贝希尔签行政令 改组州宽带网络KentuckyWired管理委员会
肯塔基州州长安迪·贝希尔本周三（10月14日）在法兰克福签署行政令，改组负责监管州宽带网络KentuckyWired的管理机构——肯塔基通信网络管理局（KCNA）的董事会。据州内媒体报道，贝希尔援引州最高法院今年6月的一项裁决作为依据，主张该裁决使州议会今年通过的众议院第314号法案失效；该法案曾将董事会多数席位由州长任命改为共和党籍州宪法官员任命。贝希尔的行政令将董事会恢复至该法案通过前的构成。
共和党方面此前表示，314号法案旨在加强对该网络的监督。KentuckyWired网络由数百英里光纤组成，为全州每个县治提供高速互联网连接，其运营伙伴Accelecom（Open Fiber Kentucky公司）与州政府的合同纠纷诉讼已持续多年。
贝希尔在法兰克福联邦巡回法院法官菲利普·谢泼德周四上午就州政府与Accelecom诉讼举行听证会之前签署了该行政令；该案定于11月开庭审理。
Beshear Issues Executive Order Overhauling KentuckyWired Board
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear issued an executive order on Wednesday, October 14, in Frankfort overhauling the board of the Kentucky Communications Network Authority (KCNA), which oversees the state's KentuckyWired broadband network, state media reported. Beshear cited a Kentucky Supreme Court decision in June as authority to invalidate House Bill 314, a law passed this year by the Republican-controlled legislature that replaced a majority of the governor's appointees on the board with appointees of Republican state constitutional officers. His order reverts the board to its makeup before the law passed.
Republicans had argued the law was needed to provide better oversight of the network, which has been entangled for years in litigation with its private partner Accelecom, or Open Fiber Kentucky Company LLC, over contract disputes, including the company's request to connect certain customers to the middle-mile network.
Beshear issued the order ahead of a Thursday morning hearing in Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd's courtroom in the lawsuit between the state and Accelecom, the last scheduled hearing before a planned trial in November. KCNA administers hundreds of miles of fiber-optic cable built to provide high-speed internet to every county seat in Kentucky.
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图片来源：肯塔基州议会大厦，法兰克福。Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY / Public Domain
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