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Politico: Many rural broadband projects not complete

Under the Recovery Act, the Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service was supposed to bring high-speed Internet service to rural areas, but many of those projects are not complete and people are still lacking service, Politico reported today.

Politico — Wired to fail: How a little known agency mishandled several billion dollars of stimulus money trying to expand broadband coverage to rural communities