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Relative Energy Efficiency of Residential Building Energy Codes [Chart] 26 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
How efficient are buildings in your community? That depends a lot on the building code, which states (and sometimes cities) can use to set minimum standards for energy efficiency. The U.S. DOE has a...
Jacksonville Discovers Savings and Faster Connectivity 26 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
It is no secret to our readers that communities throughout the country have transitioned from leasing services from big corporations to building their own fiber networks to save public dollars. Some c...
Stacy Mitchell Talks Walmart & Challenging Corporate Power on WNUR’s This Is Hell! 26 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
In this 30-minute interview on “This Is Hell!”, voted Chicago’s best talk radio show, ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell talks about how Walmart is undermining the American economy and why being more engaged citiz...
Roosevelt Institute Examines Comcast’s Internet Essentials 23 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
In 2011, Comcast commenced its Internet Essentials program with great fanfare from then FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. We looked at the program in detail and described Comcast's decision to withhold...
Longmont Friends of Fiber Rallies Supporters, Preps for Referendum Fight 22 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
Longmont's City Council and municipal power and communications utility are getting serious about bringing fiber to the people. We reported earlier this month about the decision to allow voters to deci...
Walmart’s Latest “Buy America” Sham 21 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
Almost 30 years ago, as the U.S. was bleeding jobs, Walmart launched a “Buy America” program and started hanging “Made in America” signs in its 750 stores. It was a marketing success, cementing the r...
Governments Should Focus on Infrastructure Despite False Statistics Peddled by NY Times and Others 21 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
Having just read the New York Times story "Most of U.S. is Wired, but Millions Aren't Plugged In," I was reminded that even the top mainstream telecom journalists really have little understanding of w...
The Results Are In: On the Death Penalty, Alabama is the Worst of the (Just About) Worst 21 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
For several decades the United States stood alone among industrialized country in still allowing criminals to be put to death. In the last 20 years, as more and more nations have abandoned the death...
Spanish Forks Discusses Stunning Success – Community Broadband Bits Podcast #60 21 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
The Spanish Fork Community Fiber Network (SFCN) is an incredibly successful HFC cable network in Utah. It delivers television, telephone, and Internet access at incredibly low rates to most of the com...
Television Consumer Freedom Act Promises More Choices 19 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
On August 14th, Christopher Mitchell and I visited Senator Amy Kobuchar's office in Minneapolis. We arranged the meeting in coordination with Free Press and the Media Action Grassroots Network to talk...
