Imagine my surprise as I sat down with my breakfast and the Style section this morning to find a comic strip about telecommunications policy! Candorville, created by Darrin Bell, is taking on BellSouth for its efforts to shut down a community Internet project being run by the city of New Orleans. The community network provides free wireless Internet access to the small businesses and residents who are struggling to get back on their feet - some of whom haven't even had their land line telephone service restored since Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast seven months ago. (Read more about it in USA Today.)

We can't post the actual strips here for copyright reasons, but I strongly encourage you to check them out.

http://www.comics.com/wash/candorville/archive/can dorville-20060406.html http://www.comics.com/wash/candorville/archive/can dorville-20060405.html

Kudos to Darrin Bell for using his talents to raise the profile of the issues that Common Cause cares so deeply about - access to information, voting rights, an ethical and accountable government.