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Rural broadband stimulus program faces increased scrutiny

By Chase Martyn 4/14/09

We reported last month that a USDA program to expand rural broadband access was set to receive billions of stimulus dollars despite its less-than-perfect record of effectively spending money, revealed by an Inspector General’s report.  Undeserving suburban communities were getting loads of money to expand broadband to places that already had it, and deeply rural [...]

Rural broadband access not an end in itself

By Chase Martyn 2/9/09

As the idea of expanding broadband internet access to rural parts of the country gets batted around think tanks and congressional offices, one consultant with experience training large companies’ employees to use the web says the access alone is not enough.  From a smart op-ed published last week on the rural policy site Daily Yonder, [...]

Slow traffic on Iowa’s Internet

By John Deeth 8/15/08

If the Internet is the information superhighway, then Iowa’s traffic is stuck behind a slow moving, two-lanes-wide combine.

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