Who Are the Towns Benefitting From Free WiFi?

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Wednesday May 27, 2015 · 4:48 AM PDT

2015/05/27 · 04:48

What may have started as a single retailer WiFi hotspot offering idea is quickly expanding to encompass entire towns and cities. It seems that adding WiFi as part of the incentive for living and doing business in the locale, is in itself, an excellent marketing plan and the cost is offset with not only in the relocation of new businesses but an uptick in residents that want to live there.

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Friday April 03, 2015 · 10:34 AM PDT

2015/04/03 · 10:34

The first Earth Day in 1970 was a ground roots movement taken on by those of us that were watching the pollution destruction that was being created. We took the challenge, making a vow to take the first steps and participate as activists to do something about it. Although young and idealistic, we believed that if people were educated, they would help to alter the damage and as we embarked on that quest, we came face to face with the conservatives that denied. We were pitted against people who had financial investments in the toxins that were being dumped on the land and in the lakes and streams, and generations later, it is the same type of people that are denying that climate change is real

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Tuesday December 24, 2013 · 10:19 AM PST

2013/12/24 · 10:19

Each week that passes, it seems that the Pandora’s box that Edward Snowden unleashed back in June when he leaked secret NSA documents only grows bigger. The public perception of the NSA has never been lower, and rightfully so. Its list of targets, both domestic and foreign, continues to grow steadily, and it seems that nobody can communicate safely outside the tentacles of the NSA. Whether you’re an ally or foe, the Prime Minister of Israel or the German chancellor, let alone a simple citizen just looking for a bit of privacy, it’s clear that you’re not safe from the NSA

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Friday December 13, 2013 · 4:54 AM PST

2013/12/13 · 04:54

There is widespread agreement that the most important environmental issue that our generation faces is our changing climate. In fact, it might be the single most pressing issue that we must tackle in our lifetimes. Fortunately, Americans—at least most Americans—are waking up to the hard truth.

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Thursday December 05, 2013 · 9:59 AM PST

2013/12/05 · 09:59

With gun violence surging out of control in the United States, it’s time to finally get serious and take on the Republicans when it comes to passing sensible gun control policies. Last year, over 33,000 Americans died from gun-related causes, which comes out to nearly 100 people per day. In fact, according to research from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence , the number of Americans shot every year approaches six figures.

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Wednesday October 23, 2013 · 12:14 PM PDT

2013/10/23 · 12:14

Every time we turn around we hear that the Affordable Care Act is costing full time jobs. We hear its destroying the economy. We hear its bad for America. Its been three weeks since the launch of the exchanges and its a “train wreck” or a “debacle.” Well enough is enough and its time we spoke up back.

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Wednesday October 16, 2013 · 8:44 AM PDT

2013/10/16 · 08:44

The curtain is coming up now. The House is imploding and the Senate Republicans are scrambling to save face in light of their public relations nightmare they have to contend with running up into the 2014 elections. The Tea Party has entrenched itself in the mists of the party, driving it further right then ever before and leadership (such as Speaker Boehner, Senator McConnell and the like) have no idea on how to deal with the insurgence of the madness that is the Tea Party.

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Saturday October 12, 2013 · 8:15 AM PDT

2013/10/12 · 08:15

It has become more apparent with each passing day that the Republicans in the House of Representatives waged this shutdown war without an actual plan and were just going along with the Tea Party's demands. As we enter the twelfth day of this nightmare, now the big wigs over on that side of the aisle are scrambling (no doubt due to the god-awful poll numbers slapping them around) to find any way to get out from under the mess that they created.

Now, with public scrutiny at a near fever pitch, Speaker Boehner is caving. Well, in all honesty, maybe he should have thought of that before he shut the government down over the Affordable Care Act. And now, after all the grandstanding he and others like Senator Cruz (R-TX) and Senator Lee (R-UT) did about “fairness” over the law, Speaker Boehner is willing to break his blockade over some spending cuts? Really?

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Thursday October 10, 2013 · 9:12 AM PDT

2013/10/10 · 09:12

With the recent string of mass shooting taking place in just about every corner of the United States when will our country wake up and realize that guns are a big part of the problem? The NRA (National Rifle Association) has so entrenched their antiquated way for thinking upon many Americans that it may well be darn near impossible to convince them of the facts otherwise.

Sixty-one mass shootings since 1982. Just about all of those guns obtained “legally” in the states where they were used for horrific crimes. The United States is a country loaded with firearms and they are being used a lot of the time for dubious purposes. It never has nor will likely be, popular in the future to talk about more “gun control.” Politicians do their best to stay away from the incessant fear people have of the government taking away all their guns.

But Americans are by in large reasonable people. Poll after poll has shown that upwards of 90% of Americans have no qualms about a background check for every transaction that involves a gun, including the “gun show” loophole, which is “gun collectors may sell from private citizen to private citizen without any type of check whatsoever.” Scary stuff. It happens everywhere, not just at he traditional gun shows.

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Wednesday October 09, 2013 · 4:18 AM PDT

2013/10/09 · 04:18

The deadline for the debt limit is approaching like a missile on October 17th and the Republicans in the House are once again threatening to steer the United States into a default on our obligations and debts. Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew recently warned in an interview that Congress was “playing with fire” and it would be “catastrophic” to let the deadline pass without raising the limit.

"If they [Republicans] don't extend the debt limit," Lew said, "we have a very, very short window of time before those scenarios start to be played out."

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