It makes one wonder whether a significant chunk of that $500 Million might end up in the pockets of very expensive consultants, some perhaps donated back to cooperative politicians as campaign contributions, and not actually be applied to the announced goal of the project. Good thing that sort of mischief only happens in the movies, and not actually in "real life"... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Welch" <josh at joshwelch.com> To: "Twin Cities Wireless Users Group List" <tcwug-list at tcwug.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [TCWUG] Article: City Takes First Step Toward Citywide WirelessSystem > Ben Nelson wrote: >> For the complete text: http://www.mplsobserver.com/ >> -- >> Ben Nelson >> 612.685.9116 cell >> benmgroup at earthlink.net >> > > 1. $500 Million seems like a really high number to make this happen. > > 2. The idea of running this thing via a collaborative board of > "representatives from government, business, citizens, and other > stakeholders" seems like a guaranteed path to a screw up. Own it or > outsource it, pick one. > > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list