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Paterno Every place is different whether town or country, but there’s something about waiting for a meeting to start in many countries that always feels the same. My presentation in Paterno before the members of La Citta civic movement and many others who had been invited was scheduled for 7 pm. I had been warned [...] New Orleans The combined meetings and negotiations with Comcast representatives about their “internet essentials” program to provide low cost access and computers to lower income families seems to have finally provoked the company into putting out some numbers on their performance. That’s the good news. Reading the numbers is the bad news.
New Orleans When a delegation of members from ACTION United showed up with baloney sandwiches at the Pittsburgh City Council meeting, the Council asked them to address the body and expressed concern with them about the difficulty that low income families are having making Comcast’s promises of greater access to the Internet a reality. The [...] New Orleans Another day, another dollar in Comcast land where it turns out in their view of the world, no promises need be kept, customers should pay and not be heard, government is only for them, not for the people, and if they say it’s good, then, damn, it must be good: Comcast-in-wonderland! In Shreveport as [...] New Orleans There’s nothing like watching a neighborhood civic association meeting to make one blush at having ever critiqued the sometimes maddening consensus process of the Occupy movement. Having watched several Occupy meetings weather the arduous process of coming to consensus, I had almost concluded that despite the way the process has defined much about the [...] New Orleans The FCC made a big, big deal a few weeks ago about the fact that Cox Cable and Time-Warner Cable had both voluntarily agreed to provide low cost internet access to low income families. The basics were $9.95 per month and a $150 refurbished computer. The agreement they were trumpeting was based on [...] New Orleans We love having the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Another one is coming in a year – 2013! I read with interest a story in the Times about Indianapolis this year with an alluring headline, “Unexpected Benefits from a Super Bowl Bid.” On first reading I lapped up the article’s spin on the [...] |
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