Red Bank TV

I’ve been receiving feedback asking me that question.  And my answer is: absolutely these are issues that affect people living my town and Verizon approached my town with their desire to run a new type of business.  How can these issues not be addressed locally?

Let me try to talk out my reasoning on ‘A La Carte’ cable service a bit more in this post.

Not offering ‘A La Carte’ cable service will continue to make cable TV service too expensive for some Red Bank Residents; all while Verizon makes more educational programming available to those who can afford a package.  There is a big discrepancy between income levels on the “two sides” of Red Bank.  This void means that families on the two different sides of town have differing levels of real dollars that can be put to use on educational spending.  I am not an expert on public education but I can use common sense to conclude that this gap has to contribute to making the job of educating Red Bank’s children more difficult.  So I think it would be fair to say that anything that exasperates this gap would make teaching Red Bank’s kids harder.  Isn’t that a local issue?  

Our town council has an opportunity to help keep the educational gap between the two sides of Red Bank from growing.  Pushing Verizon to offer ‘A La Carte’ cable service is good for our town; thus it is a very local issue.

There is legislation working it’s way through Congress that would require cable companies to provide ‘A La Carte’ cable service.  I don’t like relying on Congress to handle issues that we can deal with locally.  Verizon and the Cable companies have too much money and too much influence in Congress.  If you agree that this is a local issue then I urge you to ask our town council to deal with this issue locally and not wait and hope for Congress to act.