Joylene Wagner, Glendale Unified School Board President, and Nayiri Nahabedian, Glendale Unified School Board Clerk, are both members of the League of Women Voters of Glendale/Burbank, and will co-moderate a panel discussion on this subject Wednesday, September 21, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Glendale Unified School District Meeting room, 223 N. Jackson Street, Glendale.

Panel guests include
Dr. Richard Sheehan, Superintendent, Glendale Unified School District
Mr. Stan Carrizosa, Superintendent, Burbank Unified School District (pending)
Dr. John Garcia, Deputy Superintendent, Glendale Unified School District
Dr. Katherine Thorossian, Asst. Superintendent, Glendlae Unified School District
Ms. Lori Adams, Math Teacher, President of the Burbank Teachers’ Assoc.
Several students from Clark Magnet High School (pending)

The forum is open to the public and written questions can be submitted on the night of the panel discussion.

The mission of the League of Women Voters is to provide outstanding voter education and to encourage citizen engagement. Part of that mission involves studying important public policy issues to educate members, and, if a consensus is reached on a position, to publicly advocate for change.

From the Glendale Library’s event webpage: “Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.”

This FREE event, sponsored by the Friends of the Glendale Public Library, will be held at
Glendale Central Library Children’s Room
222 E. Harvard St.
Glendale
Wednesday, November 17, 7 p.m.
(818) 548-2042
Free 3-hour parking is available at the municipal parking garage across the street (validate ticket at the circulation desk).

Building big broadband networks is not just a matter of international competition; it is also economically efficient. Because of the limited dollars available, it is more economically efficient to invest these resources into networks with unlimited potential (such as fiber-optic cable) than to invest in the deployment of a multitude of interim technologies whose bandwidth could be overwhelmed by Internet traffic in a few years. American policy should thus focus on future-proof networks—networks employing technologies that are scalable and adaptable to future growth in demand. Several existing technologies are limited by physics and geography and will be obsolete in three to five years. Our resources will be better spent on technologies that have a long shelf life.

Some states are admirably developing programs to fill the gaps in small broadband deployment and availability. Certain municipalities are building fiber networks on a case-by-case basis, but many more municipalities have been bogged down on wireless networks that will not satisfy consumers’ hunger for much greater capacity.

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Big Broadband: U.S. broadband policy should focus on the future. Cable modem, DSL, and wireless technologies are unlikely to meet our future needs. The United States needs to set its sights toward the 100 Mbps speeds that are commonplace in Japan and increasingly the focus of European countries.