Ah, For the Days When...

...we were putting the spotlight on issues of national importance. You'll remember this winter we took aim at the threat that monopolistic telecommunications companies were making by throwing a billion dollars into a lobbying effort to strangle municipal broadband and wi-fi installations.

Now, the battle is moving from the statehouses to the nation's capital. The ploy is called pre-emption. That is, the telecoms want legislators to make it illegal for an underserved municipality to provide, under its utility powers, Internet access at high speeds.

Read this story at MSNBC.com: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8524609/site/newsweek/

Then tell us what you think. Who is being served here?

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Randy Smith, destinations@sbcglobal.net