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Friday, December 22, 2006

Issue Advocacy: The Real Loophole

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Yesterday a federal court ruled that the Federal Election Commission erred in ruling that the Wisconsin Right to Life organization could be...
Monday, December 18, 2006

Robert McDowell and the Public Interest Standard

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FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has decided, based upon the terms of his Ethics Agreement, the independent view of the Office of Government...
Friday, December 15, 2006

The 10% Telephone Tax

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Each quarter the FCC recalculates the amount that consumers are taxed to support the "universal service fund". The FCC's most ...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Video Franchise Reform, Net Neutrality, and a Dear Larry Letter

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Michigan’s Governor Jennifer Granholm is poised to sign a new video franchise reform law just passed by the legislature. By establishing uni...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Video Reform Spurs Fiber to the Home Growth

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There is a new study out commissioned by the Fiber to the Home Council indicating that since the passage of the Texas video franchise refo...
Friday, December 08, 2006

Real Property and Real Competition

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Two recent items got me thinking about buildings--real property--and telecom competition, and, ultimately, about how respect for private pro...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

From Cellphones to TV: This Convergence Thing Ain't No Joke

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Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a story about Comedy Central's plans to air on prime time TV a show first produced by start-up w...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Argumentation by Adjective

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A group of self-described consumer groups has submitted a letter to the FCC opposing a delay in the July 2007 scheduled implementation date...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

The Maryland PSC and Regulatory First Principles

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A story in the November 11 edition Saturday's Washington Post begins: "The Maryland Public Service Commission could be on their wa...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

The Integration Ban and Integrating DTV Transition Policy

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NCTA President Kyle McSlarrow has sent a letter dated October 31 to the leadership of the Commerce Department and the FCC Chairman and Commi...
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...
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