WPCNR MR. & MRS. & MS. WHITE PLAINS VOICE. June 16, 2005: A reader notes that the NY Post is the first paper after the White Plains CitizeNetReporter to take notice of the rash of Con Ed power failures.
While I realize you are anxious to blame the scattered power outages in White Plains on the development boom, perhaps you'd like to read this. It is a NY State problem, but I don't expect you to acknowledge that.
The CitizeNetReporter Replies:
Dear WPCitizen,
I am pleased to see the New York Post actually is paying attention to the question of why the power keeps going out and the issue of what's the matter with the Con Ed hamsters.
The New York Post is the first media to join the CitizeNetReporter in asking why the power keeps going out.
I just report the power going out. And the fact that Con Ed never tells us why. It has nothing to do with White Plains downtown development or does it? It would be nice to know, wouldn't it? I mean what happened to that big transformer last summer, anyway? Was it overload that torched the feeder cables? What?
I cannot reprint the NY Post story because it violates their copyright.
The CitizeNetReporter continues to report the news. Blackouts, brownouts, on a consistent basis are news. I have received the same sort of stone walling from Mr. Olert that the Post experienced and reports in the story.
Perhaps the prestigious Journal News will have better luck in finding out what's going haywire so often in basically routine, though humid summer weather. Temperatures did not exceed 88 in the shade during this heatwave. And White Plains wavered, went out, and blinked electronically over the weekend.
By the way, I think "scattered" does not describe the multiple power outages we've seen the last two months.
John Bailey
Executive Editor
White Plains CitizeNetReporter
