Gig City Sandy: Home of the $60 Gig

Date: 8 Jul 2015 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

    Located at the foot of Mount Hood in Oregon, Sandy’s municipally-owned full fiber network offers gigabit Internet service for under $60 to every resident in the city. Sandy is one of the few municipal FTTH networks that has been built without having a municipal electric department. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance released this short … Read More

Smart Conduit Policy in Sandy, Mount Vernon Reduces Network Cost

Date: 14 Jun 2013 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

More communities now embrace “dig once” policies to facilitate installation of future and current networks. The idea is to be mindful of trenching for transportation and utility projects and encourage collaboration between agencies. However, this is implemented in a variety of ways, some more effectively than others. By establishing requirements for conduit installation in development codes, … Read More

Even Superstorm Sandy Couldn’t Stop the Mailman

“Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds.” Bill Fletcher Jr. of the Institute for Policy Studies tells of how he was reminded of that covenant when in the middle of superstorm Sandy he saw a postal van traveling on his street. And he reminded us that we … Read More

Sandy and the Importance of Government

Date: 30 Oct 2012 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

If this election is a referendum on the benefit of government then superstorm Sandy should be Exhibit A for the affirmative. The government weather service, using data from government weather satellites delivered a remarkably accurate and sobering long range forecast that both catalyzed action and gave communities sufficient time to prepare. Those visually stunning maps you … Read More