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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
City Council candidates debate at WU. The five candidates running for Webster Groves City Council came to Webster University's UC Sunnen Lounge March 30 to debate before the April 6 election. About 150 people attended the forum, the majority of whom were Webster Groves citizens. The budget deficit and future redevelopment plans were the most commonly raised issues. [The Journal]
9:14:55 PM 
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Two from Kevin T:-
PRESIDENT BUSH'S BROADBAND GOAL CONTRADICTS ADMINISTRATION
POLICIES
President Bush’s much-publicized goal of providing affordable high-speed
Internet access to all Americans by ensuring "plenty of choice" in
broadband service contradicts Administration policies that actually have
strengthened cable and phone monopolies which have led to higher prices and
less choice in broadband, Consumers Union and Consumer Federation of
America said today in a letter to the president. Given that 80 percent of
Americans today do not have broadband access, we applaud your declaration
of a progressive goal for the digital information age, but it will require
a 180-degree change from recent policies, said the letter, signed by Gene
Kimmelman, public policy director for Consumers Union, and Mark Cooper,
research director for Consumer Federation of America. Kimmelman and Cooper
noted that since the President took office, the cost of buying the services
that connect cable customers to high-speed Internet has skyrocketed a
package of cable modem and expanded basic cable programming has shot up
three times the rate of inflation. Also, a consumer who wants high-speed
service and their own Internet Service Provider must pay their cable
company $55 to $75 a month for that option. This trend is absolutely
contrary to the President’s goal of offering consumers ‘more choices’ in
high-speed Internet service that will ensure prices go down, Mr.
Kimmelman
said. We believe the Administration has moved away from giving consumers
more competitive choices, and instead supported or adopted policies that
have strengthened the hand of cable and phone monopolists, who together own
and control virtually all broadband connections. The letter from
Consumers
Union and Consumer Federation of America also asked the Administration to
support "a la carte" choice for video and Internet content over cable
lines; adopt a "non-discrimination" policy for broadband services to foster
an entrepreneurial environment; appeal the anti-consumer local phone
service decision by the D.C. District Court in USTA v. FCC; and pursue a
policy to ensure all Internet services are affordable and that Americans
are computer literate.
[SOURCE:
Consumers Union Press Release]
See letter
- Rep Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) introduced yesterday the Media Ownership
Reform Act of 2004 that would
void the FCC's new media ownership
rules;
- restore the Fairness Doctrine;
- limit a TV-station group to no more
than 35% household reach nationally; and
- bar any single entity from
owning more than 5% of AM and FM broadcast-radio stations nationally, along
with local-market limits.
The bill has no co-sponsors and about a
snowball's chance in [deleted due to new indecency rules].
Broadcasting & Cable
Multichannel
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(Markup mine.)
11:34:17 AM
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We're #n.
I think Brian Leiter should have left comments open on this post so people could lobby publicly in advance of him "post[ing] a few thoughts on the "hierarchy," as it were, in a bit, in light of the various moves."
There follows a long discourse aiming to analyze where Cornell ranks now. It's interesting for those inside baseball fans, and concludes
[B]ecause of this breadth, Cornell is producing interesting work across-the-board. Cornell's going to be one of the more interesting places to be in the next few years. [Thoughts Arguments and Rants]
7:10:42 AM
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