Surely you understand the lack of real news reported, and the public's lack of interest in it,is by design?

No doubt KS has a few warheads aimed our way. Aircraft mfg. Oil, Natural Gas production, a national bio lab to be constructed here. Damn I better move to Hawaii. Please don't judge all Kansans by the actions of the so called conservative republicans that reside here

Here's the problem a lot of use have with NAIS.The NAIS was created as a "scientic" alternative to athe "unscientic" practice of actually testing the cattle for BSE. NAIS would effectively prohibit smaller prohibit those like myself with the capability to raise 1 or calves to slaughter weight. As it stands today NAIS applies to all live stock, even a flock of laying hens. Yes tags are cheap, readers and proprietary software aren't. The cost of BSE testing or even NAIS can be spread across producer, commodity trader, processor, retail chain, and consumer. Problem is no one wants to pay there share for a safe food supply. In the end the multinational corporations are going to control the food supply from insemination to your mouth.

Fortunately "buying" spectrum, appears to be more akin to leasing.

How we use or abuse public lands today will affect how future generations. The RF spectrum can't be used or abused into extension, as far as I know anyway. The government has never denied access to the RF spectrum. A "free for all" use of the spectrum would render that public resource useless. What one could call denying access to a public resource could also be called resource management. Not everyone is going to be happy about how it's managed.

Public Safety agencies, PBS, and Amateur Radio will have free access to spectrum. The CB and FRS radio services will al have free access to the piddling slices of spectrum. The BS of Spectrum auctions wil end, to be replaced by competative bidding for, for profit commercial users of spectrum. Commercial broadcasters would be required, to allow any party able to purchase air time to do so, at the same price as all other parties, and the time slots will rotate so all have access to choice time slots. Understanding guard bands are for, experimentation would begin to determine if low power, narrow bandwidth signals could use them without undue interference to the, primary users.

Hopefully Google's grab for spectrum will end up like UPS's spectrum grab, ending up with handfuls of dust, because others shot IPS out of the saddle when it was all over with.