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September 19, 2012 By Annette Meeks

Gaylord Officials Keep Report Secret on Risk to Taxpayers with $70 Million Telecom Network

  --Officials in the city of Gaylord have informed the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (FFM) they will not make public a key analysis of the potential financial risks posed by a plan to invest $70 million in bonding for the RS Fiber telecom network.  Proponents of the municipal broadband project expect RS Fiber to start paying for itself after three or four years. If not, …

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September 5, 2012 By Annette Meeks

$70 Million Countywide Government Telecom Network on Hold

Construction of the proposed taxpayer-backed telecom network known as RS Fiber has been quietly pushed back until at least next spring. Yet you’d never know this if you visited their website. According to the RS Fiber website, groundbreaking was to occur last month. The reason for the unexpected and unusual delay cited by supporters of the municipal broadband proposal involves municipal bond …

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August 1, 2012 By Annette Meeks

$35 Million Prior Lake Telecom Proposal Pits City Against Private Business

PRIOR LAKE, MN—A recently minted $35 million taxpayer-backed telecom proposal in Prior Lake takes a sharply confrontational posture toward the very sector the project ostensibly aims to attract—private business. An $80,000 feasibility study aggressively singles out three telecom providers with thousands of Prior Lake customers that the proposed city network would compete for, even as it lays claim …

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