On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Russell Senior wrote: > I have come to the conclusion that only by continuing to let our local > elected officials know how important it is will we generate the political > will necessary to make it happen. > > Follow http://www.portlandfiber.com/ and write to the Portland City Council.
I follow these threads with mild interest because they are strictly Portland-centric. There are a few of us who live east of 82nd Avenue who connect to the 'Net in our little hick towns (such as Gresham, Troutdale, Wood Village, Fairview, Corbett). We even have paved streets, sidewalks, and (as difficult as it is for Portland residents to believe) free parking and non-constant street construction/repair! Perhaps a successful strategy would be to make the effort county wide and bring in the fun politics of small town Oregon along with the that of the big city. That such can be done in the Oregon boondocks is evidenced by the successful efforts of Fred Ziari, a highly successful agricultural consultant who's expanded into several related areas such as large-scale underground water storage in the Umatilla basin and wide-area wireless access to the 'Net across most of eastern (at least the northern portion of eastern) Oregon. (There are still vast reaches of Radio Free Oregon as we confirmed week driving to Winnemucca via Madras, Prineville, Burns, Frenchglen, and Fields.) Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
