[DC LoCo] PCWorld blog post - municipal fiber broadband in Chattanooga

[Ken Stailey]

When employment goes down governments simultaneously lose income tax and sales tax revenue.  The US Federal government can create money but not state or district ones.

The least-obfuscated indication of unemployment is the number of people receiving food stamps.

<< Bloomberg - Jan 6 - The number of Americans receiving food stamps dropped to 46.225 
million in October as the labor market improved and disaster assistance 
ended in East Coast states, the government said.

The number fell 0.1 percent from 46.268 million in September, the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in an e-mail. Participation 
was 7 percent higher than a year earlier. >> -- http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2012/jan/06/food-stamp-use-drops-us/?news-national 



________________________________
 From: N.C. Weber <ncweber00 at earthlink.net>
To: ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: [DC LoCo] PCWorld blog post - municipal fiber broadband in Chattanooga
 

Either politics, money, or both.  I vote both.

- N.C. Weber Curator of the Afrodiseum http://www.afrodiseum.com
On 01/05/2012 11:42 AM, Phil Shapiro wrote: 
 
>Hi ubuntistas,
>
>   For those who might be interested, here's a new blog post I
        wrote about Chattanooga's municipal fiber broadband.  
>
>http://tinyurl.com/6t9mv7g
>
>     I recall hearing last week that Verizon will no longer be
        expanding their FIOS network, so patient DC residents and
>businesses will never see Verizon FIOS.  Municipal broadband --
        with or without fixed wireless --
>might be the only way to escape the clenches of monopoly telcos
        in DC.
>
>     A good question to be asking ourselves is: If Chattanooga
        can set up municipal broadband service, what's stopping DC from
        doing it?
>
>            Phil
>
>In my follow-up blog posts about Chattanooga I'm hoping to cover
        some of the FOSS community initiatives in that town. There's
        some real interesting messages being posted to the Chugalug
        email list.   http://www.chugalug.org/
>
>
>
>-- 
>
>Phil Shapiro, pshapiro at his.com
>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html
>http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro
>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html
>
>"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates
>"Learning happens thru gentleness."
>
>
>
>
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