COVID NEGATIVE
April 5th, 2020
Results came in a couple days ago. NEGATIVE! For now… but the sinus crap is lingering on, and on, and on… that is SO frustrating.
Rx: Continued isolation, RARE trips out for essential stuff, and wait it out.
Times like this, I’m glad to work from home, though I miss the trips to meet with clients!
UPDATE: Corona State by State – call the Governors!
April 3rd, 2020
UPDATE: MO and AL now have STAY AT HOME ORDERS!
Agitating project for today in quarantine — contact all the pink and grey states on this map. Message? “LOCKDOWN NOW! You’re putting your state’s people at risk, and increasing infection, sickness, and deaths. Just do it — issue stay-at-home order NOW!”
What the hell is wrong with these states? And this is one reason why we need honest and ethical leadership at federal level.
Fauci: I don’t understand why all states are not under stay-at-home orders
Well, it’s called federal lack of leadership. Most states have stay-at-home orders, I was on Gov. Walz to do that, and we should have done it before Wisconsin, but at least he did do it. Now, on to these others, some of which have local stay-at-home but no STATEWIDE stay at home. Missouri and Alabama now have STAY HOME Orders. Come on, Governors, just do it:
Contact Iowa Governor
Freeborn Wind appeal updates
April 3rd, 2020
Got some catching up to do — I’ve been sick for almost a month now, felt like the sinus crap I get now and then and I did NOT want it to get “Goodhue Wind can’t talk” bad. I started isolating after a meeting March 5 because Alan was sick, I got it March 8, went to Mayo the end of that week, diagnosed as sinus and treated, and was told to screed for COVID the following Monday, when they were starting drive up testing, and was screened out because my symptoms were the opposite of COVID, but when I called in because I was hacking more, they wanted me to come in to test for COVID. OK, I can do that. Drive-up testing, yes, make it a meal… follow the security guy to the ambulance bay, swab up the nose, and wait 48 hours, maybe less, and NEGATIVE. Now, about this sinus crap…
In short, I’m not working much, brain is on vacation. But a lot has come in since we filed on March 18, 2020:
AFCL appeals PUC denial of EAW Petition
I’d filed a Motion for Consolidation and for a Stay on March 29, 2020 because we were STILL waiting on the Commission’s Order and Record of Decision, which the Commission had not filed, 5 weeks later, after their February 6, 2020 meeting (VIEW WEBCAST HERE! ):
So of course two days later, the Public Utilities Commission finally filed not only the Order denying AFCL’s Petition for EAW, but also granting Xcel Energy its Permit Amendment! April Fools? Nooooo, March 31, 2020…
Then on to April Fools Day, time for AFCL’s monthly status update to the Appellate Court:
Then the Respondents’ Statements of the Case came in:
Next was Xcel Energy’s response to our Motion:
And then the Court Order, dismissing the case until we go through the PUC process of Reconsideration and their (likely) denial of our Reconsideration request, then file appeal again, filing fee from this applicable to that. Good, because we HAD to appeal because for an EAW the appeal clock is triggered by the date the Notice of Decision was published, 30 days after that, it’s got to be filed. Didn’t want to lose opportunity by not filing. So now our appeal is locked in, and we’re back to PUC to “exhaust our administrative remedies.”
Yeah, exhausted, and onward we go.
An earlier Legalectric post: