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$25k a day does not keep the taxman away. Florida Citizens for a Sound Economy today issued a Taxpayer Alert to its more than 40,000 grassroots activists advising that the election vote recount is costing Palm Beach County taxpayers $25,000 a day. According to the Palm Beach County Commissioners’ Office, taxpayers are paying the $25,000 tab to cover the vote counters’ food and salary, additional security around the vote tallying area, and local cable access to broadcast the count as it happens.

November 20, 2000 To the editor: The government-mandated cable modem “open access” argument relies on technical ignorance and vague notions of inequity. Both were on full display in “Cable Alliances Prompt Some Consumers to Pay Twice for Web Access” [November 20th Marketplace Section]. From the beginning, the story interprets the current marketplace for high-speed Internet access as irrational and dominated by conglomerates uninterested in consumer opinion.

Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) today announced the creation of the Center for Consumer Choice. The new center is comprised of policy campaigns in technology, communications, transportation, education and health. Center for Consumer Choice will focus on policy, grassroots education and mobilization efforts in the areas that directly affect the lifestyle and pocketbook of every American.

President Clinton recently declared that, far from being a lame duck, he still has “ten weeks left to quack.” With Americans distracted by vote counts and court battles, the administration has begun quacking, launching a three-pronged regulatory assault that could burden the country for years to come.

A Memorandum for the President-Elect and the 107th Congress Suggests a Centrist Path to Sweeping Reform of Federal Education Programs

The nation’s eyes have turned to the Sunshine state. A ruling handed down Friday by a U.S. District Court in Florida will have long-term implications for the development of the new economy. However, this story has nothing to do with the contested presidential election. Instead, the court’s ruling overturned a Broward county ordinance that mandated “open access” to cable lines owned by AT&T. Mandated “open access,” or forced access as it can more accurately be called, would require owners of cable systems to provide equal and nondiscriminatory access to each and every Internet provider that wishes to serve the cable system’s customers.

North Carolina– North Carolina CSE and activists have been “Walking the Precincts” in NC’s 8th Congressional and key state legislative districts to educate voters on important election year issues. For the two weeks ending Thursday, October 26, activists visited 15,495 homes delivering CSE’s message of antitrust reform to voters before election day. Fifty-nine CSE activists conducted these precinct walks in Carbarrus, Alexander, Yancey, Alamance, Forsyth, Union, McDowell and Caswell counties. As of October 31, 2000, roadways and intersections have been blanketed with special CSE signs in Halloween orange and black that reads “Hey Mike Easley STOP government sponsored lawsuits!”