Michael Edward Miller
Some Tennessee Residents Lack Broadband. Could the TN Valley Authority Become Their New ISP?
Former Gov Phil Bredesen (D-TN) — and his Republican rival for the US Senate, House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) — have both been talking up plans to expand broadband access in rural places. But they're pitching two very different solutions. Bredesen's idea is proposing legislation that would allow the Tennessee Valley Authority to get rural residents hooked up.