KIUC collections have been paused in this paper's Lowell file while the cooperative printed restore percentages. [1] Friday's 73 percent still leaves more than 9,000 dark and does not restart billing. [2] Paused is not forgiven. A dark north is not a closed account. Print paused. Do not print forgiven. No member notice of resumed billing is in Friday copy.

Paused collections are paused collections. A 73-percent restore does not restart a billing cycle.
No resumed-billing notice is in Friday's cooperative copy, so paused remains the collections word.
Forgiven bills stay off the page until an edition owns a write-off.
Friday is not a billing restart.
Collections remain paused, not forgiven and not restarted.

Political outages outlast electrical ones; cooperatives know it. Friday's patience is strategy.
A cooperative that bills the dark invites a different kind of outage: political. Pauses cost cash flow while crews earn overtime. Friday's math favors patience over revenue.

Strategic patience costs cash; Friday pays it. Paid patience holds. Revenue waits on meters.

Revenue waits on meters; Friday pauses billing the dark. Overtime crews still work. Patience is the co-op's math.

A co-op that bills the dark invites a political outage. Friday's math favors patience. Meters stay dark.

KIUC paused collections while 9,000 meters stay dark. Overtime crews still work. Friday's cash-flow hit is the price of not billing the dark.

Friday pauses billing the dark. Revenue waits on meters. Patience is the co-op's math.

Friday pauses billing the dark. Revenue waits on meters. 9,000 dark meters stay unbilled.

Friday pauses billing the dark. Revenue waits on meters. 9,000 dark meters stay unbilled.

-- THEO KAPLAN, San Francisco