Monday, October 30, 2006

Kevin Martin on Regulatory Modesty

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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin gave an interesting, thoughtful talk last Thursday as the featured speaker at a program sponsored by the American ...

Microsoft Softens on Net Neutrality

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As a company with a touch of market power itself, perhaps Microsoft has a special sensitivity to the potential for abuse of the FCC's me...
Saturday, October 21, 2006

The Good Doctor's Prescription

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When he was at the FCC heading up the agency's policy shop, where he served with distinction for so many years, Dr. Robert Pepper was kn...
Friday, October 20, 2006

NBCU Version 2.0 and the FCC's Media Ownership Rules

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The FCC is once again taking comments in its various media ownership dockets. (Note right at the outset that the open dockets reach back to ...
Monday, October 16, 2006

Unfair Allegations Against DOJ

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In their October 13 letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin asking that the vote on the AT&T/BellSouth merger be postponed, Democratic comm...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

Of You Tube, Media Ownership Mandates, and the First Amendment

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The news about Google's proposed acquisition of You Tube for $1.6 billion (no, you can't write about this without also including a r...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Maryland's Business Tax Climate Ranking

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Each year the Tax Foundation releases a report detailing how states stack up under its State Business Tax Climate Index (SBTCI). The bottom ...
Friday, October 06, 2006

The Skunk in the Fiber

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In an October 5 piece in Communications Daily [subscription required], entitled "FiOS Big on User Content, Wary of Offending Subscriber...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Deregulation Works

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Deregulation works! That is not a headline you are likely to see in any major newspaper. Well, maybe the WSJ would be an exception. But it ...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Maryland's Economic Freedom Ranking

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Today the National Center for Policy Analysis and Canada's Fraser Institute, two well-respected non-partisan public policy research orga...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

The Real Lesson From Maryland's Voting Problems

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The Washington Post had an editorial yesterday skewering election officials in Montgomery and Prince George's counties and Baltimore fo...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

The Foolishness of Wal-Mart Bashing

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If you want to understand why it is foolish for (mostly) Democrats to bash Wal-Mart, read George Will's column, "Democrats versus W...
Thursday, August 31, 2006

California Opts For More Competition

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The California legislature has sent the Terminator (aka "the Guv") a bill that would provide a big spur to video competition in th...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

More Education Policy

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Yesterday in a post in this space I said that if Maryland gubernatorial candidate Martin O'Malley's plan to pay big signing bonuses...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Education and the Public Sector Unions

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There is a story in today's Washington Post about Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley's plan to pay signing bonuses of $200,000 to ...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

The FCC's Adelphia Order, Mergers, and Free Speech

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I confess that only in the heat of late summer's dog days was I able to muddle through the nearly 200 pages of the FCC's order appr...
Monday, August 21, 2006

State Legislators Against Net Neutrality

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At its just concluded meeting in Music City, aka Nashville, the National Conference of State Legislatures sang the right tune on net neutral...
Thursday, August 17, 2006

Net Neutrality Unreality

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There is an article in today's Wall Street Journal [subscription required] concerning a Cable Labs report that asserts cable operators ...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Early Voting Goes Down (For Now)

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As the Washington Post reported on August 12, Ronald Silkworth, a Democrat-appointed Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge, has ruled tha...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

The Examiner Eyes Earmarks

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The Examiner newspaper is engaging in a useful exercise of "citizen journalism." In an article titled, "Is Congress Spending...