General Discussion

After the wave of media consolidation in the 1990s and the George W. administration going all out to open the doors to even more, Ed Markey was one of a couple of people in Congress who worked for years to get legislation that would allow local nonprofit organizations to apply for a low power radio license. After many years they got it across the finish line in late 2010. Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act into law in late December, just before the Tea Party folks took power.

Our community has a local nonprofit radio station thanks to Ed Markey (and one more Congressman whose name I'd have to dig into old notes to find). I got to hear him speak in 2005 at a big conference on media reform I attended.

So when emergencies happen here people know they can count on the radio station.

Still doing the right thing!