John Locke Foundation President John Hood questions Salisbury’s plans for a government-owned and -operated fiber-optic cable system. His concerns mirror those presented in the JLF Regional Brief, Salisbury’s Fiber-Optic Cable System: Another corporate welfare project paid for by average taxpayers. Hood offered these comments for Stuart Watson’s August 11, 2009, report for WCNC.
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