(Come to the California Public Utilities Commision at 505 Van Ness Avenue on June 9th at 8:30am to make a public comment. We can do better than 30-1 next time!)

I was out-gunned 30-1.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracy-rosenberg/att-tmobile-looking-like-_b_844118.html

To this T-Mobile customer, last week's announcement of a proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile sent shivers up my spine. And not just because I anticipate a 25% increase in my monthly wireless bill.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracy-rosenberg/be-careful-what-you-wish_b_800527.html

Be careful what you wish for.

Sometimes you might get it.

Note: Some OL readers have asked his piece be flagged as being written by someone involved in the KPFA/Pacifica restructuring. Just so everyone is very clear, Tracy is a board member who is involved in the situation and this is her perspective.--SM

Berkeley-After a slow motion buildup for several months, The Pacifica Foundation, the Berkeley-based 501(c)-3 not-for-profit organization that holds the licenses for five educational radio stations across the country and provides content for 150 affiliated stations, has finally moved to stanch financial bleeding at the network's Berkeley unit KPFA-FM by laying off 7-8 employees after posting a million dollar loss over the past two years.

First, we had the Supreme Court affirming the free speech rights of corporations.

Now we have the DC Court of Appeals telling us Comcast owns the Internet.

But they don't.

We do.

As we arrive at the end of the long health care reform battle with something less than nirvana, media activists have been waiting with bated breath for the release of the long-awaited National Broadband Plan from the Federal Communications Commission.

In May of 2009, I became a public access television producer. Couldn’t have picked a worse time.