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• Boston votes on Tuesday. Today, the Boston Herald provides two potential campaign issues for voters. Michael Flaherty blames Mayor Thomas M. Menino for the lack of Verizon FiOS service in Boston while Menino blames Verizon. Flaherty blames Mayor Menino for a lack of available financing needed to complete work at the unfinished Filene’s site at Downtown Crossing.

NYC is going all FiOS, but Boston's getting left in the fiber-optic wayside. ArsTechnica opines that Mayor Menino's desire (which the Globe supports) to tax telecom companies like Verizon for the infrastructures they establish here may be keeping the city a few steps behind when it comes to connectedness. There may be other factors at work, too: though you'd think a city would be easy to wire due to its density, the Globe points out that cities also have a lot more problems to deal with: faulty or outdated infrastructure is common, as is landlord resistance. Verizon media relations dude Phil Santoro confirms that the company is committed to bringing FiOS to Boston, but couldn't give a timeline. We imagine FiOs will eventually make it up here, but whether its arrival will be affordable remains to be seen. In the meantime, we'll have plenty of opportunities to eat donuts (ordered in semi-high-tech fashion) while we wait. more ›