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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper joined President Joe Biden in Raleigh today to announce $82 million in new investments from the American Rescue Plan’s Capital Projects Fund that will connect at least 16,000 North Carolina homes and businesses to high-speed internet
Published: Friday, January 19th, 2024 @ 7:37 am
By: Governor's Office
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Cutting-edge high-speed internet is on its way to some of North Carolina’s rural counties, Republican Senator Thom Tillis announced last month.
Published: Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 @ 9:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper today announced the state’s first Completing Access to Broadband (CAB) program awards totaling $22 million that will connect 6,012 households and 164 businesses in 14 counties to high-speed internet.
Published: Friday, October 13th, 2023 @ 6:07 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Grants will bring broadband to 25,000 N.C. households in 33 counties
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 7:36 pm
By: Governor's Office
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State’s largest round of GREAT grant awards will connect nearly 85,000 households and more than 2,400 businesses to broadband
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 9:31 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Grants funded by ARPA to connect 13,000 plus families to high-speed internet part of Governor Cooper’s plan to close the digital divide
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 8:25 am
By: Governor's Office
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Grants to connect thousands more families to high-speed internet are part of Governor Cooper’s plan to close the digital divide
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 8:32 am
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce declaring North Carolina’s intent to participate in the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program.
Published: Wednesday, May 18th, 2022 @ 11:59 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Biden-Harris Administration’s Internet for All Initiative will invest $45 billion to provide affordable, reliable and high-speed internet for everyone in America by 2030
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2022 @ 12:42 pm
By: Governor's Office
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State agencies are asking residents to take the N.C. Broadband Survey to help determine which areas are unserved or underserved.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2022 @ 12:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Applications are open for North Carolina’s government broadband grants. Taxpayer advocates hope the money is spent in the right places.
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 5:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Internet Service Providers encouraged to apply for GREAT Grants by April 4
Published: Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 @ 10:58 am
By: Governor's Office
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The General Assembly may allocate hundreds of millions in federal relief toward closing the digital divide this session
Published: Thursday, July 29th, 2021 @ 6:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill to distribute $750 million in federal funding to expand high-speed broadband internet access in all 100 counties in North Carolina passed the state House unanimously on Wednesday.
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 8:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A legislative bill that would allocate $750 million in federal relief money toward broadband growth has passed the House Appropriations Committee.
Published: Monday, May 31st, 2021 @ 8:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. House Republicans have filed an ambitious bill that will allocate three quarters of a billion federal dollars toward broadband.
Published: Thursday, May 20th, 2021 @ 10:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislation Aimed at Connecting All 100 Counties
Published: Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 @ 9:28 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A bipartisan group of senators is crafting legislation that would find ways to expand broadband access in North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, April 10th, 2021 @ 7:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolinians can now view results from an ongoing survey designed to show gaps in coverage in the state, which so far indicates a lack of access to broadband.
Published: Thursday, February 4th, 2021 @ 10:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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When the General Assembly reconvenes next week, broadband promises to be a hot topic.
Published: Thursday, January 21st, 2021 @ 3:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper won a second term. But he had no coattails.
Published: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 1:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly will convene its biennial session Jan. 13. They’ll talk about how to get the economy back on its feet, address a learning gap in education, improve access to quality health care at an affordable price, put together a tax and spending plan and begin the centennial redistricting p
Published: Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 @ 11:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Projects Expected to Connect Nearly 16,000 Households and 700 Businesses to Broadband
Published: Friday, December 18th, 2020 @ 6:56 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Leaders in the General Assembly and governor say they have reached a deal to ensure $30 million for the GREAT rural broadband program.
Published: Monday, December 14th, 2020 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Local communities, legislators, and businesses are having a hard time understanding why Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget office pulled the plug on $32 million in grants for rural broadband projects that had attracted 70 applicants.
Published: Friday, December 4th, 2020 @ 5:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This week, Rural Broadband Week, Governor Cooper announced $12 million for internet expansion projects in 11 rural counties through the Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) grant and COVID-19 Recovery Act.
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2020 @ 7:11 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Projects in 11 rural counties awarded GREAT grants and COVID-19 Recovery Act funding
Published: Wednesday, August 19th, 2020 @ 4:09 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Lawmakers spent Tuesday, Oct. 8, advancing four mini-budget plans as the budget veto stalemate drags on into another month.
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2019 @ 7:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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High-speed broadband Internet service is no longer a luxury.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2019 @ 7:50 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Better internet access is coming to 19 rural, economically disadvantaged counties in North Carolina thanks to nearly $10 million in grants, Governor Roy Cooper announced today along with the NC Department of Information Technology and its Broadband Infrastructure Office.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 6:03 pm
By: Governor's Office
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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?
Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2019 @ 11:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Cooper today issued Executive Order No. 91 to increase internet access across North Carolina including through a new Governor's Task Force on Connecting North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2019 @ 11:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina legislative leaders released their agreed-upon budget proposal Monday, with votes expected to take place this week
Published: Monday, June 4th, 2018 @ 11:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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