FC: FCC a bunch of criminals? and the future of cities

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21972.html

                     A Tale of Too-Big Cities
                     by Declan McCullagh 

                     3:00 a.m.  28.Sep.99.PDT
                     JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming --
                     Infrastructures are crumbling, crime rates
                     are zooming, and families are fleeing cities
                     by the Volvo wagonload. Boom areas like
                     Silicon Valley, northern Virginia, and their
                     imitators are mostly in suburbia, or in
                     farther-flung exurbia. 

                     So what else is new?
                     [...]

http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21985.html

                     The Seedy Side of the FCC
                     by Declan McCullagh 
                     12:15 p.m.  28.Sep.99.PDT

                     GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming
                     -- Americans often seem to view the US
                     Federal Communications Commission as
                     something between a benign nuisance
                     and an antediluvian bureaucracy. 

                     But is the FCC really a group of
                     modern-day Don Corleones who run a
                     protection racket complete with threats
                     to kowtow to government demands or
                     else? 

                     That's how one FCC commissioner views
                     his colleagues. "They are engaged in
                     shakedowns, extortions, and things that
                     fall outside the formal regulatory
                     process," Harold Furchtgott-Roth said
                     Tuesday at a Hudson Institute
                     conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. 
                     [...]


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