{"id":491600,"date":"2010-03-31T00:24:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T04:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2010-03-31T00:24:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T04:24:42","slug":"minnesota-telecommunications-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491600","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Telecommunications Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilsr.org\/\">Chris Mitchell<\/a> from the Institute from Local Self Reliance, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/2010\/03\/16\/update-on-the-super-majority-bill\/\">following the Municipal Telecommunications Services bill<\/a>. The quick review is that the bill\u2019s original changes would make it easier for local governments to provide telecommunications services to the local community. As it stands, the bill requires interested local governments to allow residents to vote of whether or not the local government should provide telecommunications services \u2013 but it requires a super majority of 65 percent. So this year there was a proposal to eliminate the super majority and allow the idea to pass with a simple majority. However in session that proposal was change to include some other contingencies being placed on the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Chris promotes making it easier for local governments to provide telecommunications services; today the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/commentary\/89470602.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ\">Minneapolis Star Tribune features<\/a> another opinion. Tom Steward, investigative director for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfoundationofminnesota.com\/\">Freedom Foundation of Minnesota<\/a> promotes keeping barriers in place to reduce risk for tax payers\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The fact is that the telecommunications business is a risky venture for private providers and even more so for a local government &#8212; a far cry from providing water or sewer services, where there is no other option for consumers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3230\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3230\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3230\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3230\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3230\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3230\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3230\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3230\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3230\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3230\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blandinonbroadband.org&#038;blog=785113&#038;post=3230&#038;subd=blandinonbroadband&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Mitchell from the Institute from Local Self Reliance, has been following the Municipal Telecommunications Services bill. The quick review is that the bill\u2019s original changes would make it easier for local governments to provide telecommunications services to the local community. As it stands, the bill requires interested local governments to allow residents to vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}