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ARTICLES

American Public Power Association (APPA), Shining a Light on Public Service, Washington, D.C.: APPA.
article-appa.pdf (1.1MB)

Beverly S. Bunch, “Changes in the Usage of Enterprise Funds by Large City Governments. Public Budgeting and Finance. Summer 2000, pp. 15-29.

DTE Biomass. Success stories. Ann Arbor, MI: DTE Biomass Energy, no date.
www.dtebe.com/stories/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Landfill Methane Outreach Program, “Accomplishments.” Washington, D.C.: EPA, March 17, 2005.
www.epa.gov/lmop/accomplish.htm

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Landfill Methane Outreach Program, “Benefits of LFG Energy.” March 17, 2005 Washington, D.C.: EPA, no date.
www.epa.gov/lmop/benefits.htm

James Flanigan, “Community Investment in San Jose,” New York Times, July 19, 2007.
article-flanigan07.pdf (484KB)

Gerald S. Ford, “Does Municipal Supply of Communications Crowd-Out Private Communications Investment? An Empirical Study,” Applied Economics Studies, February 2005, pp. 1-12.
article-ford.pdf (169KB)

George S. Ford and Thomas M. Koutsky, “Broadband and Economic Development: A Municipal Case Study from Florida,” Applied Economic Studies, April 2005, pp. 1-17.
article-ford-koutsky.pdf (174KB)

Ed Gubbins, Neutrality and municipalities, Telephony Online, February 20, 2006.
article-gubbins.pdf (76KB)

Charles Johnson and Robin Hunden, Public Subsidies for Headquarters Hotel Development.” Economic Development Journal: winter 2002.
article-johnson.pdf (2.9MB)

Robert McChesney and John Podesta, “Let There Be Wi-Fi: Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century—and much of America is being left in the dark,” Washington Monthly, January-February 2006.
article-mcchesney-podesta.pdf (98KB)

Mercury-News Editorial Board, “Broadband is in the air as cities launch initiatives,”
San Jose Mercury-News, August 21, 2005
article-mercury.pdf (78KB)

Gary Paul, “Measuring the Effect of Municipal Enterprises on the Budgets of Local Governments,” Western Journal of Black Studies: vol. 23, no. 4 (winter 1999).

Ben Scott, Ryan E. Chesley, Naveen Lakshmipathy, Kartik Ramachandran, and Matt Barranca, Washington DC: Free Press and New America Foundation, Spectrum Policy Program, February 2005.
paper-scott-et-al.pdf (140KB)

Al Senia, “The Saga of L.A.’s Municipal Utility: Charting the Future of Public Power,” Energybiz Magazine, May/June 2006, pp. 30-37.
article-senia.pdf (904KB)

Theodore J. Stumm, “Revenue Generation and Expenditure Implications of Municipal Non-Utility Enterprises.” Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, vol. 8, no. 4 (winter 1997).

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David St. John, Municipal Fiber to the Home Deployments: Next Generation Broadband as a Municipal Utility, Washington, DC: Fiber-to-the-Home Council North America, April 2008.
article-st-john.pdf (310KB)

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Cathy Swirbul, “In Search of a National Broadband Strategy,” Public Power, June 2008, pp. 64-67.
article-swirbul.pdf (540KB)

Michael W. Taylor, Memphis Light Gas and Water: Breaking New Ground for Municipal Utilities, Baltimore, MD: 8th Annual LMOP Conference and Project Expo, January 2005.
article-taylor.pdf (750KB)

Ian Urbina, “Hopes for Wireless Cities Fade as Internet Providers Pull Out,” New York Times, March 22, 2008.
article-urbina.pdf

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BOOKS

Barry J. Frieden and Lynne B. Sagalyn. Downtown Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.

David L. Imbroscio, Restructuring Cities: Alternative Economic Development and Urban Regimes. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 1997.

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PAPERS

Gar Alperovitz and Steve Dubb, "City, County, and State Policies and Actions that Build Community Wealth," The Democracy Collaborative, April, 2005.
paper-alperovitz.pdf (154KB)

American Public Power Association, Straight Answers to False Charges Against Public Power, Washington, DC: APPA, 2004.
paper-appa.pdf (1.1MB)

Michael Calabrese, Broadcast to Broadband: Completing the Digital Television Transition Can Jumpstart Affordable Wireless Broadband, Testimony before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Washington, DC: U.S. Senate, July 12, 2005.
paper-calabrese.pdf (137KB)

Becca Vargo Daggett, Ownership Matters, Minneapolis, MN: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, April 2006.
paper-daggett.pdf (73KB)

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John Farrell, Concentrating Solar and Decentralized Power: Government Incentives Hinder Local Ownership, Minneapolis, MN: New Rules Project, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, May 2008.
paper-farrell08.pdf (1.3MB)

Gerald Ford and Thomas M. Koutsky, “Broadband and Economic Development: A Municipal Case Study from Florida,” Applied Economic Studies, April 2005.
paper-ford-koutsky.pdf (177KB)

Edward L. Glasser, Public Ownership in the American City, Discussion Paper Number 1930, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Harvard University, October 2001.
paper-glasser.pdf (260KB)

Christopher Hoene and Michael Pagano, “‘Enterprising’ Cities: An Exploratory Analysis of Municipal Enterprise Revenues, User Fees and Charges, and Service Delivery.” Association for Budgeting and Financial Management conference: Washington, D.C., Jan. 17-19, 2002.
paper-hoene.pdf (60KB)

Doris Kelley, Telecommunications Coordinator, Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities, Economic and Community Benefits of Cedar Fall, Iowa’s Municipal Telecommunications Network. October 2, 2003. Updated July 6, 2004.
paper-kelley.pdf (42KB)

Christopher Mitchell, Burlington Telecom Case Study, Minneapolis, MN: Institute for Local Self Reliance, August 2007.
paper-mitchell.pdf (1.2MB)

Christopher Mitchell, Municipal Broadband: Demystifying Wireless and Fiber-Optic Options, Policy Brief, Minneapolis, MN: New Rules Project, January 2008.
paper-mitchell08.pdf (1.3MB)

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John Windhausen Jr., “A Blueprint for Big Broadband,” EDUCAUSE, January 2008.
paper-windhausen.pdf (1.1MB)

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REPORTS

American Public Power Association (APPA), 2005-06 Annual Directory & Statistical Report, Washington D.C.: APPA, 2005. Selected statistics available at:
report-appa.pdf (646KB)

American Public Power Association, Community Broadband: Separating Fact From Fiction, Washington, DC: APPA, 2004.
report-appa2.pdf (460KB)

Joshua Breitbart with Naveen Lakshmipathy, The Philadelphia Story: Learning from a Municipal Wireless Pioneer, Sascha D. Meinrath, Editor, Washington, DC: New America Foundation, December 2007.
report-breitbart.pdf (670KB)

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Connected Nation, Inc., The Economic Impact of Stimulating Broadband Nationally, Washington, DC: Connected Nation, Inc., February 2008.
report-connected-nation.pdf (8.8MB)

Becca Vargo Daggett, Localizing the Internet: Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem, Minneapolis, MN: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, January 2007.
report-daggett.pdf (1MB)

Becca Vargo Daggett and David Morris, Who will own Minnesota’s information highways? Minneapolis, MN: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, June 2005.
report-daggett.pdf (450KB)

John M. Kelly, Paying the Bills, Measuring the Savings. Washington, D.C.: APPA, March 2005.
report-kelly.pdf (325KB)

City of Minneapolis, Wireless Minneapolis: Municipal Broadband Initiative Business Case, Version 3.0, Minneapolis, MN: City of Minneapolis, Feb. 16, 2006.
report-minneapolis.pdf (657KB)

Geeta Pradhan, Michael Cudahy, and Brian Worobey, Boston Unplugged: Mapping a Wireless Future, Boston, MA: Boston Foundation, February 2, 2006.
report-pradhan-et-al.pdf (4.7MB)

Adria Scharf, with Thad Williamson, Alex Campbell and Jeff Pope. Municipal Enterprise: A Strategy for Job Creation and Stabilization. Sondra Myers, ed., The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland and The National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, November 2003.
report-scharf.pdf (550KB)

Tony Sutton, Special Study: Municipal Enterprise Activities. St. Paul, MN: Government Information Division, (Office of the State Auditor, State of Minnesota) March 18, 2004.
report-sutton.pdf (3.08MB)

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