Editorial: Get going on broadband Times Union Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail Paul Hoovler from the Mid Hudson Cable Company installs cable for high-speed internet broadband in Prattsville, Greene County, on August 14, 2007. Times Union Photo by Steve JacobsDG THE ISSUE: THE STAKES: ---- If the need for universal, affordable high-speed internet service wasn’t apparent before the COVID-19 pandemic, it surely is now. So why would Gov. Andrew Cuomo hold up a bipartisan legislative proposal to do one of the most fundamental things that needs to get done to achieve it — find out where high-speed internet really is and is not available in New York?