While preparing for Blandin’s March eNews, I ran across an editorial at Local Tech Wire on San Francisco’s city-wide WiFi plans. The author, Greg Richardson, works for Civitium, a consultant that “finds itself in the middle of a growing debate about how the City of San Francisco should proceed”. The editorial comes in two parts:

• Part I: Municipal Wi-deology: How Politics Are Driving Public Broadband Debate
• Part II: Municipal Wi-deology: Put Politics Aside

While the immediate focus of the article is local to San Francisco, the items addressed are interesting to any municipality looking at WiFi – and very often his point is that issues that are being taken to task in San Francisco really belong to a national discussion. He does this by striking out against views that he labels as extreme – especially the left leaning views.

While the author clearly states his agenda, repeatedly – I think it’s interesting reading especially for anyone who might agree with him or for anyone who might want to prepare to debate anyone who aggress with Richardson.