Friday, July 10, 2009

It's go time for the stimulus package | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com

I wrote a post last week that noted that planning for the stimulus package is hitting its crescendo. Ars Technica fills out some of the details of the timeline.

The story says that the schedule is backed to February 17, when the FCC must send a National Broadband Plan to Congress. The last official day for public comments is July 21 -- a scant two weeks from now -- though it is likely that more will be read beyond that date. In parallel, the departments of Commerce and Agriculture will be accepting applications on their part of the stimulus package from July 14 to August 14. It’s a confusing and apparently inefficient scenario...