Re: [Nolug] BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet

Last I thought, Blanco nixed the idea of making a casino zone in
downtown NO. I have a feeling most you ask are glad she did. At least
that is one thing in her favor. The schools are another issue, but
anybody running the NO public schools is better than what was running
them before.

Brett

On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:18:32 -0500, "Mark A. Hershberger"
<mah@everybody.org> said:
> "John Souvestre" <johns@sstar.com> writes:
>
> > > New Orleans right now is in no place to be a fair, competitive market.
> >
> > And the way to fix this is to drive competitive business out of the market?
> >
> > What other areas is the city going to compete in? How about just giving away
> > basic services like water, power and phone service? Aren't those more
> > important than Internet access?
>
> I'm &#8220;safe&#8221; way up here in PA, but I've been following the situation
> there with some interest. Pardon the observations of an outsider.
>
> In fact, while the city may not have provided basic services, FEMA did
> buy paying for hotel rooms. To a certain extent, that's a good thing,
> but I've also been reading about businesses that couldn't get back
> into gear simply because their workers were living in a hotel room and
> didn't /have/ to return to NOLA yet.
>
> Then there's the issue of schools, etc.
>
> Anyway, ya'll have got a rough road ahead. Government cannibalizing
> business and expanding bloodsuckers (i.e. gambling) isn't gonna help.
>
> Mark.
>
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