U.S. government cuts off funding to ACORN

As the clock continues to tick as broadband stimulus hopefuls await the outcome of their fate, it is clear that out of the nearly 2,200 applicants, one group has definitely not made the cut.

Applications from the controversial ACORN Institute, which describes itself as a group that uses “research and training to address the problems in low-income communities identified through years of community organizing,” have been deemed “ineligible for funding” by the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration...