WASHINGTON — If Jacquelyne Leffler lived a few miles down the road, it would be easy to connect to the internet. Instead, it’s a daily struggle that impedes her business.
“I have horrible internet. I sit approximately 10 miles from fiber in every direction and I don’t think it’ll ever come to us,” said Leffler, who runs a cattle farm outside Americus, a Kansas town of roughly 900 people.
Leffler and many other Americans in rural communities have been waiting for years for broadband service, a need that neither political party has yet delivered for her area.
