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Taxpayer advocates hope latest broadband grants go to unserved areas

Applications are open for North Carolina’s government broadband grants. Taxpayer advocates hope the money is spent in the right places. Gov. Roy Cooper’s office recently announced that qualified internet service providers and electric cooperatives can now apply for the recent round of Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) grants. Up to $350 million...

Johnny Kampis
Opinion

Local governments still don’t need to get in the broadband business

In 2011, a then-new Republican majority in the N.C. General Assembly was alarmed at an expensive new trend in local government. Residents in Wilson, Salisbury, Mooresville, Davidson, and Morganton were being hit with higher taxes and even electricity and water rates as their cities were bleeding money. Why? To pay for their cities’ decision to...

Jon Sanders

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