EAGLE-Net needs to open up its nest

Apparently it’s easy to forget that taking money from the federal government – or any government – means you’re taking money from American taxpayers: you, me, your neighbor. It’s our money and therefore we have a right to know how it’s being spent, whether it’s being spent properly, and whether that spending is achieving its stated public goal.

But EAGLE-Net, the nonprofit alliance formed with federal funds during the Great Recession and charged with building a broadband network for underserved and rural Colorado communities, clearly has forgotten the public nature of its mission and its money.

When Colorado auditors and Colorado legislators…