Jim Baller responds to SBC’s examples of supposed municipal failures

In its written testimony to the Indiana legislature in support of HB 1148, SBC claimed that “the landscape is littered with examples of misjudgments and miscalculations by local government officials who, understandably, bought into the Field of Dreams scenario.” SBC gave seven examples. Not one was correct or supported SBC’s position.

Jim Baller responds to Progress & Freedom Foundation’s 2004 “study”

P&FF maintains that public entities should not enter the communications because they have numerous unfair advantages over their private-sector counterparts. Citing two earlier studies and  three new case histories, P&FF also maintains that public communications ventures are likely fail. None of these arguments has merit.