Message-ID: <20210801000908.C89C57B1@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 00:09:08 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: CWA Bargaining Update
Frontier Communications
CWA members at Frontier Communications in West Virginia ratified a
2-year contract extension agreement with the company this week. The
current contract would have expired on August 7, 2021.
https://cwa-union.org/news/bargaining-update-166
Message-ID: <20210801003103.DE5407B1@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 00:31:03 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: New Report Shows Impact of Political Spending on Broadband
Buildout
A new report from Common Cause that was developed in partnership with
CWA examines how lobbying and political spending have shaped the
digital divide.
https://cwa-union.org/news/new-report-shows-impact-of-political-spending-on-broadband-buildout
Message-ID: <20210801152451.13006.qmail@submit.iecc.com>
Date: 1 Aug 2021 15:24:51 -0400
From: "David B. Horvath, CCP" <dhorvath@cobs.com>
Subject: Re: Hidden Costs and Flawed Training Plague the V.A.'s
Huge Software Upgrade
At 05:30 AM 8/1/2021, "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> wrote:
>Moderators are supposed to be neutral. I try to be objective.
>
>But this report burns my butt, and tha's puttig it mildly. There is
>$16 Billion dollars of the taxpayer's money gone and nothing to show
>for it.
>
>I served in Vietnam. There are a lot of Vietnam veterans committing
>suicide, and even more of us wasting away from the "side-effects" of
>toxic chemicals like Agent Orange. They need help, not brazenly
>ill-designed and obviously incompetently written software that you and
>I are paying for.
>
>The Trump administration wrote the checks. If anyone wanted concrete
>evidence that the ex-president is a "Useful idiot" (Vladimir Putin's
>quote) suited only to respond to the flattery of his sycophants and
>the machinations of corporate hucksters, this is it.
>
>That, of course, is my personal opinion. Now, I'll go back to being
>neutral again.
>
>Bill Horne
>Moderator
Given that this has been a 10 year problem (and reported repeatedly
over the years), I doubt that blame can be placed on Trump. Nor on Biden.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/veterans-affairs/2021/04/va-faces-pivotal-moment-with-ehr-after-months-of-lingering-usability-problems/
- David
