For a brief shining moment we were all connected What could you do with $100 million? What could you do with $100 million in every state, plus more for poor or rural states, for broadband infrastructure and programs to reach every child trying to join Zoom calls with their teacher, to connect every harried parent trying to do to their job virtually while monitoring the home schooling in the kitchen, to bring a doctor to every senior or medically vulnerable person afraid to leave their house for fear of contracting COVID-19? Elin Swanson Katz That was the joyful, wonderful question those of us in the broadband world were asking ourselves for about 48 hours last week. After months of speculation about infrastructure money in the next stimulus bill, and weeks of rumor about a really big tranche of money for states to spend bringing high-speed broadband to every corner of every community, we saw it: a Wednesday night draft online of the Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020, the stimulus bill being debated in Congress, that contained $6.25 billion to bridge the Digital Divide and enable remote learning, telework, telehealth, and other essential activities during the Pandemic. Every state and U.S. Tribal Governments would receive an initial $100 million in block grants to use with wide discretion for connecting its citizens. There would be more to come, allocated based on population, number of rural consumers, and number of individuals living in poverty.