Before the Wake Forest Board of Commissioners Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587 May 19, 2020 Concerning: Public Hearing to receive public comment on the financing of Fiber Infrastructure Construction…
The John Locke Foundation is continuing to start important conversations in North Carolina. In April of this year, The Wilson Times published an opinion piece written by JLF’s Jon Sanders…
Interesting to see Davidson Mayor Rusty Knox weigh in on House Bill 514, which would allow suburban Charlotte cities to create their own charter schools: “This has almost become a…
CJ’s Barry Smith reports on the Taxpayer Protection Alliance’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ taxpayer-funded internet projects that have cost the public more than $2 billion. One North Carolina network makes the ‘Dirty…
MI-Connection, the cable and internet provider that Mooresville, Davidson and Cornelius bought back in 2007, continues to lose money. Per aShortChronicle: Based on numbers just confirmed from Town of Davidson…
And on the editorial page no less. And no, it’s not a positive op-ed: The North Carolina towns of Davidson and Mooresville have unwittingly made a foolproof case as to…
Not a surprise, of course. But proving yet again that government does not belong in the business of operating cable TV/broadband systems. And you got to love the operating losses…
Here’s an example of how residents “exercised their democratic rights to seek an alternative solution through their local governments,” as explained in the Winston-Salem Journal’s recent editorial on municipal broadband:…
A new Carolina Beat column features former Mecklenburg County Republican Rep. Ed McMahan’s thoughts about the bill designed to restrict municipal broadband services: The cities involved with MI-Connection, for example,…
Davidson town commissioners have passed a budget: Meanwhile, the town will help fund the MI-Connection subsidy by spending $804,179 from its reserves, known as its fund balance. That will reduce…
DavidsonNews.Net has the details but the upshot is this: the town of Davidson’s sad foray into CATV and broadband will cost each single-family home $206 and each multi-family home $104…
Local government-owned M-I Connection tried to spin a 9.4 increase in Q1 revenue — driven by about 1600 more voice accounts over Q1 2009 — as the news from its…