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House Appropriations Committee Puts a Halt to Visclosky’s $600M Train to Munster

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July 17, 2017-The US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee tonight advanced a 2017 budget that included zero dollars for Congressman Visclosky’s $600M train to Munster.  Congressman Visclosky is a member of the committee and he rose to speak in favor of the New Starts funding program.  Congressman Visclosky acknowledged that states had spent “millions of dollars” in…

BREAKING: City of Gary Returns $$Millions to City by Reducing Contribution to Munster Train

Under the resolution reducing the City’s contribution to Visclosky’s West Lake Extension, the City will see at least $3M in funding stay within the City for repair of roads, bridges and other economic development projects.

March 21, 2017-Just moments ago the City of Gary Common Council unanimously approved a resolution reducing the contribution the City will provide to Congressman Visclosky’s…

Hanna: Slager Bill Could Create Super-TIF Anywhere

Cedar Lake, Lowell, Griffith, Portage, Michigan City, LaPorte, South Bend could all lose local income tax and property tax to RDA for 30 years under Slager/Visclosky plan.

March 10, 2017-At a meeting of the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority (RDA) yesterday, RDA Chair Bill Hanna stated that transit development districts could be created at any bus stop under Hal Slager’s proposed…

Griffith to LiveStream Council Meeting on Facebook

Griffith, East Chicago, Hammond and Cedar Lake are the only towns who have had the fortitude to resist the political pressure applied by Visclosky, One Region and The times.

March 7, 2017-The Town of Griffith is taking a significant step toward transparency tonight as they will livestream the Griffith Town Council on Facebook. The Council is expected to take up Congressman Pete Visclosky’s…

Visclosky Touts Train Plan at Purdue Forum

Congressman Apparently Doesn’t Realize Current South Shore Line is Same Distance from PUC as Extension Would Be

January 15, 2016-At a Town Hall Forum last night, Congressman Peter Visclosky touted his proposal for a $600M, 8 mile extension of the South Shore line. The Congressman spoke of the potential benefit to Purdue of the extension. “You will have a train to Chicago right down here on 173rd…

If We Quit Building Things, We Get Stupid

Cartoon submitted by a Gazette Reader after she read the article below. November 17, 2015-Civility Counts! Unless you disagree with the self-appointed leaders of the Region. Don Babcock, “economic development director” for utility monopoly NIPSCO, recently quoted Visclosky saying “when we quit making things, we get stupid.” In a recent One Region/Times article, Don Babcock doubles down on…

When we talk about an Internet without Net Neutrality, we often describe a world in which companies like AT&T and Verizon can block you from visiting certain websites, slow down your Netflix videos, charge you extra for Facebook, censor your speech and make it harder for you to get online. Bad stuff.

But if these behaviors — which these companies are keen to enact ASAP — don’t get under your skin, maybe these words will: “permissible data.”

The phrase belongs to a patent AT&T has filed. It describes how the company could restrict an Internet user from “consuming an excessive amount of channel bandwidth by restricting use of the channel in accordance with the type of data being downloaded to the user.

Permissible data, the patent notes, “includes file-sharing files and movie downloads if user subscription does not permit such activity.”

AT&T’s proposed technology would help it define which Internet traffic is “permissible” and “non-permissible” on its network. This is exactly the scenario that supporters of Net Neutrality (read: everyone but the Internet service providers and their friends in Congress) have feared. In fact, a company like AT&T defining what kind of data is and isn’t permitted on its network is the very opposite of Net Neutrality.

But now that a court has thrown out the Federal Communications Commission’s Net Neutrality rules, this is our reality. If AT&T launched a product based on this patent — and given its history of anti-consumer behavior, there’s no reason to think it wouldn’t — it would be able to “check” our data to see if we have the appropriate “user subscription” needed to download specific kinds of content.

Welcome to the cable-ized Internet, where for a fee you can “subscribe” to different channels and websites rather than being able to access all of them. The implications for privacy, copyright, free speech and social justice are overwhelming — and depressing.

This is the Internet as AT&T wants it: a network surveilled by the company that delivers access to it, where every move is under scrutiny. Are you watching the wrong videos? Saying the wrong things to the wrong people? Using the wrong devices to get online? Looks like the data you’re transmitting is “non-permissible” according to your current “subscription” and we’re going to disconnect you or, worse, turn you over to the authorities.

We’ve lost the legal protections that once guaranteed our right to connect and communicate freely. Only the FCC can restore this protection and save us from AT&T’s greedy designs. If the agencyclassifies broadband as a communications service and passes strong, long-lasting Net Neutrality rules, all of this will go away.

So if you haven’t already, tell the FCC to save the Internet from ridiculous patents like this. We have the right to access what we want, when we want, without ever asking permission. Source: Freepress

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