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- From: kenk@sdc.com (Ken Konecki)
- Subject: Re: Casion--Vote (really chicago and $$)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.211820.6572@sdc.com>
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- References: <72770904619160@skeeve.mcs.anl.gov> <930124948@drktowr.chi.il.us>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:18:20 GMT
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- In article <930124948@drktowr.chi.il.us> magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:
- >3) You can't just
- >plop an antenna anywhere - the EPA would have a seizure. You think
- >dangerous EMF comes off high voltage lines? Stand next to a 150,000 watt
- >transmitter and you'll get an E-burn you'll never forget.
-
- 150,000 watts? Not in the U.S. 50,000 is as high as it gets.
- In any event, the EPA has very little say in where an antenna
- gets placed.
-
- >In other words, the best location for an antenna at the
- >time the stations were set up was in Chicago, and for the most part
- >there weren't any suburbs to reach (except for like Aurora and a few
- >others that were around before Chicago).
-
- The suburbs have been around much longer than television and
- radio. When television came along there was definitely a
- suburban audience to reach. Chicago was chosen because it happens
- to be at the center of the circle.
-
- >Now who has to provide the
- >plowing and crap like I mentioned before so the stock broker can
- >get to work downtown? Yep. The city.
-
- Bzzt. Guess again. The majority of suburban commuters who work
- downtown come via the RTA which is subsidized by suburban tax money.
- Of those that don't, only a small percentage of time is spent on roads
- that fall under the jurisdiction of the city. The Feds pay to plow the
- expressways and U.S. highways, the state for state roads, county for
- county roads, etc.
- --
- Ken Konecki
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- "Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery"
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