City council voted 8-3 Thursday to let CPS Energy boost its rates by 3.85%, a request the municipally owned utility made amid a storm of criticism over recent management failures and last February’s crippling power outages. In a separate 9-2 vote, council also approved a fee that will allow CPS to recoup some of the […]

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