It will be very, very interesting to see how the “Government Free Lite Zone” of Colorado Springs, CO plays out. The Denver Post via Sadly, No!:
More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.
Saul Friedman, an 80-year old print veteran at Newsday, hops over the paywall (via BoingBoing):
Customers of Cablevision, the cable and Internet provider that owns Newsday, and people who subscribe to Newsday in print will still be able to browse Newsday.com unfettered. But Newsday recently announced that everyone else will have to pay $5 a week to see much of the site, making it one of the few newspapers in the country to take such a plunge.
Small businesses, like the majority of people in the city, have been sold a false bill of goods with respect to tax cuts. If anything can show what this has really been all about- breaks to big corporations- it is this.
