Part one of term paper
A news article appearing on pages one and two of the business section of the February 28, 1999 issue of the Des Moines Register explored the issue of municipal cable and phone companies being created throughout Iowa. Since 1994, thirty-eight Iowa cities have voted to create their own communications companies. They did so in an effort to pro ...

Part two of term paper
... of the first Iowa communities to vote to establish a municipal communications company was Hawarden, a small town along the Missouri River. Poor service such as lines failing during intense rainstorms was enough of a reason to city officials for Hawarden to begin building it’s own communications system. The Iowa Telephone association, however, objected to this motion and eventually took the case all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court. When the case was reviewed in October of 1998, state judg ...