City of Portland Mayor, Ted Wheeler, proclaimed the week of May 7-11, 2018 as “Digital Inclusion Week”. The Portland Office for Community Technology (OCT) invited CUB’s Outreach Manager, Samuel Pastrick, to testify on CUB’s behalf to review the intersection of Digital... Read More »

It is always hard to say “goodbye” to members of our staff who move on to other places. This time, however, we can’t help but celebrate the great opportunity Liz Jones and her family have as they move to Germany next... Read More »

(Editor’s note: The following includes key updates to the original post of this article on April 20.)

On Thursday May 10, from 8:30am-4pm, at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in downtown Portland, the greater Multnomah County-area Digital Inclusion Network (DIN) will... Read More »

Utilities earn a rate of return on their capital investments. This is the main source of profit for utility companies - when they build a generating plant or put pipes in the ground, they recover that capital investment from customers... Read More »

In its latest rate case, filed last December, NW Natural sought a 9.04 percent increase in rates for residential customers. That value was lowered after the passage of the 2017 Tax Act, which reduced the corporate income tax rate from... Read More »

Last Friday, April 13, I had the opportunity to represent CUB on a panel of utility representatives, regulators, and public interest stakeholders at a symposium entitled “Charging Forward: The Future of Energy in Oregon”, a joint effort between the University of... Read More »