Pacific Gas & Electric plans to cut power to 89,000 customers in parts of 16 counties beginning early Sunday as dry, unseasonably hot conditions and strong winds continue to increase fire danger across much of Northern California, officials announced Saturday evening.
The shut-off will be in three phases and last until late Monday, officials said. The first phase will begin at 2 a.m. Sunday and include about 15,000 customers in Butte, Plumas, Shasta and Tehama counties.
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San Francisco's preliminary indoor dining guidelines severely limits customers - SFGate
A sign lets patrons know outdoor dining is open on the patio at Red's Java House in San Francisco on Sept. 10, 2020. San Francisco released preliminary guidelines Friday stating how restaurants can proceed with indoor dining once the county reaches the orange tier.
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San Francisco released a preliminary draft of its indoor dining guide Friday, ahead of the expected move of San Francisco into the orange tier of California's color-coded COVID-19 reopening plan, on Tuesday.
City launches sweepstakes for paperless utility customers | Escondido Times-Advocate
The City of Escondido September 15 launched a sweepstakes for water, sewer and trash customers who sign up for paperless billing or enroll in AutoPay. Three prizes – an iPad mini and two $50 Amazon gift cards – will be awarded.
The sweepstakes – running until December 15, 2020 – is sponsored by Invoice Cloud, a provider of trusted, secure e-payments serving local governments and utilities nationwide. Escondido has used the Invoice Cloud platform since 2018 for online payments as well as pay-by-phone and pay-by-text options.
Shop the Block aims to draw customers to Chattanooga's Southside | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Since tourists make up a large portion of their customers, businesses on Chattanooga's Southside have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
To bring in more traffic, businesses on the 1400 block of Market Street, located across from the Chattanooga Choo Choo, are banding together to host the Southside Shop the Block contest running now through Oct. 31.
Shop the Block punch cards are available at any of the four businesses: Boxcar General Store, Chattanooga Whiskey, The Hot Chocolatier and Wildflower Tea. Customers can get their card punched after making a purchase at each store, and people who get a punch at all four businesses are entered into a drawing to win a basket of items valued at $140 from all of the participating businesses.
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GUEST COLUMN: Help is available for customers who need assistance with utility bills | Local
In the early days of the pandemic, Duke Energy took swift action to help customers knowing the financial burdens that would result for many people because of the health crisis.
We suspended electric service disconnections for unpaid bills. We also hit the pause button on charges for late payments and returned checks.
Thousands of families, businesses and others across South Carolina have directly benefited from our freeze on disconnections since it took effect more than six months ago. As we plan our return to standard billing and payment practices in October, we have expanded options for these customers and others so they can continue receiving safe and reliable service.
Amazon gives customers a way to immediately delete Alexa voice recordings — here’s how to
Privacy was front-and-center for Amazon at the company's big devices and services event this week .
The most noteworthy privacy-related announcement was a new feature for Alexa that lets users automatically and immediately delete their voice recordings. Amazon rolled out options last year to automatically delete recordings after three months or 18 months, but not immediately after Alexa processes a request.
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The company last year faced public backlash over human review of voice recordings from Alexa devices. It responded with a privacy setting that let users opt-out of human review — following similar announcements from Apple and Google — and sought to offer assurances about how those recordings were used. The tech giant considered a more extreme measure that would have opted users out of the practice by default, but decided against it.
GetLinked® Continues to Offer Additional Features, Allowing Customers the Freedom to Choose
When searching for financial software, businesses often peruse systems jam-packed with features they'll never use, forcing them to pay for software that simply goes to waste.
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Nikola Corporation's founder Trevor Milton purchased the original design for the company's flagship truck from a Croatia-based designer, the Financial Times reported https://on.ft.com/3mWv2s7 on Saturday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Nikola One, the company's flagship hydrogen-powered truck truck, is at the centre of a design patent infringements lawsuit that Nikola filed against Tesla Inc in 2018.
Contractor accused of taking over a million dollars from customers now under investigation
A local contractor accused of taking hundreds of thousands for home renovations not done is now under investigation.
Action 9 first exposed this company two months ago. Since then we've found homeowners claiming their losses could total more than a million dollars.
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The empty backyard is all Lemons has to show for the $11,000 she paid a contractor to rebuild her porch last year.
She's one of dozens of consumers who feel burned by Trusted Development Group in Oakland after paying large deposits for work not completed and many times, not even started.
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PG&E plans to cut power to 89,000 Northern California customers starting Sunday because of fire conditions https://t.co/WtRJB7OwXi LANow (from Los Angeles, CA) Sun Sep 27 03:00:00 +0000 2020
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