Your State Needs Broadband Legislative Champions. Just Ask Louis Riggs
In 2016, representatives from the northern region of Missouri met in Brookfield to talk about the issues they were facing. Stakeholders of all kinds—economic developers, USDA employees, elected officials, county commissioners, and mayors—from every county north of I-70 complained bitterly about everything their communities were going without. As the meeting progressed, five topics were written on a board, five ways to find solutions to these communities’ needs. Broadband was listed as number one. The attendees never got to number two.