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Messenger: Missouri regulator cheers for utilities she’s meant to monitor. Wait, what?
JEFFERSON CITY — Jeanette Mott-Oxford sat in the back row of a House hearing room fidgeting as she awaited debate on bills that would raise electric rates in Missouri. Mott-Oxford, a 70-year-old former state representative from St. Louis, has long …