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Episode 59: Chattanooga's EPB Fiber is the highest profile community network in the U.S. It was the first network in the nation to offer a symmetri...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 24:59
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Episode 10: The tenth episode of the Community Broadband Bits podcast features Vince Jordan, Telecom Manager for Longmont Power and Communication i...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 26:04
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Episode 98: Located in rural southwest Colorado, Cortez is just 20 miles from the famous four corners of the US southwest. When incumbents were eit...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 20:46
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Episode 137: Last year was the first year I attended Mountain Connect, an event in the Rockies west of Denver that discusses approaches to improvin...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 17:56
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Episode 161: The community reaction to Longmont's NextLight gigabit municipal fiber network in Colorado has been dramatic. They are seeing major ta...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 24:19
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Episode 106: Longmont is about to break ground on the citywide FTTH gigabit network but it is already offering services to local businesses and a f...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 22:23
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Episode 68: As Longmont prepares to vote on November 5, we are paying special attention to question 2B, which will authorize the city utility to is...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 20:11
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Episode 67: We are excited to continue our history series with Jim Baller of the Baller Herbst Law Firm. This is Jim's third time on the program, h...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 23:05
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Episode 63: Jim Baller is back again for the second show in our series on the history of municipal broadband networks. He is the President of the ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 17:39
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Episode 57: Jim Baller has been helping local governments to build community owned networks for as long as they have been building them. He is the ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 31:18
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Episode 120: Lisa Gonzalez and I have been wading though all kinds of crazy talk since the cities of Wilson and Chattanooga filed petitions with th...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
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Episode 72: We are back with the fourth volume of our responding to "Crazy Talk" theme on the Community Broadband Bits podcast. The source of this ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 24:06
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Episode 62: Lisa Gonzalez and I are back with another back and forth reaction to some of the crazy claims made by opponents of community owned Inte...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 19:52
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Episode 55: Following up on our first "Responding to Crazy Talk" episode last month, we decided to publish a second edition this week. Again, Lisa...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 21:11
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Episode 50: For our 50th episode, we're trying something new: Lisa and I respond to three common claims made by opponents of community owned networ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 12:40
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Episode 34: Have you heard of the National Information Infrastructure, or the NII? Most of us either haven't, or have forgotten we once knew what i...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 30:34
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Episode 25: Dewayne Hendricks has returned for his second appearance on the Community Broadband Bits Podcast, continuing our discussion about the ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 24:07
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Episode 18: Dewayne Hendricks is a serial entrepreneur, innovator, and wireless expert. Wired magazine labeled him a broadband cowboy back in 2001...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 26:34
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Recently, two Washington Post reporters looked at how human beings are valued in Donald Trump world, now, and as he turned the $200000 his father ...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:57
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Episode 83: When we think about the threat of monopoly, we almost always focus on how monopolies can raise prices beyond what is reasonable. But th...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 19:42
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In 1948, the United Nations said seeking asylum is a basic right to seek protection from government persecution. In my state, there is now a contro...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Angie Coiro, Credit: Host, Senior Producer
Show #80 Hour 1 April 11, 2015 | Guest: Scott J. Myers-Lipton, Professor of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State Unive...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Well, in my state we have a remarkable example of corporations having their way with state legislators to pass a bill that- in the long run did not...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 05:46
Caption: Political Gamesmanship's Hostages? Water, Birds, Wildlife  2009 to 2018, Credit: Susan Cook/Google Earth
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and what is wrong. Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks what is wrong with pol...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:19
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The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Arizona’s 2000 law which created an Independent Commission to determine Congressional Re-d...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 07:04