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Wie, RSS-Feed? Is mir jetzt irgendwie doch peinlich, Herr WVS und Herr Koch! Immerhin ist der Button jetzt da. Nach fast einem Jahr.
Morgaine - 14. Jun, 18:30
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Dienstag, 14. Juni 2005
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Dank an R. für diesen Tipp. Doch, er passt schon.
Wehe, es legt jemand die Füsse auf mein Armaturenbrett ... ;-)
"Das Letzte: Frauen, wehrt euch!
von Ines Zöttl
Wehe, es legt jemand die Füsse auf mein Armaturenbrett ... ;-)
"Das Letzte: Frauen, wehrt euch!
von Ines Zöttl
Morgaine - 14. Jun, 17:45
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Heuschrecke auf amerikanisch
"have been involved with this effort for several years now. We are attempting to have our city purchase the water utility, currently owned by the German conglomerate RWE AG. Our petition drive to place this imporant issue on the ballot was an enormous success.
Posted on Fri, Jun. 10, 2005 - Lexington Herald Leader
Pushing for a water vote
Citizens group presents petitions to council
By Michelle Ku
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
Hoping to keep condemnation of Kentucky American Water alive, a citizens group last night submitted a stack of petitions bearing more than 26,000 signatures directing the city to purchase the water utility.
Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins said his office has already checked 22,500 of the signatures on the petition by Let Us Vote Lexington and determined that 20,515 of them were valid.
LUV needed to gather 18,315 signatures of registered voters to place the petition on the ballot for residents to decide the long-running and controversial condemnation question.
"These petitions clearly represent the will of thousands of citizens," said Gloria Singletary, co-chair of LUV, as she presented the petitions to the Urban County Council.
In essence, the petition directs the city to purchase Kentucky American, by eminent domain if necessary, unless the price is so high that revenues from water bills won't pay for it. The petition drive started in late January, after the council switched from a 9-6 majority in favor of condemnation to a 9-6 majority against.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/11863500.htm
Posted on Fri, Jun. 10, 2005 - Lexington Herald Leader
Pushing for a water vote
Citizens group presents petitions to council
By Michelle Ku
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
Hoping to keep condemnation of Kentucky American Water alive, a citizens group last night submitted a stack of petitions bearing more than 26,000 signatures directing the city to purchase the water utility.
Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins said his office has already checked 22,500 of the signatures on the petition by Let Us Vote Lexington and determined that 20,515 of them were valid.
LUV needed to gather 18,315 signatures of registered voters to place the petition on the ballot for residents to decide the long-running and controversial condemnation question.
"These petitions clearly represent the will of thousands of citizens," said Gloria Singletary, co-chair of LUV, as she presented the petitions to the Urban County Council.
In essence, the petition directs the city to purchase Kentucky American, by eminent domain if necessary, unless the price is so high that revenues from water bills won't pay for it. The petition drive started in late January, after the council switched from a 9-6 majority in favor of condemnation to a 9-6 majority against.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/11863500.htm
Morgaine - 14. Jun, 17:27
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"because we all use the Internet"
(just American business?)
A bill just introduced in Congress would take away the right of cities and towns across the country to provide citizens with universal, low-cost Internet access.
Giant cable and telephone companies don't want any competition -- which might actually force them to offer lower prices, higher speeds and service to rural and urban areas.
U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) -- a former telephone company
executive -- has introduced a bill (HR 2726) that would let cable and telecom companies shut down municipal and community efforts to offer broadband services.
You can stop this outrageous bill. Send a message to your
representative now.
Next, forward this message to everyone you know ...
No less than the future of all communications is at stake. In a few
years, television, telephone, radio and the Web will be accessed
through a high-speed internet connection. Low-cost alternatives to
telephone (DSL) and cable monopolies are emerging across the country, as cities, towns, nonprofits and community groups build low-cost "Community Internet" and municipal broadband systems.
Companies like SBC, Verizon and Comcast have been introducing laws state by state that would prohibit municipal broadband, undercut local control and prevent competition. But we've been fighting back -- and winning.
An alliance of public interest groups, local officials, high-tech
innovators and organized citizens have defeated anti-municipal
broadband measures in nine of the 13 states where they've been
introduced this year.
What the industry couldn't pass in the states, they're trying to push through in Washington. Sessions' bill -- the "Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act" (an Orwellian title if there ever was one) -- would prevent state and local governments from providing "any telecommunications service, information service or cable service" anywhere a corporation offers a similar service.
Congressman Sessions worked for telephone giant SBC for 16 years, and his wife currently serves as a director of Cingular Wireless, an SBC subsidiary. SBC and its employees have been Sessions' second-biggest career patron, pouring more than $75,000 into his campaign coffers.
We can stop this legislation and send a clear message to Congress that local communities -- not the giant telephone and cable companies --should determine their own communications needs. But you must act now.
Please send a letter opposing HR 2726 -- and forward this message to everyone you know, asking them to do the same.
Onward,
Josh Silver
Executive Director
Free Press
http://www.freepress.net
A bill just introduced in Congress would take away the right of cities and towns across the country to provide citizens with universal, low-cost Internet access.
Giant cable and telephone companies don't want any competition -- which might actually force them to offer lower prices, higher speeds and service to rural and urban areas.
U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) -- a former telephone company
executive -- has introduced a bill (HR 2726) that would let cable and telecom companies shut down municipal and community efforts to offer broadband services.
You can stop this outrageous bill. Send a message to your
representative now.
Next, forward this message to everyone you know ...
No less than the future of all communications is at stake. In a few
years, television, telephone, radio and the Web will be accessed
through a high-speed internet connection. Low-cost alternatives to
telephone (DSL) and cable monopolies are emerging across the country, as cities, towns, nonprofits and community groups build low-cost "Community Internet" and municipal broadband systems.
Companies like SBC, Verizon and Comcast have been introducing laws state by state that would prohibit municipal broadband, undercut local control and prevent competition. But we've been fighting back -- and winning.
An alliance of public interest groups, local officials, high-tech
innovators and organized citizens have defeated anti-municipal
broadband measures in nine of the 13 states where they've been
introduced this year.
What the industry couldn't pass in the states, they're trying to push through in Washington. Sessions' bill -- the "Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act" (an Orwellian title if there ever was one) -- would prevent state and local governments from providing "any telecommunications service, information service or cable service" anywhere a corporation offers a similar service.
Congressman Sessions worked for telephone giant SBC for 16 years, and his wife currently serves as a director of Cingular Wireless, an SBC subsidiary. SBC and its employees have been Sessions' second-biggest career patron, pouring more than $75,000 into his campaign coffers.
We can stop this legislation and send a clear message to Congress that local communities -- not the giant telephone and cable companies --should determine their own communications needs. But you must act now.
Please send a letter opposing HR 2726 -- and forward this message to everyone you know, asking them to do the same.
Onward,
Josh Silver
Executive Director
Free Press
http://www.freepress.net
Morgaine - 14. Jun, 13:09
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