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PubliCola Comment of the Day Goes To…

News   September 30, 2009 at 6:23 pm Josh Feit

Stop laughing at tech as yuppie shit. We better get ourselves together.

PubliCola reader Kate Stetson wins today’s “Comment of the Day” for her serious business comment on Glenn Fleishman’s (TechNerd’s) story about broadband:

8. Kate Stetson says:

@6 I am a telecommuter for a tech company in San Jose, CA. The current highest speed Internet connection available in my S. Seattle neighborhood is only barely enough for me to send and recieve data necessary for my job. The providers in this area have no plans to improve speed. If my job requires the ability to move more data, I’ll have to live someplace else. Seattle is competing with cities all over the world and we are quickly falling behind in this important and necessary part of infrastructure.

09/30/2009 AT 6:08 PM


  • http://gomezticator.livejournal.com/1522367.html Gomez

    This is one of many reasons I won’t live in the South end. They get the shaft from so many city services. It’s not fair, but until this is rectified, I can’t justify living there even if it’s cheaper.

  • http://gomezticator.livejournal.com/1522367.html Gomez

    This is one of many reasons I won’t live in the South end. They get the shaft from so many city services. It’s not fair, but until this is rectified, I can’t justify living there even if it’s cheaper.

  • Becky S.

    Gomez, broadband isn’t a city service. If it was, the people in the S. end would not be getting the shaft, so until it is, the situation won’t likely be rectified.

    Social equity is another reason we should support publicly owned fiber-optic broadband.

  • Becky S.

    Gomez, broadband isn’t a city service. If it was, the people in the S. end would not be getting the shaft, so until it is, the situation won’t likely be rectified.

    Social equity is another reason we should support publicly owned fiber-optic broadband.

  • Broad minded

    Props to McGinn for having the policy depth to pick up this issue.

    Mallahan …. the no issue candidate.

    McGinn: transportation, land use, sidewalks, neigborhoods, parks, preventing bad roads, broadband / eco development, and throwing the spotlight on schools, too.

    Seems like McGinn is the broad minded multi-issue candidate.

  • http://gomezticator.livejournal.com/1522367.html Gomez

    Technically true Becky, though the tech used to transport those services is a civic enterprise, so ultimately its accessibility is a matter of the City.

  • http://gomezticator.livejournal.com/1522367.html Gomez

    Technically true Becky, though the tech used to transport those services is a civic enterprise, so ultimately its accessibility is a matter of the City.

  • Broad minded

    Props to McGinn for having the policy depth to pick up this issue.

    Mallahan …. the no issue candidate.

    McGinn: transportation, land use, sidewalks, neigborhoods, parks, preventing bad roads, broadband / eco development, and throwing the spotlight on schools, too.

    Seems like McGinn is the broad minded multi-issue candidate.