Peggy Timmerman: Rural business owners need high-speed Internet

Wisconsin State Journal

A recent letter bemoaning the use of tax dollars as stimulus funds to provide high-speed Internet in rural Marquette and Adams counties is a perfect example of the rural-urban divide in this country.

Unfortunately, our government was slow to realize that Internet access should have been regulated and treated as a utility from the outset. (Remember the Rural Electrification Program?)

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