You don't have permission to access /Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of Syracuse, has called for a municipal power system to lower electric rates and make a rapid transition to 100% clean, renewable energy. Hawkins also stated his support for a publicly-owned community broadband system (internet, cable TV, phone) to provide faster, lower-cost service than the corporate telecoms have. Hawkins said the city’s sidewalks should also be municipalized, with the Department of Public Works taking responsibility for sidewalk snow removal and maintenance like it is for city streets. “Public utilities are the public avenues of private commerce. Publicly-owned utilities will lower the cost of living and doing business in the city and improve the quality of our infrastructure,” Hawkins said. on this server.