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Colorado
Little-known Internet network plans Western Colorado expansion to link students, nonprofits to supercomputers by Tamara Chuang, Colorado Sun
Louisiana
Louisiana co-op broadband bill faces hurdles in legislature by Mark Ballard, Government Technology
Legislation in the Louisiana state house that would urge electric cooperatives to help bring high-speed Internet to rural areas cleared its third legislative hurdle Monday.But the rural co-ops opposed the bill arguing that recently amended wording in the measure would preclude the cooperatives from competing for the broadband Internet business.
Maryland
Harford seeks Internet provider to extend broadband to northern part of county by James Whitlow, The Baltimore Sun
Massachusetts
Municipal broadband investment needed now for ‘new normal’ by Joel D. McAuliffe, MassLive
New Hampshire
Jaffrey considers public-private broadband bond options by Ashley Saari, Ledger-Transcript
General
Poor Americans face hurdles in getting promised Internet by David McCabe, New York Times
ILSR: Cooperative fiber deployments exceed 360, 62% of subs can get fiber from their telco cooperative by Joan Engebretson, telecompetitor
Telecom and electric cooperative fiber deployments now exceed 360, according to a new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR). Among those are 210 deployments supporting gigabit broadband service.
Can municipal broadband bridge the digital divide? by Glenn Daigon, WhoWhatWhy
Enough is enough by Doug Dawson, POTs and PANs
New study tries, fails, to claim community broadband is an inevitable boondoggle by Karl Bode, Techdirt
1 big thing: The next battles between cities and states by Kim Hart, Axios Cities Newsletter
Iowa
Iowa receives $26.2 million in emergency education relief to expand broadband access, Discover Muscatine
Minnesota
California
Partnerships can close the digital divide by Apoorva Pasricha & Kevin Frazier, GovTech
Colorado
Arizona
Mohave Electric Cooperative moves forward to build fiber optic network in partnership with TWN Communications, Cision PR Newswire
Arkansas
Colorado
Glenwood working toward installing a new broadband system over the next two years by Matthew Bennett, Post Independent
Kentucky