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Wi-Fi is another wild Carty dream
PRI in the News
By: Jim Boehm
6.3.2007
Toledo Blade (OH), June 3, 2007
Never lacking for another black hole to throw our tax dollars into, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner now wants to Wi-Fi Toledo with a municipal communications network. Steven Titch, in his May article in Infotech & Telecom News, called municipal broadband "financial disasters." He explained how they are oversold and of the 52 broadband systems how they have sucked up more than $840 million of taxpayer money. He went on to explain that after these systems are installed, politicians, never wanting to admit their mistakes, continue the hemorrhaging of tax dollars through creative accounting. In a Pacific Research Institute article, "The Disaster of Municipal Communications Networks," Sonia Arrison, Dr. Ronald Rizzuto, and Vince Vasquez told how 77 percent of the time even with the power of the government purse municipal networks fail. They go on to tell how these muni-networks demand constant reinvestment. Hopefully someone will convince the mayor to trash this idea and stop his forays into the private sector. Unfortunately, this is just one more ludicrous idea and is one more reason why the city of Toledo should return to a city manager form of government. Not only have city-manager governments been proven to be more effective and efficient, but also it would put a barrier between mayors like Carty with their wild, expensive dreams and the cash drawer. Jim Boehm Drummond Road
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