{"id":1510,"date":"2005-06-30T07:13:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T07:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2005-06-30T07:13:29","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T07:13:29","slug":"madison_should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Madison Should be Out Front on this&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Isenberg on <a href=\"http:\/\/isen.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/ballot-battle-of-lafayette-la-on-july.html\">Lafayette, Louisiana&#8217;s 7\/16\/2005 referendum<\/a> to fund a municipal fiber network:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Following the <a href=\"http:\/\/isen.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/brand-x-worse-than-i-thought.html\">Brand X decision<\/a>, the future of U.S. networks weighs more heavily on municipal network initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>As Lafayette, Louisiana&#8217;s muni FTTH proposal approaches it&#8217;s July 16th referendum on the necessary $125 million bond issue, the following organizations have stepped up to support the plan, including,<br \/>\nThe Realtors Association of Acadiana<br \/>\nDowntown Development Authority<br \/>\nDowntown Lafayette Unlimited<br \/>\nThe Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce<br \/>\nLafayette Economic Development Authority<br \/>\nRebuild Lafayette North Committee<br \/>\nAcadiana Home Builders Association<br \/>\nparish executive committees of both Democratic and Republican parties,<br \/>\nThe Louisiana Municipal Association<br \/>\nand several others<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Isenberg on Lafayette, Louisiana&#8217;s 7\/16\/2005 referendum to fund a municipal fiber network: Following the Brand X decision, the future of U.S. networks weighs more heavily on municipal network initiatives. As Lafayette, Louisiana&#8217;s muni FTTH proposal approaches it&#8217;s July 16th referendum on the necessary $125 million bond issue, the following organizations have stepped up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}