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Over 26 hours in 1982, I listened attentively to testimony at 14 public hearings held by the Illinois Commerce Commission, stretched over the length and width of Commonwealth Edison’s service area. We witnessed the same piteous event repeated and repeated that Christ told of in the parable of the unjust judge and the poor widow woman petitioning him . . . the difference being that in our times Edison and the Commission remain stony of heart, and the public will has so far degenerated that Edison remains arrogantly astride our world. We’ll stand up to the Soviets but not stick up for the helpless. Do we think, if we pretend this sort of thing isn’t happening, it will go away without our bothering to bring this corporate public servant to account? Not so.
Seven years later Edison appears to be moving to totally break the spirit of any ratepayer remaining and possessed of the spunk to complain.
