
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>The good guys just won in California.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin: 0px 2em; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><table id="itemcontentlist" style="position: static; z-index: auto;"><tbody><tr xmlns=""><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px;"><p><i>"as far as it goes, it gives broadband the same critical infrastructure status as roads, sewers and aqueducts."</i></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>JvL</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"Steve Blum's Blog" <<a href="mailto:steveblum@tellusventure.com">steveblum@tellusventure.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Steve Blum's Blog: Governor Brown signs community broadband bond financing bills into law</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">September 30, 2014 at 4:34:22 PM MDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><a href="mailto:jvl@liven.ca">jvl@liven.ca</a><br></span></div><br><div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin: 0px 2em; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px;"><table style="border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; width: 731px;"><tbody><tr><td width="99%" style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px;"><a href="http://www.tellusventure.com/blog" title="(http://www.tellusventure.com/blog)" style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-size: 22px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Steve Blum's Blog: Governor Brown signs community broadband bond financing bills into law</a></h1></td><td width="1%"><a href="http://www.tellusventure.com/blog"><img src="http://www.tellusventure.com/TVAlogosmall.jpg" alt="Link to Steve Blum's Blog" id="feedimage" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 3px;"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><hr style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><table id="itemcontentlist" style="position: static; z-index: auto;"><tbody><tr xmlns=""><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px 3px;"><a name="1" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SteveBlum/~3/H-aNrUorpi4/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Governor Brown signs community broadband bond financing bills into law</a></p><p style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin: 9px 0px 3px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px;"><span>Posted:</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>30 Sep 2014 06:37 AM PDT</p><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px;"><p><a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="http://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tellusventure.com%2Fblog%2Fgovernor-brown-signs-community-broadband-bond-financing-bills-into-law%2F&linkname=Governor%20Brown%20signs%20community%20broadband%20bond%20financing%20bills%20into%20law" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><img src="x-msg://tellusventure.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/custom_icons/facebook.png" width="" height="" alt="Facebook" style="border: none;"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="http://www.ad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