It's all well and good that President-Elect Obama wants high-speed Internet connectivity to be part of the economic stimulus package. The goal, he said in a speech today (Jan. 8), is, "expanding broadband lines across America, so that a small business in a rural town can connect and compete with their counterparts anywhere in the world."
This isn't an abstract notion, or one to be simply glossed over by numbers. Here's Will Gilmer, a farmer in Lamar County, Alabama,
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