Boulder Chamber Supports Ballot Measure to Restore Local Authority

Date: 9 Sep 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The Boulder Chamber of Commerce has come out in favor of ballot measure 2C, which would restore the City of Boulder’s authority to provide telecommunications services to its residents. From the Chamber’s website: City of Boulder 2014 Ballot Measure 2C – Affirming the City’s Right to Provide Telecommunication Services Colorado State Bill 152 precludes cities from … Read More

Walter Wuthmann

Date: 4 Sep 2014 | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Walter Wuthmann assists with writing and research for the Community-Scaled Economy Initiative in ILSR’s Portland, Maine, office. He focuses on analyzing the climate impact of large retail operations. Walter grew up in Northern California, and came to Portland by way of Bowdoin College. While in school, he transformed a nebulous passion for books and the great … Read More

Olivia LaVecchia

Date: 4 Sep 2014 | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Olivia LaVecchia is a researcher with ILSR’s Community-Scaled Economy Initiative, where her work focuses on building awareness and support for public policy tools that support locally owned businesses and that check concentrated economic power.
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SHLB Coalition Offering October Symposium on Anchor Institution Broadband Deployment

Date: 4 Sep 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

On October 2nd in Washington, D.C., the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB) will be hosting a symposium on “School-Library Partnerships and Other Anchor Institution Broadband Strategies.” Speakers will include FCC representatives, Obama Administration officials, and service providers such as One Community, among others.  The SHLB Coalition is a group of public, nonprofit, and commercial … Read More

Calls Grow for Community Network in Syracuse

Date: 3 Sep 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Last week, we noted some comments made by Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner indicating her interest in a municipal broadband network and her promise to develop a plan for how to build it. Now it appears others in Syracuse are picking up her refrain.  Two columns appearing recently in the Syracuse Post-Standard offered support for Miner’s idea: … Read More

Ellensburg Considers Muni Fiber Network Expansion

Date: 2 Sep 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Last year, we covered this central Washington city’s first foray into publicly owned fiber optics. The local incumbent, Charter Communications, began charging the city $10,000 per month for services it had been providing for free for a decade as part of its franchise agreement. Ellensburg officials did some quick math and realized that they could save … Read More

Austin, Minnesota Releases Fiber Network Feasibility Study Results

Date: 28 Aug 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Austin has been thinking about getting a gig for a while now. The city of 25,000 near Minnesota’s southern border had campaigned to be picked for the initial Google Fiber deployment, but was disappointed when Google selected Kansas City instead in 2011. As with some other cities around the country, however, the high profile Google competition … Read More

Rural Broadband Funding Webinar

Date: 27 Aug 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The FCC has made a $100 million fund available to organizations seeking to bring advanced telecommunications to rural America. The National Rural Assembly is hosting a national webinar to explain the criteria and application process. If you or your organization have a stake in expanding broadband in rural areas, you may want to consider this resource. … Read More

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