We have long been arguing that the telephone and cable companies are not sufficiently investing in the connections needed by communities. Quarter after quarter, companies...
In the wake of a bill in Georgia to revoke local authority and substitute it with state say-so over whether a community can build a...
A growing number of farmers are selling their products directly to consumers. Expanding localmarkets for agricultural products connects producers with eaters and increases farmers’ incomes...
Chattanooga’s community owned EPB Fiber Network continues to get positive reviews from subscribers in the local paper. And Comcast’s customers continue to complain. The Times...
A rural Fiber-to-the-Farm project that started in Sibley County has added three new towns to its potential territory due to the extremely high interest in...
An annual survey has found that independent businesses had strong sales growth over the holidays and appear to be benefitting from growing public interest in...
I recently stumbled across a great point regarding the spectacular failure of the US (mostly the FCC, but Congress should certainly share some of the...
The SouthEast Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors has its annual conference in Chattanooga this year – March 12 and 13th. The conference includes a...
With AT&T again pushing a bill in South Carolina to revoke local authority to build community broadband networks, the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and...
A few weeks ago John C. Nienstedt, Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis wrote a widely publicized letter to a priest threatening to strip him...
With all the great community broadband network projects out there that are owned by local governments, I hope readers will take some time to nominate...
The Georgia Senate is considering SB 313, a bill that would overrule local decision-making authority in matters of broadband. Even as connections to the Internet...
Minnesota Public Radio has once again covered some of the many benefits coming from the stimulus-funded Southwest Minnesota Broadband Services that grew out of WindomNet,...
This presentation covers the basics of compostable plastics: what they are (and are not), where they are being successfully used, key challenges such as identification...
One of the great conferences, Freedom to Connect, is back for 2011! I’ll be in Washington, DC, (well, Silver Spring to be accurate) on May...