“…A high-speed broadband system
isn't a hot dog stand or boat-rental shop, a restaurant lease or a permit to
operate a taxicab or deliver cable TV… Those are contracts and franchises. This
is a piece of municipal infrastructure; it's more like the roads that cars and
buses use to carry people around town or the pipes that bring water to our houses
or the public schools that educate our kids or the emergency communications
system that takes the call when we dial 911…
This is part of Marin County’s
future, part of its economic development, part of how its residents will
participate in the political debate, part of how we will all learn and think
and talk to each other. This is the new public square, the new commons…”
----- based on editorial
by Tim Redmond, Editor, the Bay Guardian 7/11/07
