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Dan Riedinger writes on consumer and cooperative affairs for the Na- tional Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Arlington, Va.-based service arm of the nation’s 900-plus FRQVXPHU RZQHG QRW IRU SUR¿W HOHF- tric cooperatives.


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