Muni Broadband Pre-emption More Partisan at Federal Than State Level
North Carolina and Tennessee are most likely to be the states where petitions could become a campaign issue because their laws are under FCC scrutiny, but there's not evidence it's a significant issue in state campaigns, said Bartlett Cleland.
The Worst U.S. Presidents: How Does Obama Stack Up?
A July Quinnipiac poll asked the public who has been the worst president since 1945. The big winner was President Barack Obama, with 33 percent. It’s easy to see why if we compare him to some of the other men who often make the worst-presidents list.
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IPI President Tom Giovanetti urged the FCC to reject the municipal broadband petitions filed by the Electric Power Board in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the city of Wilson, North Carolina.
IPI Urges FCC to Stay Within Its Bounds, Let Private Sector Work
The FCC should stay within its bounds and let the private sector work, said IPI in comments recently filed regarding the Comcast and Time Warner Cable merger review, and additionally in regard to two U.S. cities calling upon the FCC to overturn state laws regulating municipal broadband networks.
Sales Tax Plan the Death of Many Online Shops?
Bartlett Cleland calls it "The horribly Ill-Named Marketplace Fairness Act."
Obama's Honor-nomics
President Obama’s complete inability to pass liberal legislation that actually works—or now to pass any legislation at all—has driven him to rely on the honor system in the hope that people will do the right thing in several policy arenas.
IPI's Giovanetti & BSEEC'S Ireland Headline Debate on Denton, TX Frac Ban
Tom Giovanetti, head of The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) will be participating in a debate on the controversial proposed ban on hydraulic fracturing in the city of Denton, Texas.
No Relief Amid Many Proceedings as Muni Broadband Comment Extension Denied
No relief is coming to communications attorneys who say they've been working longer hours and during vacations and have had to back off on weighing in on some FCC issues because of the torrent of proceedings there.
What's Up With Health Insurance Premiums -- Besides Politics?
Multiple factors, both health care-related and political, are affecting premium increases. Some of those variables are pushing premiums up and others down.
It's Time to Update Lagging U.S. Energy Infrastructure
The United States recently passed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s top energy producer. But our nation’s infrastructure for transporting, storing and delivering energy hasn’t kept up with production.
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