Wonder what changed their minds?

Google, that is.  After first having spurned the bigger Kansas City in favor of its more diminutive sister to the west, they now want to build out their gigabit network on the Missouri side anyway.

Curious in that one of the reasons they gave for going with KCK initially was that the electric utility whose poles they'd need to string fiber on over there-the Board of Public Utilities-was municipally owned, in contrast to investor-owned Kansas City Power and Light.

You don't suppose that feelers were put out to some of the also-rans after the big March announcement along the lines of, "Well, if we could perhaps work out something like the same deal with you that we got from KCK..." now, do you?  I guess if there are any more expansion announcements elsewhere in the coming weeks, we'll know.

In the end, of course, it doesn't matter.  There are clearly neighborhoods in KCMO where the need for something like this is every bit as great as it is anywhere in Wyandotte County.  So start pulling the wire and digging the trenches already!  The sooner the better.