A fresh breeze came out of Lansing last week when the Senate approved Ken Sikkema's proposal to help broadband across the fabled last mile in Michigan.
It's been almost 30 years since the first articles came out, gushing about the impending third wiring of America and all the Wonders To Come in the Fiber Optic Age.
But the electronic Wave of the Future went aground on the beach of the so-called last mile — the expensive distance between high-speed Internet providers and most households.