Rural utilities enter cable and Internet markets nationwide
In towns like Glasgow Kentucky nearly half of residents have high speed Internet via local utilities offering bundled TV. Public power and water utilities expand into cable and Internet, arguing rural need and lower costs, while incumbents and regulators push back.
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Washington
Glasgow
Bill Bates
United States Telecom Association
America
Iowa
Patti Cale
Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities
American Public Power Association
Arkansas
Texas
Florida
Association
Federal Communications Commission
Jane Dunn Cirrincione
Group presses study on racial profiling of motorists
National Urban League President Hugh B. Price urged the Bush administration to form a panel to study racial profiling and discriminatory court practices against blacks. He called for debate on reparations for slavery and criticized current justice system bias while noting data gathering and training steps already underway.
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Washington
Bush
United States
National Urban League
Hugh B. Price
Price
Vieques Residents Back End to Navy Bombing in Referendum
In Vieques Puerto Rico residents voted 68 percent to end Navy bombing and withdraw the Atlantic range with 30 percent supporting ongoing training with inert munitions. The nonbinding result aims to influence Washington though the Navy plans to continue training and seek alternatives before 2003.
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Vieques
Puerto Rico
U.S. Navy
Washington
Atlantic
Electoral Commission
Bush
Lila M. Calderon
U.S
Calderon
Navy
Island
Poll finds children more spoiled now than in past
Time CNN poll of 1015 adults shows 80 percent believe children today are more spoiled than 10 to 15 years ago. Three-fourths say kids have fewer chores and 71 percent see too much advertising for games and toys.
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Time Magazine
CNN
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