How broadband stimulus could help Michigan: Talking to Merit Network

Since the financial markets collapsed late last summer, no state in the Union – not even New York, home to Wall Street itself – has received more scrutiny from politicians and media than Michigan, home of the “big three” auto makers, eventual seekers of taxpayer funds.

That scrutiny yielded some hard-to-swallow facts for a state that long has relied on and answered the need for a strong manufacturing base...