OPINION by Steve Rogers Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley made a splash in early 2018 when he and his two fellow PSC members completed a six-month blitz by getting the Legislature to approve a bill authorizing the state’s rural electric cooperatives to get into the broadband business. During the PR campaign, Presley went county by county, almost community by community, talking to anyone and everyone who would listen about what high-speed Internet would mean to rural areas – more and better jobs, education, modern living. Presley packaged it with a series of tests designed to illustrate just...