Letter to the Editor:
Say what? Pass through where?
July 19, 2019
I hate to admit how many years I have misconstrued the franchise system. So I will just round it off at 50 years ago that I started believing that when a utility was granted a franchise for a community, it was dipping into their profit money and giving some to the city in exchange for the franchise. I also thought that a franchise was worth so much to the utility because it would keep another company from bidding in a lower rate to get the job.
Silly me.
I probably would have even been willing to charge a company an extra dollar to get the new franchise. Who would have ever guessed that the co...
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