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Sandy panel: Privatize LIPA
The Long Island Power Authority should be shuttered and replaced with a private company after a disastrous performance in response to superstorm Sandy, a powerful oversight panel recommended Monday.
The Moreland Commission, empaneled by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to review utilities performance, said LIPA had a “fundamental dysfunctional management structure" that heavily hampered...