Stimulus money unlikely for city Internet plans | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/03/2009

Congress last winter voted $7 billion in federal recovery money to build broadband Internet for people who aren't online and for places where service is patchy. Philadelphia rushed to grab a chunk.

"We reached out," formed a coalition of city agencies, nonprofit groups and "universal Internet" activists, and wrote proposals, the city's chief technology officer, Allan Frank, told me last week...