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The top three dogs at Avista Corp.
each raked in more than a million bucks last year, according to a story that appeared on the front page the other day. This then would be the moment where I would normally regale you with a string of smart-aleck jabs and one-liners about our rapacious power company. Sample: Q: Did you get your electricity bill the other day? A: Yep. Looks like light bulbs aren’t the only things getting screwed. My antics would be followed by: 1. A gigantic puckering sound from deep within the bowels of the Avista corporate offices. 2. An onslaught of Avista publicists who would dial The Spokesman-Review and demand that I be immediately dismembered or relocated to the Boise bureau —
Doug Clark
/Spokesman-Review.
DFO:
Avarice-sta? I like it better than The Utility Company Formerly Known As Washington Water Power.
Question: How do you get one of these gigs where you’re overpaid as an executive and have a golden parachute in reserve when you get booted from the company?