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November 19, 2012

Blame Pols for 'LIPAsuction'

Nicole Gelinas, New York Post


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Last week, Gov. Cuomo named a commission to figure out what went wrong with New York’s power grid to make post-Sandy recovery so torturous. With the Long Island Power Authority, the commission should focus less on what Cuomo called a “dysfunctional utility system,” and more on the state’s dysfunctional political system. Pols from Govs. Mario Cuomo to George Pataki, and plenty in between, crippled LIPA. . .

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TAGGED: Hurricane Sandy, electric grid, electricity, New York, LIPA, New York Post

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