Taken for Granted: Still a Long Way to Go for Rural Broadband
Andy Lewis is not the kind of guy to look a gift horse in the mouth.
But the UW-Extension professor takes a realistic view of the recently announced federal grant to expand fiber optic broadband in Wisconsin. While he's pleased the state will get $28.7 million in federal stimulus money to expand broadband infrastructure in rural schools and libraries, he knows it amounts to a down payment.
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Playing It Cooley
As reported in the pages of In Business magazine.
City economic development director worries about fiscal sustainability in an era of stiff suburban competition.
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RIP Congressman Murtha, and Good Riddance
The death of an elected official is usually time to bestow praise for the worthy things he or she has done, but in the case or Marine-slandering, pork-pounding, debt-piling Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha, I'll make an exception.
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Proposed Beer Tax Hard to Quaff Down
Give State Representative Terese Berceau credit for having some guts. No political radar, but plenty of guts.
We're in the beginning stages of an election year in which State Assembly and State Senate seats, not to mention the governorship, are up for grabs. Our economy is struggling to gain traction. About the last thing incumbents should be doing any more of is proposing more tax increases, especially on an iconic industry that employs thousands.
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