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Our weeklong virtual conference, Ars UNITE, kicked off today with an examination of how city and town governments are going the extra mile to improve residential broadband. After our feature on the topic—“Fed up, US cities take steps to build better...

Fun to share a new report on Minnesota community broadband initiatives… In 2010 the Minnesota legislature set a goal: universal access to high speed broadband throughout the state by 2015. As 2015 approaches we know that large parts of Greater Minnesota...

This article originally appeared at Dissent. Photo by Shutterstock. The first thing you notice about Reading, Pennsylvania, the small city that lies an hour and a half north of Philadelphia, is its many parks and muscular civic buildings. Mount Penn...

A unique community-owned broadband cooperative will free dozens of tiny towns and farms from reliance on slower corporate providers. Seven years ago, Winthrop, Minnesota, population 1,400, decided it needed an internet upgrade. Most local residents...

President Obama this afternoon will be in Cedar Falls, Iowa—which has its own cable and high-speed data networks—where he is expected to pitch the need for greater high-speed Internet access in rural and underserved areas, Philip Brasher reports for...