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Jamshedpur DDC pushes for swift completion of MLA-funded schemes

Review meeting sets deadlines, addresses delays in vital projects Jamshedpur administration tackles delayed MLA-funded schemes, sets new deadlines, and addresses site disputes to expedite development projects. JAMSHEDPUR – The Deputy Development Commissioner of Jamshedpur, Manish Kumar, chaired an important review meeting today, with a focus on accelerating MLA-funded schemes and DC bill…

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No shade to this post in a way because it’s a true inequality but you guys cannot overestimate the differentials in power between municipal governments trying to prevent a blackout or brownout that would cut everyone off from air conditioning and a mega corporations. It’s two different pools entirely

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✨️Newly Weds✨️

Their Doodle, POG, under the cut :

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More than 600 communities across the U.S. have decided to build their own broadband networks after decades of predatory behavior, slow speeds, and high prices by regional telecom monopolies.

That includes the city of Bountiful, Utah, which earlier this year voted to build a $48 million fiber network to deliver affordable, gigabit broadband to every business and residence in the city. The network is to be open access, meaning that multiple competitors can come in and compete on shared central infrastructure, driving down prices for locals (see our recent Copia study on this concept).

As you might expect, regional telecom monopolies hate this sort of thing. But because these networks are so popular among consumers, they’re generally afraid to speak out against them directly. So they usually employ the help of dodgy proxy lobbying and policy middlemen, who’ll then set upon any town or city contemplating such a network using a bunch of scary, misleading rhetoric.

Like in Bountiful, where the “Utah Taxpayers Association” (which has direct financial and even obvious managerial tethers to regional telecom giants CenturyLink (now Lumen) and Comcast) launched a petition trying to force a public vote on the $48 million in revenue bonds authorized for the project under the pretense that such a project would be an unmitigated disaster for the town. (Their effort didn’t work).

Big ISPs like to pretend they’re suddenly concerned about taxpayers and force entirely new votes on these kinds of projects because they know that with unlimited marketing budgets, they can usually flood less well funded towns or cities with misleading PR to sour the public on the idea.

But after the experience most Americans had with their existing broadband options during the peak COVID home education boom, it’s been much harder for telecom giants to bullshit the public. And the stone cold fact remains: these locally owned networks that wouldn’t even be considered if locals were happy with existing options.

You’ll notice these “taxpayer groups” exploited by big ISPs never criticize the untold billions federal and local governments throw at giant telecom monopolies for half-completed networks. Or the routine taxpayer fraud companies like AT&T, Frontier, CenturyLink (now Lumen) and others routinely engage in.

And it’s because such taxpayer protection groups are effectively industry-funded performance art; perhaps well intentioned at one point, but routinely hijacked, paid, and used as a prop by telecom monopolies looking to protect market dominance.

Gigi Sohn (who you’ll recall just had her nomination to the FCC scuttled by a sleazy telecom monopoly smear campaign) has shifted her focus heavily toward advocating for locally-owned, creative alternatives to telecom monopoly power. And in an op-ed to local Utah residents in the Salt Lake Tribune, she notes how telecom giants want to have their cake and eat it too.

They don’t want to provide affordable, evenly available next-generation broadband. But they don’t want long-neglected locals to, either:

Two huge cable and broadband companies, Comcast and CenturyLink/Lumen, have been members of UTA and have sponsored the UTA annual conference. They have been vocally opposed to community-owned broadband for decades and are well-known for providing organizations like the UTA with significant financial support in exchange for pushing policies that help maintain their market dominance. Yet when given the opportunity in 2020, before anyone else, to provide Bountiful City with affordable and robust broadband, the companies balked. So the dominant cable companies not only don’t want to provide the service Bountiful City needs, they also want to block others from doing so.

Big telecom giants like AT&T and Comcast (and all the consultants, think tankers, and academics they hire to defend their monopoly power) love to claim that community owned broadband networks are some kind of inherent boondoggle. But they’re just another business plan, dependent on the quality of the proposal and the individuals involved.

Even then, data consistently shows that community-owned broadband networks (whether municipal, cooperative, or built on the back of the city-owned utility) provide better, faster, cheaper service than regional monopolies. Such networks routinely not only provide the fastest service in the country, they do so while being immensely popular among consumers. They’re locally-owned and staffed, so they’re more accountable to locals. And they’re just looking to break even, not make a killing.

If I was a lumbering, apathetic, telecom monopoly solely fixated on cutting corners and raising rates to please myopic Wall Street investors, I’d be worried too.

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i know that we're supposed to hate it and i *do* hate it but the fact that this year there are barely any companies that try to pander to lgbt people by like changing their logo to rainbow colours... and i feel like this year people started being more openly homophobic again, and i mean it like, i am not american, so this is not part of the american thing ppl are already somewhat talking about. a co-worker of mine called people who attend pride "freaks" like out in the open (like she's religious but still). it all feels quite bad. the city of hai.fa didn't even put up pride flags near where the parade is and i can personally promise you, in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 in early june they were already putting the pride flags up lol

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EPA. Why?

Horrible fact of the day: Chevron just released a new boat fuel that WILL give you cancer.

