Source: David Anderson, KINSTON FREE PRESS, 1/11/12
 

Debt relief from the state is not an option for lowering costs to local municipal electric customers.
That was the word from Sen. Buck Newton, R-Wilson, during Tuesday’s meeting of a special legislative committee convened to find a way of relieving Eastern North Carolina electric customers of high electric costs, which many consider to be the main reason why the region is stymied economically.

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