Muni broadband wins voters' hearts in Colorado but not Seattle
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Filling up in Colorado, half empty and still deflating in Seattle.
Seattle voters yesterday turfed out mayor Mike McGinn, their broadband cheerleader-in-chief, giving the job to state senator Ed Murray by a preliminary margin of 56% to 43%. It was a different story in the Rocky Mountain town of Longmont, where residents overwhelmingly approved a fiber-to-the-home bond measure, 68% to 32%.
FTTH was a prominent McGinn campaign promise, both this year and in 2009, when he was elected mayor.… More