digital divide
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Proposed congressional regs imperil digital access for rural Colorado
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Led by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, Democrats in Congress are holding the future of America’s high-speed internet hostage. In the process, they are testing the limits of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) in a blatant effort to reinstate burdensome, Obama-era regulations on the internet. Reinstating these overly prescriptive, public-utility style regulations would only serve…
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On the front line of the digital divide, Cortez asks voters to pursue local broadband
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Rural Colorado long has been on the short end of high-speed internet even as local telecom providers have scrambled to fill in the gaps. Private-sector efforts notwithstanding, state law allows municipalities to set up their own broadband systems – and that’s just what a number of communities around the state have been doing with local…
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Senate’s ruling Republicans reach out to rural Colorado as #coleg opens
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The Colorado Senate’s majority Republicans are pitching upgrades to the information superhighway – as well as to plain-old paved highways – as a boon to rural Colorado. A press announcement touting the legislation said both proposals – the first two Senate bills introduced on opening day Wednesday – demonstrated a “commitment to assisting parts of rural…
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IN RESPONSE: Don’t trust the legislature to improve rural internet
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In a recent article, Colorado Politics’s Joey Bunch writes about potential legislative efforts to cobble together some version of net neutrality at the state level. This is a direct response to the FCC’s recent controversial reversal of Obama-era internet regulations. “One of the most important things we can do for the economy of rural Colorado…
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FEEDBACK: Tax reform, auto addiction, digital divide and more
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U.S. tax code outdated, uncompetitive The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senate budget recently, paving the way for tax reform. Markups have begun in House Ways and Means and changes are already being made to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. While the passage of the budget was a significant step forward in advancing…
