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As someone with little knowledge of EFN, but experience living with
both PUDs and corporate utility companies, I want to urge us not to
lose perspective. The responsiveness and fiscal responsibility of
public utility districts are well known, in the various cities where
PUDs have been established. Compare this to the expensive, monolithic,
multi-national energy giants' utility service. Witness the saga of the last few years in Portland: Enron's ownership of PGE, and furious battle (PR spin, professional "grassroots" campaigning, etc.) to successfully defeat the ballot measure to create a PUD from the looted wreckage of same. It's sad. Eugene seems to have gone a much better route. Let's work with what we have, and be glad of it. Isn't the Internet a public utility by now anyway? :) -Max Personally, I think it's fabulous that a PUD would also run an ISP. Mike McCool crafted these words on 06/22/04 05:49: It's clear that you did know how deeply efn's problems lay--but your post contending that efn/opn is over, at least as it pertains to a not-for-profit/non profit entity dedicated to serving the local community--is less than accurate and smacks of "after me, the deluge."The new contract's straigtforward about EPUD's continuing commitment to OPN. And if you know how f'd up the books were, you must also know how close the business (efn) was to being seized by the IRS and the ODR for delinquent taxes. In that context, EPUD's buyout is the most amazingly hopeful thing that could have come out of this near disaster. We accepted their offer because they were committed to keeping OPN what is was. And they (WE) are still the only not-for-profit ISP game in town. On 21-Jun-04, T. Joseph Carter wrote: |
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