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Credit Dan Boyce The Wyoming Senate gave its final approval on Friday to a bill that would change the net metering law in the state. Net Metering is a billing mechanism that credits solar energy system owners for electricity they add to the grid. This reduces their electricity bills. The legislation is intended to change the way solar customers are compensated but leaves it up to the Wyoming Public Service Commission to hold hearings and try to resolve differences between solar consumers and electric utilities. Electric utilities say solar users are raising the rates of their consumers. In di...
In this special episode, Colorado Public Radio reporter Dan Boyce uses interviews with friends and family, plus a fishing trip, to piece together lost memories from his own mental breakdown. A quick warning: This story is brutal at times, and raw. It contains content that may not be suitable for all listeners, including strong language and frank discussion of suicide. By the time Dan was 30, when most of this episode takes place, he was doing well for himself. He was moving from local reporting in his native Montana, to covering national stories from his new home in Denver. Dan had previously...
Kate's marriage. prosecutors charge that edwards requested, accepted, and received unlawful contributions, in order to hide his involvement in an extramarital affair, and thereby preserve the viability of his campaign to be president. >> no other candidate has ever been charged criminally with any case that even approximates this. >> reporter: ken gross, a former head of enforcement for the federal election commission and previously a consultant for edwards' defense, argues the case goes beyond the law. >> none of that money was used for any campaign-related expense. no tv ads, no radio ads, t...
Hunter, in fancy homes and on private jets. >> i don't think it's that novel. >> reporter: former federal prosecutor dan boyce says the government has laid out a strong case. >> the defense doesn't want this case to go to the jury. they're trying to get out of the case on a technicality. >> reporter: edwards insists he did not violate the law, and claims the case is politically motivated. if the judge doesn't buy edwards' arguments, he could be back in court for a trial in january. now the judge is not expected to rule today. by all accounts, edwards faces an uphill battle to get the case thro...