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

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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 

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California 

CPUC moves to help close digital divide for students by Bruce Mirken, Post News Group

High school district grapples to bridge digital divide by Kate Bradshaw, Mountain View Voice

Missouri

Community partnership uses school buses to provide free Internet access in Perry County, Mo. by Amber Ruch, KFVS12

Best case scenario: Early broadband build-out leaves some rural areas prepared for online work and school by Anna Brugmann, Columbia Daily Tribune

Minnesota

Rural America lags on fast Internet. Now small co-ops are building it by Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor 

“Co-ops in my mind are the unsung heroes of broadband rural deployment,” says Christopher Ali, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who is writing a book on the subject. “Co-ops are much more responsive to needs of their local communities.”

New Mexico

USDA to spend $23M to expand broadband in NM by Scott Turner, Albuquerque Journal

North Carolina

Wilson community broadband proves valuable during coronavirus outbreak by Mandy Mitchell, WRAL

North Dakota

Why North Dakota has the best Internet in the United States by Karl Bode, Vice

Past ISLR studies have shown that mindlessly throwing subsidies at the nation’s...

Colorado

Glenwood working toward installing a new broadband system over the next two years by Matthew Bennett, Post Independent 

Kentucky 

Locally owned rural telcos establish hotspots to meet demand during pandemic by Toni Riley, Daily Yonder

Massachusetts 

Expanding wireless broadband hubs in unserved communities, Massachusetts Broadband Institute 

New York 

City reaches deal with Greenlight, hopes to leverage terms to bridge digital divide by Brian Sharp, Democrat and Chronicle 

Pennsylvania

Closing the digital divide in rural Pennsylvania by Therese Perlowski, Internet2

Washington

Rural Washington residents working from home adapt to dearth of high-speed Internet connectivity by Amy Edelen, Spokesman

Broadband is primarily a private investment and it’s difficult to make a business case to Internet service providers to deploy in remote areas, because it’s expensive to build towers and lay fiber. If communities can show there are enough people living in the area through mapping, it opens up opportunity for grants that could support broadband infrastructure, Hansen said.

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Colorado 

Municipal election results roll in, 3 new municipalities pass broadband service by Brennan Linsley, Colorado Politics 

Georgia

Blue Ridge Mountain EMC Transforms Broadband Have-Nots Into Broadband Haves by Sean Buckley, Broadband Communities

Kansas 

Monroe County EPA teams up with Conexon to launch fiber-to-the-home network, Monroe Journal

Monroe County EPA will begin construction on the network by the fourth quarter of 2020, with the first customers expected to be connected by early 2021. The four-year build-out will span 1,500 miles of fiber, serve 100 percent of the power’s association’s 10,800 members and is anticipated to cost in the range of $29 million.

Maine

Coronavirus sparks new interest in bridging digital divides by Zack Quaintance, GovTech

Minnesota

New urgency for rural broadband by Aaron J. Brown, Hibbing Daily Tribune

Missouri

Wisper, Rural Electric Cooperative Sho-Me make deal on Missouri broadband builds by Joan Engebretson, telecompetitor

New York

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