Pittsburgh I can remember driving into Pittsburgh decades ago when the belching smoke of steel mills was the clouds in the gray and overcast sky. Having the ACORN Canada staff in Pittsburgh offered an opportunity these days to not only see real clouds, but to also have them see something more than the great restaurant …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Philly and Seattle Setting New Franchise Standards for Comcast
Pittsburgh Philadelphia and Seattle City Councils, along with the community-based pressure pushing them, are proving that there is still a lot of leverage and some bite past the bark in using cable franchise renewal agreements to wrest concessions from the arrogant, monopolistic Comcast. We have been tussling with Comcast for years now over their half-hearted …
Want Privacy? Move to Europe
Pittsburgh New internet privacy rules are emerging in Europe with the announcement that there will be one set of rules governing internet data for all 28 countries in the European Union. US companies are already crying like stuck pigs even though the rules do not take full effect for another two years and still have …