If you want to look at even more dysfunction turn your attention to pondering why lovely Seattle was overlooked and was even cut off of Google's map (okay that was most likely just scaling).

Gigabit Squared seems like it was destined to fail the second it was announced, and where are they now? We have all that fiber already in place and no one to use it. Could Seattle not sell it to Google? Some of kind of partnership? Something?

The last I read about what the Mayor is planning on doing is try to make the fiber initiative into a public utility[1].

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xtsjb/why_i_oppose...