Inaugural Anniversary Club Campaign a Big Success
Posted on May 12, 2015 by Bob Jenks
Tags, General Interest
CUB began 2015 by launching a year-long Anniversary Club fundraising campaign. Named in honor of our 30th year as Oregon’s primary advocate for residential utility customers, the Anniversary Club campaign reflects CUB’s ever-present need to build and sustain internal capacity. The... Read More »
Heat or Eat: Take a Stand and Join
Posted on April 21, 2015 by Samuel Pastrick
Tags, General Interest
Late last fall, I sat in on a public meeting in Southern Oregon for one of the major utilities providing natural gas service to the area. They had just proposed a second rate increase in less than a year– one to... Read More »
CUB General Counsel And Regulatory Program Director is Leaving CUB
Posted on March 13, 2015 by Bob Jenks
Tags, General Interest
General Counsel and Regulatory Program Director, Catriona McCracken, is leaving CUB. Catriona has been with CUB since 2008.
When Catriona joined CUB in 2008 there were only four other CUB staff members: Bob Jenks, (Executive Director) Jeff Bissonnette (Organizing Director), the... Read More »
CUB Anniversary Club: a New Way to Support Our Mission
Posted on February 11, 2015 by Bob Jenks
Tags, General Interest
As you know, over 30 years ago CUB was established by Oregon voters through a ballot initiative. However, we didn’t actually begin fighting for Oregon utility rate-payers until 1985. Then as now, protecting pocketbooks, defending the public interest in front of... Read More »
It’s Board Election Time at CUB!
Posted on January 26, 2015 by Amelia Lamb
Tags, General Interest
As a nonprofit that was founded through a ballot initiative, CUB is in a fairly unique position when it comes to the structure of our governing board. Much of the language that forms CUB’s bylaws was spelled out in the bill that... Read More »