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In the short term, the focus should be on improving the regional bus service, which is abysmal at best. Triangle Transit shouldn't have anything to do with any rail conversations until it can streamline and use more common sense with bus service. CAT, DATA, and CH transit have far superior operations and handle a greater volume of riders.
To the writers and readers of this article…I implore you to do some research on what really happened in Caldwell County when Google moved in. There is a good reason there is a lawsuit.
My Father was living in Lenoir when Google came to Caldwell County. The county wooed Google with loads of money to put the data farm in Lenoir. Where did this Money come from???? Property taxes went up 25% to pay for it. So much for do no evil, Google!!!!!!
Google should be begging / paying us to come here! Please take a look at the bigger picture and not just the faster internet carrot Google is dangling. From Google’s FAQ: "We're --- hoping to identify interested communities that will work with us to achieve this goal.” Now, look at Google’s past M.O. for an apt translation of this: Find a county, city, town to give them all the tax breaks and other services (basically foot the bills for them to get set up). Then once they have the service set up they can charge what they want. It gets better still for Google as they don’t really have an investment in it. Clever Google!
Yes , internet speeds closer to what you can get in other areas of the world would be great and I don’t expect it to be free, but as a Chapel Hill homeowner and tax payer, I don’t want my taxes used to subsidize a filthy rich company like Google either.
Per your article….“The details of the deal remain vague”….hmmm wonder why? Let’s get the details of this “deal” before we start all these pro-Google high speed internet parades.
Google’s "Don't Be Evil" motto is a joke!
There are a number of resources available in the area, GlutenFreeRaleigh being one of my favorites. While it can be a full-time job to do all the research involved with finding allergen-friendly food, blogs and other free resources can help tremendously.
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Google already control the way we find content on the Internet. Do you realy want them to control your access to it also?
Plow down your own fiber and stay independent. Look upon fiber networks, the same way as on public roads. What would you say if you had to pay a fee to leave your own front porch to use the public road?
Add Gal Costa to Duke's Brazil music legend column. Costa was here, in Reynolds Theater, this fall. Her 1969 albums "Gal" & "Gal Costa" represent, to my taste, the delicious pinnacle of Tropicália.
What we really need is for one of these fine presenting organizations to buck up & book Tom Zé.
She agreed to those terms when she joined, and has been enjoying the benefits of membership since then. Now, when the organization exercises their rights under the agreement, she's suddenly unhappy with the situation? At what point is she responsible for the consequences of her own decisions? If she's not happy with it, she should change careers, establish a competing MLS, or change the group's policies. (Which she appears to be doing, since she got elected to her local board. Good for her.)
Regardless, slanting this as a flexing of corporate power that will get worse because of Citizens United is pretty preposterous. This is a group of citizens being politically active on a subject they care about. Mr. Geary seems to believe this is a bad thing, but I welcome it. We need more citizen's groups getting involved and making themselves heard.
RaleighRob,
Not that long ago, a decade maybe, I might have agreed with you. But no more. The internet and a growing shift to an information economy, are making physical collocation less and less a necessity. I work on a daily basis with people from as far apart as Western Canada and Brno in the Czech Republic and I do it from my office in the basement of my house. Granted, that's probably a bit extreme, but it's certainly a trend--a lot of the people I work with throughout Europe and North and South America work from their homes too.
As to "cultural wasteland devoid of any identity," that likely reflects your biases more than it does reality--it's sounds a bit like Frank Sinatra lamenting those "little town blues" in an old song. If you like cities, cool. De gustibus non est disputandum. But that doesn't mean the rest of us have to agree. I've spent lots of time in a lot of the world's major cities and, with maybe one exception, seen nothing I'd go out of my way to see again.
And as to "unsustainable suburban sprawl," much of the point of the original article concerned how to "make cities once again a place not just for people to work but for families to live." (My emphasis.) I.e., it's cities that are proving to be unsustainable, and that's been true for decades, and much of what Poticha had to say concerned ways to resuscitate dying cities.
There are city people and there are non-city people. Frankly, I don't like cities. You apparently don't like suburbs. How about this: You live in, and pay the taxes of, the environment you prefer, and I'll do the same in my environment. We really don't need to argue about it--unless you, as the mayor of Raleigh keeps trying to do, decide it's okay to try to raid my wallet (for, for example, the "light rail" he keeps proposing, and keeps proposing the suburbs be taxed to build) to resuscitate your city.
That sounds like a terrible ... wait, isn't that exactly how the system should work? Is Mr. Geary suggesting that we should ban groups that are similarly organized, such as the ACLU and Moveon.org, from being politically active?
Fortunately, the Supreme Court recognizes that the First Amendment applies to everyone, not just the people you agree with or groups that are organized in a certain way. That's what Citizens United was all about.
Every year, the cost of offering broadband goes down, but Time-Warner prices stay the same. Sounds like they could offer lower prices but they just don't want to. I guess we know why they were pushing that bill last year - they don't want to kill the cash cow if municipalities come in and offer broadband at the real cost - even factoring in what are probably more generous benefits for municipal employees.


