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The Telecom Digest for Sat, 07 Mar 2020
Volume 39 : Issue 53 : "text" format

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Hawaii: Cell tower permits denied for AT&T projects in Kurtistown, HPPModerator
Staff of Delaware Online & News Journal move to unionize Moderator
History of Postal TelegraphHAncock4
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200306170415.GA23552@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:04:15 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Hawaii: Cell tower permits denied for AT&T projects in Kurtistown, HPP By Michael Brestovansky Tempers and temperatures ran high at a Windward Planning Commission meeting that ended with two proposed cellphone towers in Puna being denied use permits. https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2020/03/06/hawaii-news/cell-tower-permits-denied-for-att-projects-in-kurtistown-hpp/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200306185205.GA24201@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 18:52:05 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Staff of Delaware Online & News Journal move to unionize March 4, 2020 - The staff of Delaware Online and Delaware News Journal said Monday they are forming a unit of the NewsGuild-CWA to preserve the quality of their coverage and to fight for the future of their newsroom. Nearly 70 percent of newsroom staff completed union authorization cards indicating support for the Delaware News Guild. https://newsguild.org/for-the-future-of-their-newsroom-staff-of-delaware-online-news-journal-move-to-unionize/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <36a63a12-1031-485b-8725-10185f7868a4@googlegroups.com> Date: 5 Mar 2020 11:31:28 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: History "Postal Telegraph" Until WW II, there was a second telegraph company in the United States, known as Postal Telegraph. (They had nothing to do with the post office, just took the name to sound cool). They were a smaller outfit, but in competition with Western Union. Here is an ad (two pages) https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1929-06/page/n75/mode/2up They ran into financial trouble and merged with Western Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Telegraph_Company WU's well respected president, Walter P. Marshall, was originally a PT employee. As an aside, there was another telephone company, Keystone Telephone, that competed directly with the Bell System in a few places. They too fell onto hard times and were merged into the Bell System. http://www.keystonetelephone.com/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 07 Mar 2020
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