Comments on: Rundown 11/2 http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/11/rundown-112/ National and international news analysis, film, theater, music and more, from WBUR and PRI Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:20:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: glenn bias | Latest News | Fresh News | Hot News http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/11/rundown-112/comment-page-1/#comment-3453 glenn bias | Latest News | Fresh News | Hot News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:10:39 +0000 http://www.hereandnow.org/?p=3649#comment-3453 [...] Listen Listen Hamid Karzai has won a second term by proclamation. Afghanistan’s election commission called off a scheduled run-off after Dr. [...] [...] Listen Listen Hamid Karzai has won a second term by proclamation. Afghanistan’s election commission called off a scheduled run-off after Dr. [...]

]]> By: Terry Harris http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/11/rundown-112/comment-page-1/#comment-3449 Terry Harris Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:49:22 +0000 http://www.hereandnow.org/?p=3649#comment-3449 RE: Your story on stimulus money for internet access in rural areas. There was the same problem getting electricity to rural areas. That's why all these Rural Electric cooperatives exist. The phone companies needed some encouragement to serve rural areas. Any kind of physical infrastructue has the problem that the lower the population densitity the more it costs per customer. You can run a mile of cable in a subdivision and serve a good number of customers. The same mile of cable on a road in a rural area might pass only a small number of houses. These houses are usually further back from the road. RE: Your story on stimulus money for internet access in rural areas.
There was the same problem getting electricity to rural areas. That’s why all these Rural Electric cooperatives exist. The phone companies needed some encouragement to serve rural areas. Any kind of physical infrastructue has the problem that the lower the population densitity the more it costs per customer. You can run a mile of cable in a subdivision and serve a good number of customers. The same mile of cable on a road in a rural area might pass only a small number of houses. These houses are usually further back from the road.

]]> By: Dale Worley http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/11/rundown-112/comment-page-1/#comment-3448 Dale Worley Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:29:24 +0000 http://www.hereandnow.org/?p=3649#comment-3448 In your story in Internet Stimulus Money, the interviewer asked Valerie Fast Horse to justify the Coeur d’Alene Indian tribes need for Internet access. I felt that this question was unfair and showed bias. Why wouldn't the Tribe need Internet access? They need access for same reasons that anybody else does. Why wasn't the same question asked of Wally Bowen, director of MAIN; for example, why do people in rural areas of North Carolina need Internet access? Thanks for your consideration of my comment. In your story in Internet Stimulus Money, the interviewer asked Valerie Fast Horse to justify the Coeur d’Alene Indian tribes need for Internet access. I felt that this question was unfair and showed bias. Why wouldn’t the Tribe need Internet access? They need access for same reasons that anybody else does. Why wasn’t the same question asked of Wally Bowen, director of MAIN; for example, why do people in rural areas of North Carolina need Internet access?

Thanks for your consideration of my comment.

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