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FRANCOISE BERGAN: City broadband and banking are no panacea to generate city revenue

At the Sentinel-sponsored City Council candidate forum on Oct. 8, every ward-level challenger (Alison Coombs, Juan Marcano, and Bryan Lindstrom) expressed their support of taxpayer-funded “public enterprises” such as municipal broadband and municipal banks. To be clear, what they are proposing is that the city gets into businesses that aren’t the job of the city, […]

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