The Wise Economy Telescope, third week of May 2021

The old ways might be the new ways, after all.

They’re coming…. us Midwesterners are facing the beginning of the Cicada Onslaught. The buggers could have stayed in the ground for another 10 ot 12 years, IMHO. Of course, then they might be the size of a VW bus.

It’s a good day to try to think about something else…

The way I’ve done the last couple of Telescopes has been great in many respects, but it’s also been a challenge to keep all the links straight. So I’m tweaking the approach a bit again. Please let me know whether you like it better like this, or with the link going to a second page and a longer article.

Broadband transforms opportunity in rural Kentucky

This isn’t the kind of professional reporting that I usually prefer to share, but the story that this opinion article tells is important for all of us to know and think about, because it’s about a hugely important impact that we might not ever hear about otherwise. If you wonder why rural broadband is so vital — and so incredibly hard to get — this will open your e…