wow, Burlington and Al Jazeera

[sadie_sabot]

From Z Net:apparently, the city of Burlington, where I spent several interesting years in my late teens/early 20's, has municipally owned cable company! Now that's cool! I had no idea! I found out from reading this article which is about how a bunch of what seems to be islamophopbes are agitating to get the municipally owned cable company to

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[slipbluenight]

so, how did you find this article?

after you tell me i'll tell you why i asked :)

[sadie_sabot]

LOL OK, I'll play...

It was on ZNet, which I look at once or twice a week.

[slipbluenight]

oh, the person who wrote the article is s's friend and former business partner, the one he started his newspaper with.

i showed him the link and he took a quick look and said -but that's only part of the story- i think he might have more about it in his column this week.

[sadie_sabot]

small world, eh? I'd love to see a link to a more thorough story if possible.

I didn't even know Burlington had municipal cable, that's pretty cool!

[slipbluenight]

not bad for a town that's not nearly as liberal as SF and berkeley, huh?
:)

[sadie_sabot]

LOL. I'd say burlington isn't as infamous as SF or Berkeley, but when have either of those cities ever had a socialist mayor??