Last week I heard something about the NTIA/RUS planning to make grant announcements on November 7. That seemed ambitious to me. Turns out it was ambitious. According to Broadcasting & Cable, NTIA head Larry Strickling said Tuesday: “We’re going to take a few more weeks here to get this right…I will not fund a bad application.”

The article goes on to detail a Senate Commerce Committee’s Communications Subcommittee oversight hearing on the NTIA/RUS broadband stimulus funding process. They asked some good questions: Was the definition of remote appropriate? Should the funding come after the National Broadband policy? They aren’t new questions – but they are good.