KIUC collections have been paused in this paper's Lowell file while the cooperative printed restore percentages. [1] Saturday's 76 percent still leaves the North Shore 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 Saturday copy.

Paused collections are paused collections. A 76-percent restore does not restart a billing cycle.
No resumed-billing notice is in Saturday's cooperative copy, so paused remains the collections word.
This edition will not invent forgiven bills to fill a quiet Saturday.
Saturday is not a billing restart.
Collections remain paused, not forgiven and not restarted.

Paused remains the only honest word.
-- THEO KAPLAN, San Francisco