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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Full study at: <a href="http://www.bbcmag.com/2016mags/Nov_Dec/BBC_Nov16_TheKeyIngredient.pdf">http://www.bbcmag.com/2016mags/Nov_Dec/BBC_Nov16_TheKeyIngredient.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(don’t be modest, Steve!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Masha Zager<br></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Editor-in-Chief, Broadband Communities<br><a href="mailto:masha@bbcmag.com"><span style='color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'>masha@bbcmag.com</span></a><br>518-943-0374<br><a href="http://www.bbcmag.com"><span style='color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'>www.bbcmag.com</span></a><br>www.twitter.com/bbcmag<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces@mailman.dcn.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Ross<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 23, 2016 8:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tom Johnson<br><b>Cc:</b> lindam.trujillo@state.nm.us; Alan M. Webber; 1st-Mile-NM; Carmen López<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [1st-mile-nm] BBC_Nov16_BandwidthHawk.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Here's the link to the opinion piece:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.bbcmag.com/2016mags/Nov_Dec/BBC_Nov16_BandwidthHawk.pdf">http://www.bbcmag.com/2016mags/Nov_Dec/BBC_Nov16_BandwidthHawk.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The full study -- latest of three using our database of all US counties -- is also up on <a href="http://www.bbcmag.com">www.bbcmag.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Online, it takes up 11 magazine pages. we only put the summary (3 pages) in the printed magazine.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>Steve Ross<br>Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (<a href="http://www.bbcmag.com" target="_blank">www.bbcmag.com</a>)<br>201-456-5933 mobile<br>707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice<br>editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn)<br>editorsteve1 (Twitter)<br><a href="mailto:steve@bbcmag.com" target="_blank">steve@bbcmag.com</a><br><a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com" target="_blank">editorsteve@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Tom Johnson <<a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com" target="_blank">tom@jtjohnson.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>My colleague Steve Ross writes....<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The nation's newspaper and broadcast stenographers, er, reporters have decided that Democrats lost the presidential election by ignoring the needs of rural America/ There has been a smattering of opinion pieces saying the same thing, although not in-depth studies, put out by Brookings and other august institutions. But in my corner of the world -- broadband deployment -- I see mainly Republicans obstructing Democrats. And as I have been reporting for two years, lack of broadband access in rural areas is responsible for at least a quarter and probably more than half of all rural population loss since 2010. Here's my opinion piece on this, just up at Broadband Communities Magazine. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>1st-mile-nm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a><br><a href="http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm" target="_blank">http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>