Information Superhighway to Nowhere - WSJ

The District of Columbia proposed to spend $70,000 per location to connect a shed, a nonexistent building and an open field to the internet. - Arielle Roth

• When the District of Columbia’s city government proposed its broadband expansion plan to the Trump administration, it sought nearly $4 million to connect 55 physical addresses—about $70,000 per location—in one of the most broadband-saturated cities in America.
• Today, we’re approving $0 in federal broadband funds for D.C. 
• That reduction didn’t come from a new law or funding formula. It was thanks to old-fashioned on-the-ground oversight—in this case, in snow boots...