[sllug-members]: Re: UTOPIA education sllug-members Digest, Vol 41, Issue 12

[Steve Hildebrand]

>It's difficult to get things going out there in West Jordan.  I've 
>presented to the City Council and had many conversations with Mayor 
>Newton since February 07.

I was talking with Rob Bennett for a while, until he lost his seat in the election.  He seemed cautious but interested, although he blanched at the financial issues.  I didn't get responses from anyone else, and Mayor Newton appears to be a staunch privatization supporter.  UTOPIA should stand or fall on its own, as far as he is concerned.  I figured pointing out the taxpayer outlay for Bell and AT&T wouldn't help.  :)

>Since then I've been posting on my blog what's going on with my 
>situation with Concast and bringing fiber to our awesome city.  I've 
>also been working with several other's here in the city plus harassing 
our Politicians in the State Capital.    Senator Stephenson and Rep. 
Craig Frank aren't very easy to get along with to say the least though
 I 
truely appreciated Rep. Frank in taking an hour of his valuable time in
 
speaking with me one on one about Utopia.  After only a few minutes 
Senator Stephenson had enough of me and got outta there  :-)

>We could use more people calling the West Jordan City Council about 
>this.  Hell, at least do a
damn feasibility study rather than ignoring it.

I am pretty sure it was a link from Slashdot that led me to that blog, and shortly thereafter, I started pestering the West Jordan City Council about UTOPIA.  So here we are, full circle.  :)

>I've already written a quick response to the article and sent it along 
>to the trib.  Very disappointing to see them stoop to this new level of
 
>reporting.  I wonder who they had to grease to get that trash in print.

I was reading one the other day, and there are a number of positive responses in the online responses already.  Yellow journalism may not prevail after all.

>Goes to show you, when you are a monopoly (or even a duopoly), you can 
>provide products and services which benefit the company and NOT the 
>consumer.

Competition is a good deal for everyone, but it is a hard sell for the end user.







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