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Opinion: Rural broadband goals shelved for backroom politics

Speaker of the Colorado state House, KC Becker, a Democrat, recently appointed Jon Becker, a Republican and no relation, to the Broadband Deployment Board without interviewing any other candidates.  Brian Martin, interim director of the Broadband Fund confirmed Becker’s appointment. Becker’s appointment matters because this 16-person board, an arm of the state Department of Regulatory […]