Municipal
Enterprise
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/
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)
Winona LaDuke, "Local Energy, Local Power," Bainbridge, WA: Yes!
Magazine, Winter 2007.
article-laduke.pdf (180KB)
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)
Sascha D. Meinrath,
Success Depends on Public Investment and Civic Engagement: Five Guideposts for
the Future of Municipal Wireless, Washington, DC: New America Foundation, Wireless
Future Program, Issue Brief #24, December 2008
article-meinrath.pdf
(80KB)
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).
*NEW*
Victor W. Pickard and Sascha D. Meinrath, “Revitalizing the Public Airwaves:
Opportunistic Unlicensed Reuse of Government Spectrum,” International
Journal of Communication, 2009, p. 1052-1084.
article-pickard-meinrath.pdf
(170KB)
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).
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)
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
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.
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)
Brian Dabson and Jennifer Keller, Rural Broadband: A RUPRI Policy Brief, Columbia,
MO: Rural Policy Research Institute, December 8, 2008.
paper-dabson-keller.pdf (250KB)
Becca Vargo Daggett, Ownership Matters, Minneapolis, MN: Institute for Local
Self-Reliance, April 2006.
paper-daggett.pdf
(73KB)
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)
John Windhausen Jr., A Blueprint for Big Broadband, Washington, DC: EDUCAUSE.
January 2008.
paper-windhausen.pdf (1.15MB)
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)
Jim Baller and Casey Lide, “Capturing the Promise of Broadband for North
Carolina and America,” Washington, DC, The Baller Herbst Law Group, June
2008.
report-baller-lide.pdf (3MB)
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)
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)
Global Insight, Current and Potential Green Jobs in the U.S. Economy, Lexington,
MA: Global Insight, 2008.
report-global-insight.pdf (790KB)
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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