Not "might", not "could", WILL. It has a cancer ratio of 1:1, as in, in a group of 10 people, ALL 10 would contract CANCER.

The EPA's safety limit is 1:1,000,000 as in 1 in a million people get cancer.

The EPA approved it anyways. I am not joking. The EPA approved a boat fuel that has a near 100% chance of giving someone cancer. It has such a good chance of giving someone cancer that if you DIDN'T get cancer YOU WOULD BE AN OUTLIER.

Fuck the oil industries.

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GoCorp/Utilitech Metrocab "Robo-Hack" Automated Taxi

Source: The Essential Guide to Droids (Del Rey, 1999)

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The Beauty of Starlit Nights in India

The content reflects on the transition of rural and urban environments in Uttar Pradesh, India, focusing on the nostalgic beauty of starry nights now overshadowed by pollution and urbanization. While traditional village life fostered community and harmony with nature, rapid development in cities like Lucknow has led to environmental degradation, increased population pressures, and a decline in…

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SUDA & VTADA Limits Expanded

Karimnagar: Bowing to demand of people, the state government expanded the limits of the Satavahana Urban Development Authority (SUDA) which includes the total area of Karimnagar district and issued a G. O. number 188. SUDA was formed in 2017 with 61 villages along with Kothapally municipality and Karimnagar municipal corporation covering 622 square kilometers. With the merger of 147 villages in…

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���गर निगम आयुक्त को आठ हफ्तों में निपटना होगा संजौली मस्जिद मामला, हाई कोर्ट ने दिए आदेश

नगर निगम आयुक्त को आठ हफ्तों में निपटना होगा संजौली मस्जिद मामला, हाई कोर्ट ने दिए आदेश #ShimlaNews #Himachal News #SanjauliMasjid #RightNews

Himachal Pradesh News: हिमाचल प्रदेश हाई कोर्ट ने नगर निगम आयुक्त को संजौली मस्जिद मामला दो महीने में निपटाने के आदेश जारी किए हैं. यह आदेश हिमाचल प्रदेश उच्च न्यायालय के न्यायाधीश जस्टिस संदीप शर्मा की ओर से जारी किए गए हैं. अपने आदेशों में उच्च न्यायालय ने नगर निगम आयुक्त को कहा है कि आठ हफ्तों में मस्जिद के मुख्य केस की प्रोसिडिंग पूरी की जाए. हिमाचल प्रदेश उच्च न्यायालय की ओर से यह आदेश उस…

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The Ghaziabad Civic Board Has Put the Hiked Tax on Hold

The Board of Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation had restructured the tax structure of property tax in 2022. The restructure of the property tax included three components, such as house tax, water tax, and sewage/drainage tax. But the decision to hike the property tax has still not been implemented so far.

Very recently, the municipal corporation board of Ghaziabad called a meeting to discuss the hiked property tax to be levied from the property owners. The board finally decided not to implement the hiked prices of property, which is normally revised every four years. The decision of the municipal board has been forwarded to the UP government for further directions to act upon. The news has been confirmed by the municipal commissioner named Vikramaditya Malik....explore more

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KMC Building Rules Ensuring Safe and Structurally Sound Residential Buildings

KMC building rules ensuring safe and structurally sound buildings help to protect occupants, promote sustainability and enhance community resilience in Kolkata. KMC Building Rules: Importance and ImplicationsLatest News on KMC’s Building Policy:Residential Buildings According to KMC:Building Sanction Process of KMC:Various Types of Buildings Under KMC Building Rules 2024:KMC Building Rules…

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Gupta Inaugurates 185 Development Projects in Jamshedpur

₹5.6 crore schemes launched in Mango and JNAC areas Key Points: • Minister Banna Gupta lays foundation for 185 MLA-funded projects • 138 schemes in Mango, 47 in JNAC area with combined budget of ₹5.6 crore • Focus on road widening, drainage, and street lighting improvements JAMSHEDPUR – Minister Banna Gupta has initiated a series of development projects aimed at enhancing infrastructure in…

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BMC Recruitment 2024

बृहन्मुंबई महानगरपालिकेत भरती 2024 BMC Recruitment 2024,सरकारी नोकरी जाहिराती, sarkari naukri 2024, 12th pass, 10th pass, नवीन भरती 2024, एकूण : 1846 पदाचे नाव & तपशील : कार्यकारी सहायक (लिपिक)  शैक्षणिक पात्रता : (i) 45% गुणांसह वाणिज्य/विज्ञान/कला/विधी पदवी (ii) इंग्रजी व मराठी टंकलेखन 30 श.प्र.मि. (iii) MS-CIT किंवा समतुल्य वयोमर्यादा : 14 ऑगस्ट 2024 रोजी 18 ते 38 वर्षे [मागासवर्गीय: 05 वर्षे…

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Municipal Corporation Mandi Patwari Recruitment 2024

Municipal Corporation Mandi Patwari Recruitment 2024 Municipal Corporation Mandi Patwari Recruitment 2024: Applications are invited for re-engaging of 01 vacant post of Patwari on a remuneration basis under the establishment of Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Mandi, District Mandi HP from amongst the retired Patwaris officials. The application form along with all relevant/supporting…