In response to Jill's comment on my last post, it's important to note that it won't only be Cleveland City Council trying to deal with Time Warner this Summer. As a result of the Adelphia buyout deal and some territory-trading with Comcast, Time-Warner intends to take over franchises in thirty-seven municipalities in Cuyahoga County alone (and over five hundred statewide). Jill's home town, Pepper Pike, is one of them. Click on the map to get the picture:
If you live in one of these communities, you should be talking to your own city or village council first. Of course, one suggestion you could make is that this might be an excellent time to try a little of that "regional cooperation" we keep hearing about. There may not be time to organize all thirty-seven communities to deal with Time-Warner together, especially if the Federal government imposes new time limits on franchise approvals -- but then again, you never know unless you try. And it can't hurt for the cities to at least explore some coordination and information sharing.
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."