{"id":806,"date":"2005-06-12T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2005-06-12T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2005-06-12T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2005-06-12T13:51:10","slug":"caddo-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Caddo Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent last weekend in northeast Texas on Caddo Lake<\/a>. Cypress, blue herons, snowy egrets and turtles, it’s a landscape that is common in next-door Louisiana but unique in Texas.
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\nWe were staying in Uncertain, Texas, a town of about 150 who mostly host tourists or avoid life elsewhere. The town was incorporated in 1961 because people wanted to drink while fishing. The surrounding area was “dry”, so a group of households decided to form a town to vote in the ability to drink.
\nWe were hosted by the mayor of Uncertain and his wife; they and friends from the area sat around and told tall tales, in a style that comes from the culture before radio, television, and internet.
\nUncertain is about 30 miles south of Atlanta and Queen City, which are unwired by the Northeast Texas Wireless Initiative<\/a>. Lynn Jones of NETWI joined us for the fish fry.
\nThe region has been a hotbed of city-supported wireless. Underserved by incumbents, they’re taking local initiative to bring broadband to town, and were very active in the fight against the Texas municipal network ban.
\nThe mayor of Uncertain was ambivalent about bringing wireless high-speed internet, and I can see why. People come to be off the grid.
\nThe Caddo Lake community been fighting the next town over, Marshall, pop. 25,000 which wants to siphon more water from the lake for a power plant and its growing population. The threat prompted the local people to organize; the conservation movement is championed<\/a> by Don Henley of Eagles fame, who grew up in nearby Linden TX (another municipal wireless site).
\nA major water bill, SB3, which would have added protections for “environmental services”, preserving water<\/a> for rivers and estuaries, failed to pass the Texas legislature this past session. It passed the Senate and house committee, but timed out on the last day to be voted on the house floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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