Interesting release from Connect Arkansas. A new survey says 68 percent of Arkansans now have high-speed Internet access at home or work, up from 42 percent in 2007.

Who will be the Ben Hur of the 21st Century — the last Arkansas home to get Internet access? (The Newton County community was the last to receive electricity in Arkansas.) Maybe in Snowball? The day is coming.

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And, relative to a subject mentioned the other day, the percentage of homes receiving a dead-tree newspaper will keep dropping no matter what. It’s time to put legal notices, ordinances, foreclosures and all the rest on-line and save taxpayers and everybody else a ton of money.

The survey shows about half of Arkansans still view computer access a luxury or unnecessary, but that, too, will change.

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