For years, I have read in The Richmond News how Emanuel Cleaver II is bringing broadband to rural Ray County. Where is it? I haven’t seen it. It’s not available where I live, right in the heart of Ray County. There needs to be an understanding of what rural means to Ray County residents and what rural means to big-city politicians like Emanuel Cleaver. To Emanuel Cleaver, small towns constitute rural America such that, if highspeed internet is available in Richmond or Excelsior Springs, high-speed internet has been brought to rural Ray County. The folks living on farms outside of the small towns don’t constitute enough votes for a big-city politician to worry about. There also needs to be an understanding of what high-speed internet really means. I have Hughes Net satellite internet. They promote the 10-megabit-per-second (Mbps) speed as high speed. First, 10 Mbps is not really 10 Mbps. That is the maximum download speed, not the typical or average speed, which is much less, or the…