The long-held dream of liberal Madison bureaucrats is to build a costly city-owned broadband internet infrastructure. That dream died at a recent meeting of the city’s Digital Technology Committee. Several years of shoe leather reporting and analysis by MacIver – along with cold, hard fiscal reality – forced officials to shelve the $173 million boondoggle. Read More MacIver News Minute: Madison Broadband Boondoggle Pronounced Dead
Broadband boondoggles litter the big government landscape. All across the country, cities have tried to build their own high-speed internet infrastructures only to fail spectacularly, and taxpayers have paid the price. Will city leaders in Madison learn the lesson these other cities didn’t as they pursue their own fiber optic flop? Read More MacIver News Minute: Will Madison Learn from the Broadband Failures of Others?