Hey, "the cost of doing nothing" is my line. In Multnomah County, we are spending $500 million on telecommunication services EVERY YEAR. The high-ball CTC feasibility study estimate was it would cost $950 million (ONCE) to own our own network. #OwnDontRent

Is poker a sport?

I still have one.

Neil Shapiro, Director, President and CEO of New Jersey PBS, had a total compensation of $837,146 for fiscal year 2024, on about 1/4 the revenue of Cascade PBS. That's nearly $70k/month. www.njpbs.org/wp-content/u...

Cascade PBS's IRS 990 says that they had a surplus of $11+ million each of the last two years reported. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o... (Part I, line 19).

The primary basis for any price regulation should be the cost of providing the service, not the depth of the customers wallet. Subsidies to ensure service to those unable to afford the cost should be payed through progressive taxation, to punish society for failing to lift everyone up.

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OPB has a $17 million surplus over the last two fiscal years, according to their 990. www.opb.org/pdf/OPB%20FY... Part I, line 19. Please, give it to someone else like Street Roots or KBOO (whose entire budget is less than what OPB pays their CEO).

Article 19:
Everyone has the right to freedom
of opinion and expression; this right
includes freedom to hold opinions with-
out interference and to seek, receive and
impart information and ideas through
any media and regardless of frontier. -- www.un.org/en/udhrbook/...

Proportional representation or multi-member districts get rid of the arbitrary line drawing altogether (at least at finer granularities). Fwiw, I also like a US House with the same population/rep ratio (~33k/rep) as in 1792 (~10k members), fixing Electoral College too. #GonnaNeedABiggerBoat

Geographic representation is dumb.

(2) A representation may be any manifestation of any assertion by words or conduct, including, but not limited to, a failure to disclose a fact.
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