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Private sector experience should be considered a plus, indeed requisite, rather than treated as a contamination when it comes to appointed government offices.

The so-called Market Place Fairness Act is being rammed through the U.S. Senate, intentionally bypassing the regular order, proceeding to a full Senate debate without any committee hearing or mark-up, so that a variety of important constitutional questions and concerns can be ignored.

If the FCC is going to be involved in mhealth, and broader health tech, expansion, then the agency must get out of its own way.

The threat of foreign governments taking over the Internet is real, and the U.S. government is helping those efforts.

Investment in tomorrow’s broadband infrastructure does not require federal stimulus, but rather requires elected officials and regulators to ensure the appropriate conditions for investment. 

An understanding of basic finance and math seem to be beyond the grasp of some broadband industry critics.

Congress and the White House pursued getting more people health insurance when they should have been removing barriers to better health.

The lodestone should be indicating danger—expansive taxation authority because of radically expansive government undermining our Union.

The administration’s effort to push electronic health records may have postponed their adoption for years.

The history of the cable industry is one of innovation, risk taking and investment. The proper reward for all the risk is best left to the marketplace.