Doing more research for the March eNews, I learned that Jack Geller, from the Center for Rural Policy and Development, will soon publish a new report on broadband in rural Minnesota in about a month or so. Apparently he spoke to the House Telecommunications Regulation and Infrastructure Division in mid-February. You can learn more about it on the MN House or Representative web site.
This information led to a great phone call with Jack who was gracious enough to give me quite a preview of the upcoming report, which I am trying to summarize for an upcoming eNews article.

[...] was lucky enough to talk to Jack about this last month (read more here) but I was interested to learn in this article that in 2006 as much as 70 percent of rural [...]
By: Jack Geller Op-Ed in Hutchinson Leader « Blandin on Broadband on March 31, 2007
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[...] Geller gave us a little sneak preview of the report a couple of weeks ago – but it was still fun to see the final. Here are the aspects that I found [...]
By: 2006 Minnesota Internet Study Now Online « Blandin on Broadband on April 11, 2007
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