Due to the Republican walkout, only three bills were enacted during the 2020 legislative session.

This is in stark contrast to a hallmark of my work at CUB since 1992: collaboration in developing energy and utility regulation policy among disparate stakeholders.... Read More »

February 3 marked the beginning of the five-week 2020 Oregon legislative session, and CUB staff are already hard at work in Salem advocating for residential utility customers. This short blog update will:

1. Highlight our top legislative policy priorities for 2020.
2. Outline how CUB’s... Read More »

Editor’s note: The Oregon Public Utility Commission signed and approved this acquisition order on the morning of January 27, 2020.

As CUB reported in July 2019, Frontier Communications (Frontier) agreed in principle last summer to sell its Northwest (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington)... Read More »

An egregious though little publicized legislative defeat during the 2019 session that ended in June was HB 2184, a CUB-supported bill championed by Representative Pam Marsh (D) that would have benefited rural communities directly by:

1. Solving a long-standing fairness issue with... Read More »

Interactions between information and communications technology (ICT) regulation and legislative policy development are complex, and too often they don’t reflect residential customers’ best interest. This complexity merits a two-part blog. “Part 1” summarized CUB’s consumer advocacy history in the ICT arena,... Read More »

Interactions between information and communications technology (ICT) regulation and legislative policy development are complex, and too often they don’t reflect residential customers’ best interest. This complexity and impact to residential customers merits a two-part blog. Today’s “Part 1” entry summarizes CUB’s early ICT... Read More »