of State Hugo. However, the voting machines may be used for voting upon the two constitutional amendments authorized by the legislature, including referendum or woman suffrage and a $27,000,000 bond issue to complete the barge…
October 2, 2025
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