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Last week I asked readers to send questions in about PG&E charges. I'll be posting some of them here.

But in the meantime, readers might also be interested to know that three Merced City Council members want your questions about Wal-Mart.

Council members will be touring a Wal-Mart distribution center in Apple Valley next week. Wal-Mart wants to build a 1.2 million square-foot distribution center in southeast Merced.

Here's a list of the questions I've collected so far about PG&E's "departing load" charges now going out to MID customers.
I'll be answering some of them in a story this Saturday. If you have one to add to the list, post it in comments or e-mail me at lalbrecht@mercedsun-star.com.

1. Why am I being charged for these New Municipal Departing Load charges?

2. How is the amount of charges determined?

While shaking out a rug last night in my front yard, I saw Robert, a homeless guy photographer George MacDonald and I met a month or two back.

Robert was picking up extra bottles and cans from the recycling bins, his other part-time job besides working at an office.

Earlier in the day, he told me how a friend of his who lives on the street was nearing heat exhaustion, so much so that drinking beer didn't even sound appealing.