Jim Baller in Washington DC with the law firm of Baller Herbst keeps an excellent record of municipally-owned systems, regulations and issues about municipal ownership, and is involved in advising many of them. He has an abundance of information on the history from public power to public network operations. For more info see www.baller.com.
If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact me directly and I can put you in touch with Jim. Stay tuned, Brenda Brenda J. Trainor Frontier Trail, Inc. Box 935 Monrovia, CA 91017 323.229.2397 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Pioneering guidance for communications, technologies, and communities." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marnie Webb Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 4:58 PM To: 'The Digital Divide Network discussion group' Subject: RE: [DDN] Municipal broadband efforts in the US > Is anyone out there tracking the various state-level initiatives to either > block or encourage the deployment of broadband networks by local > governments? I know there are a handful of actions underway in Illinois, > Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts and Minnesota. Is there anyone > monitoring these developments in a central location? > [Marnie Webb] There's also an Omidyar Network group that covers this topic: http://www.omidyar.net/group/state-by-state/ One of the threads collects various resources: http://www.omidyar.net/group/state-by-state/news/2/ :mw Marnie Webb CompuMentor, www.compumentor.org TechSoup, www.techsoup.org Extension 337, ext337.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
