Should Parks Have Wifi?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 07. 8.09
The best entertainment comes from Minnesota; first Michele Bachmann, then Al Franken, and now State Parks with wireless internet. Evidently "The effort to boost state park use came after a survey confirmed what parks officials had been suspecting for years, that the number of young adults who used state parks was dropping" and they think WiFi by the lake will bring them back. But one writer thinks "state officials are trying too hard to please those who are addicted to their iPhones, laptops and gas-powered generators."
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