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	<title>Consumers Council of Missouri</title>
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		<title>PSC twice denies AmerenUE</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2010/01/22/psc-twice-denies-amerenue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PSC twice denies AmerenUE

By Jeffrey Tomich
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
01/14/2010

Missouri regulators denied AmerenUE twice on Wednesday, including a proposal for a 1.7 percent interim electric rate increase that would have been part of an 18 percent hike requested by the utility.
The Public Service Commission also rejected what was viewed as an effort by AmerenUE to muzzle a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attend PSC hearings on AmerenUE rate request</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2010/01/05/attend-psc-hearings-on-amerenue-rate-request/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2010/01/05/attend-psc-hearings-on-amerenue-rate-request/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Missouri Public Service Commission is holding public hearings during the month of January on the $402 million rate request filed by AmerenUE.
More than 100 people attended the recent hearing in St. Charles County.  The St. Louis area hearings are scheduled of January 19 and 20.
Please check the Missouri Service Commission Website for locations and more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Dispatch Editorial re AmerenUE</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/12/09/post-dispatch-editorial-re-amerenue/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/12/09/post-dispatch-editorial-re-amerenue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Brother, can you spare some dimes for AmerenUE?
By Editorial Board

To AmerenUE, $37.3 million isn’t much money, about $1.31 per customer per month.
As a lawyer for Missouri’s state’s largest electric company memorably put it last week, that “amounts to the change most people have on their dresser at home, or carry in their pockets.”
AmerenUE wants that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbia Tribune Editorial on Pay Day Loans</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/12/03/columbia-tribune-editorial-on-pay-day-loans/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/12/03/columbia-tribune-editorial-on-pay-day-loans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tribune&#8217;s View
Payday loans
Time for control?
By Henry J. Waters IIIThursday, November 19, 2009Rep. John Burnett of Kansas City has tried to rein in the activities of the payday loan industry in Missouri every year since he joined the Missouri General Assembly in 2002. Now he is joined in the crusade by our own Mary Still. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Coffman to Attend Financial Service Conference</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/11/10/john-coffman-to-attend-financial-service-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/11/10/john-coffman-to-attend-financial-service-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers Council&#8217;s John Coffman will be attending the Financial Services Conference  presented by the Consumer Federation of America on Decemer 3 and 4.

Federal and state policy makers and regulators continue to address pressing banking, insurance, investment, and real estate issues affecting consumers, after more than two decades of financial services deregulation and reregulation. To keep consumer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alberta Slavin Consumer Award</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/09/11/alberta-slavin-consumer-award/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/09/11/alberta-slavin-consumer-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first annual Alberta Slavin Consumer Award will be presented to Lewis Mills, Public Counsel of the State of Missouri on Sunday, September 13th.
The award will be presented at the Consumer Council&#8217;s annual meeting and will be presented to Mr. Mills for his outstanding dedication to representing Missouri consumers and because of his courageous promotion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Dispatch:  Lenders shouldn&#8217;t be utility collectors.</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/09/01/post-dispatch-lenders-shouldnt-be-utility-collectors/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/09/01/post-dispatch-lenders-shouldnt-be-utility-collectors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[                             
Lenders shouldn&#8217;t be utility collectors.
09/01/2009
Sending the poor to pay utility bills at a payday lender is like sending the hungry for a meal in a shark tank.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New PSC member named</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/07/30/new-psc-member-named/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/07/30/new-psc-member-named/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Louis attorney Robert Kenney named by Nixon to PSC
By Tony Messenger
St. Louis Post-Dispatch


JEFFERSON CITY — Robert Kenney didn’t last long in the attorney general’s office.

The St. Louis attorney who had been named earlier this year as chief of staff by Attorney General Chris Koster will be leaving that office to take a position on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted:  A regulator</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/07/30/wanted-a-regulator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the St. Louis Post Dispatch
07/29/2009


Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon will soon, possibly as early as today, make one of his most important appointments since taking office in January: He will try, for the second time, to fill the fifth seat on the Missouri Public Service Commission.
The PSC regulates the state&#8217;s investor-owned utility companies; the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Federation of America Video</title>
		<link>http://moconsumers.org/2009/07/16/consumer-federation-of-america-video/</link>
		<comments>http://moconsumers.org/2009/07/16/consumer-federation-of-america-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Federation of America has produced a video asking consumers to contact Congress in support of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.  The video can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTu52TOXtI4
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