There’s finally a Legislative Reference Service bill analysis posted for Senate Bill 117, AT&T’s bill to eliminate local cable franchising in Ohio.
I’d like to call everyone’s attention to the following point:
The bill substitutes a state-issued “Video Service Authorization”, or “VSA”, for local cable TV franchises. The LRS analysis says in paragraph four:
a VSA confers on [...]
The gap between natural gas rates charged by Dominion East Ohio and rates charged by the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council will be slightly smaller next month, but our municipal aggregator’s bills will still be 11% higher.
Wednesday’s month-end settlement price on the New York Mercantile Exchange, for gas to be delivered in April, was $7.674 [...]
Last month Nortech and Cleveland State’s College of Urban Affairs released a “baseline report” on The High-Tech Sector in Northeast Ohio. The following is from the first page of the executive summary (this is all one paragraph, I’m separating the sentences for emphasis):
Total high-tech employment in NEO declined from 184,554 in 2000 to 160,819 in [...]
Walter and Haverfield is a Cleveland law firm that acts as counsel for a number of municipalities on cable and telecom matters, including Cleveland City Council. Here’s what they’re telling their clients about Senate Bill 117, the AT&T bill to end community cable franchising.
S.B. 117 poses a grave threat to municipal Home Rule authority, [...]
With a hat tip to Tim Ferris, here are the youtubed opening statements of Dennis Kucinich and Jim Rokakis at last week’s House Domestic Policy Oversight Subcommittee hearing on predatory lending. Kucinich chairs the Subcommittee.
(Dennis is apparently holding a series of hearings on “the state of urban America”. Tomorrow the Subcommittee has a hearing scheduled [...]
Cleveland City Council Public Utilities Committee meeting this Wednesday at 1:30:
Public Utilities Committee
Matt Zone, Chair
THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMITTEE WILL HAVE A DISCUSSION REGARDING THE CLEVELAND PUBLIC POWER FIVE YEAR BUSINESS PLAN, WHICH WAS RECENTLY COMPLETED. CPP COMMISSIONER IVAN HENDERSON AND PUBLIC UTILITIES DIRECTOR JULIUS CIACCIA WILL BRIEF THE COMMITTEE ON THE PLAN.
ALL MEMBERS OF COUNCIL [...]
The Dayton Daily News yesterday became the state’s first mainstream news outlet (that I can find on Google, anyway) to report on Senate Bill 117, the AT&T proposal to eliminate local cable franchising. See second DDN article here.
The articles have good comments from the Ohio Public Interest Research Group, Consumers Union, the Ohio Municipal League [...]
Here’s Secretary of State Brunner’s “Complaint for Summary Removal” of Robert Bennett and Sally Florkiewicz from the county Board of Elections. (pdf format)
The public hearing is set for 9 am on April 2 at Euclid City Hall. Chas Rich is rooting for Bennett and Florkiewicz to stand and fight so that the whole can [...]
AT&T’s web people have finished up the company’s “www.ohiotvchoice.com†campaign website for Senate Bill 117, the company’s bill to eliminate local video franchising authority. You know, the site that just said “Blah blah blah Blah blah blah” yesterday.
Apparently the astroturf coalition to support SB 117 is going to be called Ohio for TV [...]
I learned that White Hat Management never tells a lie…
(apology to Tom Paxton)