Comments on: City of Tallahassee,Tallahassee Democrat, Misleads Citizens on Electric Rates

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:54:27 +0000

Calling the Tallahassee Democrat a “newspaper” is an insult to the term in it’s intended journalistic definition.
The Democrat is a far-leftist, pro-government (unless that government is largely composed of Conservatives) information-manipulation publication, attempting to serve the same function as the national “mainstream media” misinformation industry.
The Democrat serves no valid journalistic purpose since it long ago abandoned any pretense of practicing the profession in its true form.

My only question is how it’s managed to publish as long as it has – I don’t know anyone who subscribes to it or buys a copy with any regularity. The prop-up money must come from the Gannett company and hopefully they’ll cease wasting it in Tallahassee soon.

By: Frances Powell

Frances Powell — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:12:58 +0000

It appears that regardless of who is at the helm of the Tallahassee Democrat the COT is given a free pass for anything.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:48:41 +0000

Get your checkbook ready…

By: DavidB

DavidB — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:51:00 +0000

In reply to Jim. Well, you, obviously.

By: News_Maven

News_Maven — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:17:39 +0000

In reply to Jim. If you are a subscriber and want to know about the village idiot, put down the paper and look in the mirror.

By: Sal Christiano

Sal Christiano — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 03:35:06 +0000

And again I am not surprised. I am a COT electric service customer who lives in the county and my house receives power from Talquin lines. Because of an “agreement” ( a rule change drafted into law in the mid 90’s) I get to pay COT for electric service even though they have nothing to say when I call about service outages except, “you’re on Talquin lines, we can’t help you.”

As a municipality that does not have to worry about competition, because they can legislate competitors out of existence, COT utilities doesn’t concern itself with providing the best service with competitive rates. Every couple of years I do a cost comparison with one of my neighbors who is billed by Talquin, and in nearly 20 years I have NEVER paid less then them per KWhr. Some years the difference has been dang near 50% more per KWhr.

Please give us a real choice; let those of us who live connected to Talquin lines choose Talquin as our billing entity instead of COT.

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 02:27:06 +0000

Of course there are going to be increases…a hurricane just came through and now we get to pay for all of the damages and labor involved in the clean up.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 00:50:38 +0000

And what was the editor’s response to your last question when your journalistic ethics to contact them for their right to reply?

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:26:22 +0000

Why does this make me think of the article the Democrat did a few months ago about how expensive underground power lines would be.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:00:09 +0000

Who still pays attention to this rag?