VAN of Vermont is quietly transitioning into summer. Policy activity, like the lawsuit from Comcast, is in a wait-and-see period. VAN uses Slack (slack.com) as their communications/forum tool. Check the VAN website here or contact VAN’s representative to the Northeast board. NHCCM of New Hampshire have had good attendance at the member meetings with a […]
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A Connecticut scholar at the Cape Cod co...
Our state affiliates in the Northeast were each offered one scholarship to our recent regional conference in Falmouth, Massachusetts. One of the requirements for the scholarship is an essay. Sandra Austin Goldstein was the scholarship recipient from Connecticut ACM; the following is just one paragraph from her letter to that board: I found it difficult […]
FCC and Closed Captioning
At the Our Town conference in Boston last month, and in follow-up discussions online and by telephone, Alliance members and allies discussed the FCC’s Second Report and Order on Closed Captioning, released last February. Connecticut ACM explained to their members and friends this way. How will it work for PEG people in your states?
What’s New in the Northeast?
At the monthly meeting/conference calls, members of the ACM Northeast Board exchange news from our states, much of it about policy matters at state level. ACM-NE can’t work on policy at a regional level, with all the variation among the states, but we all learn from each other how things work and might work for […]
Connecting in Connecticut – April 2016
Connecticut ACM has managed to hold two face-to-face meetings in the past 7 months. In September, Citizens TV in New Haven hosted several PEG people for lunch and a tour of their facility (recently converted from a veterinary hospital). Over lunch they discussed their mutual problem of insufficient funding and how to approach the legislature. Trying to recover the PEGPETIA fund […]