Broadband hogwash in the NC legislature

Good piece on the challenges of rural broadband in the News and Observer.

I didn't realize that NC beat the Roosevelt administration to the punch, passing a state rural electrification bill a month before the REA came into being. That proud legacy notwithstanding, the state legislature is now weighing a bill that would place all kinds of obstacles in the path of public broadband networks (and presumably public-private ventures by default).