Seattle’s shiny economic future depends on city-owned broadband

Why we need city-owned broadband to create the thriving, competitive city we all think we have coming.

Today, Seattle faces a choice that may again take it out of its comfort zone: Whether to grow and maintain its own broadband Internet system, or give in to the monopoly cable and telecom providers who are pressuring the city not to move forward with its own system.

By Mark Anderson

Full Story: http://crosscut.com/2014/04/10/seattle/119542/seattle-broadband-ed-murray-comcast-city-owned/