Senator Cramer’s Office of Rural Broadband Act is the latest effort to coordinate rural broadband planning and policy. Coordination – or lack thereof – has been one of the major hurdles in broadband deployment and in crafting a national rural broadband strategy more generally.
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Weekly Digest
March 11-15, 2019
Digital Beat
Op-ed
March 12, 2019
Journalism is fast becoming a vast wasteland. Newsrooms across the land are hollowed out, or in many cases shuttered. And the internet, which was supposed to correct all this, has thus far demonstrably failed the task.
Analysis
March 6, 2019
The connective tissue that unites Brandeis’s view of legislative action, the creation and enforcement of antitrust law, and the use of sectoral regulation is the willingness to experiment. We are well-acquainted with Brandeis’s invocation of the “laboratories of the states” but his reliance on experimentation, what we might today call innovation, runs much deeper than that well-known aphorism.
Publications
October 29, 2018
September 26, 2018