There’s nothing quite like listening to bureaucrats and corporate representatives bicker while something of vital importance to ordinary citizens hangs in the balance.

But that’s just what happened Tuesday when West Virginia Public Service Chairwoman Charlotte Lane had to call out electric utilities, internet service providers and state officials for dragging their feet on establishing rules for expanding fiber broadband on existing power poles.

Though a group of representatives for Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power, MonPower and Potomac Edison, several internet service providers and trade organizations, telecommunications representatives, and state officials turned in a report back in January, it turns out they couldn’t actually agree on recommendations.

Ronay Tenney, the director o

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