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Obama may push for rural broadband (Pioneer Press)
Lakewood Health Systems would like to use more telemedicine for its patients, but that would require far faster Internet connections than presently exist in the small town of Staples, Minn., where the clinic is based.

Gordon Brown’s ‘public works’ job plan doesn’t add up (Socialist Worker)
Gordon Brown pledged this week that up to 100,000 jobs could be created by planned public works in the coming years. The government insists that a £10 billion capital programme – including the acceleration of existing plans – will help alleviate rising unemployment.

Faster Internet could speed up Sauk County (The Sauk Prairie Eagle)
Help might be on the way for rural parts of Sauk County with no access to high-speed Internet service.County officials are exploring the possibility of allowing Internet service providers to tap into the county's network of first responder radio towers. That could allow providers to offer wireless Internet service in areas that are covered by the towers.The county board's economic development ...