MinnPost reports on Blandin’s rural broadband work

MinnPost republishes a post from Minnov8 about the Blandin Foundation initiative to increase rural broadband access, a top issue here at MinnesotaBrown. This post gives a great idea of what Blandin is doing but leaves me with the same feeling I had after I learned that Hibbing voted down Fibernet. We aren’t getting anywhere until our local, state and national political leaders begin to talk about rural broadband as a crucial element of economic development for the 21st century. Expensive, yes. But the fight for economic survival in the future will occur online. Slow internet will ensure the demise of rural economies. This is unacceptable.