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GCPUD Anti-Trust Documentation
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·Federal Court Complaint Alleging Antitrust on the part of GCPUD and NoaNet
·First , second, and
third pages of report from Director Williams explaining how the District will continue to "enable Benton to do what we cannot". Most of the people named in the email covering this report still work at GCPUD.
·District Memo discussing methods of helping subsidize retail video providers in competition with Northland Cable
·GCPUD report discussing various methods of interfering in Grant County's retail telecommunications market
·Sworn testimony by former GCPUD Manager Don Godard in current litigation in which he discusses why and how they helped Benton REA
·Link to white paper that is the genesis for PUD subsidiary NoaNet
·Report to Godard where local service providers lowering prices in December of 2000 are described with "our ploy with Benton has worked out exactly as hoped"
·Instructions from GCPUD Director Williams to staffer who is supposed to "steal" District equipment from Titan installation and make that equipment available to private service provider NWTEL.
·Much more to come
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GCPUD Activity in Politics
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These documents show three versions of a political paper written by a person under contract to the GCPUD and edited and saved to District's computer system by GCPUD personnel.
· version 1
· version 2
· final version
· 2004 Contractors
· Details of the prperties of the saved file showing where it is located on the District's network, the author, and who saved it.
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Former Employee Accused of Theft
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·Internal Report attempting to document "theft of services".
· Second Report trying to justify disconnecting the ISP owned by Beckett (the fired employee).
·Letter from GC Undersheriff complaining about lack of cooperation in criminal charges against former employee.
·Letter from GCPUD Manager; golly... we want to cooperate
·PUD Employee Letter regarding accusations.
·PUD Funding Sources for Grand Coulee fiber install.
·PUD Funding Approved for Grand Coulee fiber install.
·PUD Willing to Pay 50% of costs for Grand Coulee fiber install but cannot do the work themselves.
· Hand_written notes obtained from Coe Hutchison's desk indicating some knowledge of "private business" in Grand Coulee fiber install
·Memo informing Hutchison and Williams of Grand Coulee fiber install including use of private company
·PUD Auditor Knew about father/son connections of private company mid-2002
·Coulee Dam knew about fatheer/son connections of private company and didn't care
·PUD Manager in charge of fiber crews says that last 500 feet of fiber on a roll could be made available for Coulee Dam installation
·PUD memo recommending a police investigation regarding Grand Coulee fiber install
·Meeting of PUD Fiber team indicating (page 3, fifth bullet) a knowledge of RBI by name
·Report of meeting between C. Hutchison and K. Justice on 2/5/2003 in which they discuss Resource Business Institute and Steve's actions; inventing some new infractions along the way
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2004 Audit Findings (Draft)
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Windows XP ''user32.dll relocated'' Error
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For those of you who have suddenly noticed that your computer boots with an error telling you that "user32.dll" has been relocated because another file has taken its place, there is now a fix. The problem was that MS prepared a security update that had a mistake in it. This patch should fix it. You may download this patch from Microsoft itself here.
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Posted by SwedChef on Friday, April 06 @ 09:45:49 PDT (492 reads)
(comments? | Score: 3)
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Daylight Savings Time Patches for Windows
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In case you haven't already heard, the USA (and many other countries) will enter daylight savings time (DST) 3 weeks earlier and leave it 1 week later than previous years. So Sunday, March 11th, at some ungodly hour your time will change. However, it's likely that your computer's time won't. And if you are running Windows 98 it's extremely likely it won't. Other versions of MS can be fixed with official updates (although many of you don't bother). So here are links to patches for every version of Windows from 98 onwards. Use these at your own risk, they were not written by MS. If you look hard enough at MS support pages you might find their official versions. The link to the patches along with some other utilities (again, use at your own risk) is here .
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Posted by SwedChef on Thursday, March 08 @ 06:54:39 PST (452 reads)
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Service Providers Sue Grant PUD and NoaNet in Federal Court
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On February 23, 2007 attorneys for four Grant County Internet service providers filed a complaint in Spokane Federal Court alleging that Grant County PUD (GCPUD) and Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) violated federal and state anti-trust laws. The complaint mentions specific actions on the part of GCPUD and NoaNet including illegal funding of private businesses with public funds.
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Posted by SwedChef on Saturday, February 24 @ 09:33:18 PST (498 reads)
(comments? | Score: 3.85)
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GCPUD Activity in Politics
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Sometimes the ability of the Grant County PUD's management to willfully ignore the law is simply breathtaking. Like subsidizing Benton REA with public funds. Or sending $150,000 to VIB for useless software so VIB could pay their Zipp bill (which just happened to total $150k). But a recent treasure-trove of data has given us access to some documents that simply make me sit back and wonder, "what could they have been thinking?" For instance, what would a consultant employed by the District to work on relicensing be doing using District resources to author a document that supports a local political figure? And why would a District Director be editing it?Read more....
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Tom Flint threw a fit recently over a letter-to-the-editor signed by three PUD Commissioners. Flint accused Bill Bjork, Greg Hansen and Randy Allred - who signed the letter - of violating the State Public Meetings Act. That Act simply states that whenever a quorum (majority) of an elected board meets the meeting must be open to the public and some form of record kept. Of course, if a letter is simply circulated, agreed-to, and signed then there is no meeting and no foul. But Flint is in no position to complain about violations of State law. In 2002, while a sitting PUD Commissioner, he sent a letter to a PUD employee asking for "support" for Agfarmation. The letter was accompanied by an invoice which appears to request the third quarterly payment of $3750 which correlates to the salary Flint's wife received as the employee of Agfarmation. Read more....
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