Kim Hixson News Release on Rural Broadband

Rep. Hixson is one of the features speakers at tomorrow's WLA/WEMTA Library Legislative Day. Link to The Wheeler Report.

Excerpt:
State Rep. Kim Hixson (D-43rd Assembly District) sent a letter to Senator Russ Feingold and Senator Herb Kohl on Friday stressing the need for rural broadband funding in the Federal Economic Stimulus Bill currently being considered in Congress.

“Coming from a rural area, I fear that in this day and age, rural communities will be marginalized if left out of efforts currently being considered by the United States Congress to extend broadband Internet access,” Hixson said. “Many of my constituents of the 43rd Assembly District tend to have a much lower level of access to broadband Internet. This can and must change.”