After headache and heartburn, a gentler broadband stimulus program

Many of you involved in the broadband stimulus process, and those sitting on the sidelines, have had moments where it seemed dealing with the rules of the game was like suffering the death of a thousand cuts. Today opens a 15-day window of opportunity for you to influence a kinder, gentler set of broadband stimulus rules.

Last week, the National Telecommunications Information Administration and the Rural Utilities Services announced that there is only to be one more round of broadband funding. This probably doesn’t surprise people since it's been hinted at a bunch over the past month that the agencies were considering consolidating the final two funding rounds...