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Comcast gets good marks
from cable commission
Comcast’s performance met all
conditions of city and county franchises during the past year, reports
City/County Telecommunications Commission executive director
Donna Mason.
The number of complaints to the cable
television company, including complaints regarding broadband internet service,
dropped 50 percent during 2004, to a total of 111. Complaints during 2003 had
already dropped 30 percent over the previous year, according to Mason.
Improved service came despite a
decline in total cable television subscribers in 2004. Comcast cable customers
declined by 444 subscribers during 2004, to a total of 78,532.
The cable company’s broadband internet
service soared during the year. Comcast signed up over 7,000 new broadband
customers during 2004, bringing its customer base for the internet service to
37,907—triple the number of internet customers it served in 2000.
As of December 2004, the company had
nearly 2,000 miles of subscriber cable in the county, making cable available to
146,644 homes.
County growth management plan
review will continue into October
Clark County commissioners hope to
have the county’s revised Comprehensive Growth Management Plan ready for
adoption by the board in October, according to a time-line on the county
website.
Meantime, commissioners are holding
work sessions, the next of which is at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, in the public
Service Center. The work sessions are open to the public but focus on technical
aspects of the plan, which was adopted last September. Public comments regarding
planning assumptions may be emailed to the county at
boardcom@clark.wa.gov.
Since adoption, however, the plan has
been appealed on more than a dozen counts to the Western Washington Growth
Management Hearings Board.
The growth plan establishes land use
designations that are supposed to meet the need for homes and jobs over the next
20 years.
The growth plan currently calls for a
countywide population of 518,000 by 2023, an increase of 147,000.
Gerald F. Bader Award
nominees sought
Nominations for the
Gerald F. Bader M.D. Award are being
sought by the Community Foundation. Bader, a retired pediatrician and first
award winner, was recognized for his significant contributions in increasing
child health care and assuring the well-being of children.
The award was created and is funded by
David and
Patricia Nierenberg and is sponsored by the Southwest Washington Medical
Center Foundation, the Southwest Washington Child Care Consortium and the
Community Foundation.
The award will be presented Friday,
June 17, the first anniversary of the Patricia Nierenberg Child Care and Early
Learning Center. Nominating forms are available by calling the Community
Foundation, 694-2550.
News briefs
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest
Washington presents an address today by Wilson
Goode Sr., former mayor of Philadelphia, at a 5 to 7 p.m. celebration of
the Magic of Mentoring, in Club Green Meadows.
g The Clark County
Animal Control Advisory Board meets at 6:30 p.m. this evening in the 6th floor
training room in the Public Service Center, 1300
Franklin Street.
Headlines at home and from around the world:
(Click on the headlines below for the rest of the story)
County
commissioners looking for answers for trans-Columbia River crossing--Columbian,
Erin Middlwood
County commissioners told I-5 bridge is not a trick to bring light-rail to Clark
County--Oregonian, Alan Brettman
Vancouver
business leaders face choice of monthly $7.50 employee fee or possible
reenactment of a city business and occupation tax--Columbian, Jeffrey Mize
Nautilus pumped
over gains--Columbian, Jonathan Nelson
President Bush's news conference, 8 p.m. EDT tonight to focus on Social
Security, fuel prices--USA TODAY, AP
Iraq's new government approved--Washington Post, Carl Murphy and Fred
Barbash
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
[updates every five minutes]--USDA Forest Service, Mount St. Helens National
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