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 * //Remember//** //Congress votes and FCC decides how to implement, which creates a complicated system.//

The current Democratic controlled of the House is by no mean clear yet. I am skeptical, but hopeful. We all aware how lobbyists in Washington affect even control the American way of politics. We need strong and well-organized net-roots to advocate for the public interest and local competition and fight for policies that will take into consideration the common good.

This is a crucial time for the future of our Internet, local cable franchising and community media. It is fundamental that we first educate ourselves and then the public, local authorities to change the regulations that will shape the future of our internet and telecommunications policy.

Just think about it.

=State & Local=

//**In Massachusetts, the newly elected governor, [|Deval Patrick] intends to rescue local community.**//

[|Telecoms to fight Patrick tax proposal]
Boston Globe, February 24, 2007 "Patrick said it made no sense that in some municipalities electric companies pay local taxes on wires and gear that are installed on the same telephone poles as telecom equipment. In communities where [|Verizon Communications] Inc. jointly owns poles with either [|NStar] or [|National Grid Group PLC], the electric company pays tax on its half of the pole, but Verizon doesn't. "It's a fundamental inequity, and we ought to change that," Patrick said at a public event Thursday." [|Boston Globe] February 24, 2007

[|Telecoms slash their property tax burden] Boston Globe, June 10, 2005

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