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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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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Governor Urges N.C. Families to Sign Up Starting May 12 for Discounts on Internet, Computers
Published: Friday, May 7th, 2021 @ 2:46 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Still cannot get high-quality, reliable, high-speed internet service at home? You are not alone.
Published: Wednesday, April 28th, 2021 @ 4:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Warren County students will soon be able to access high-speed internet via satellite technology, as the county joins Hyde and Swain counties in a pilot program aimed at improving internet access to support remote learning.
Published: Friday, March 19th, 2021 @ 8:16 am
By: Governor's Office
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Some students in Hyde and Swain counties will soon be able to access high-speed internet via satellite technology, thanks to a pilot program aimed at improving internet access to support remote learning.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 6:05 pm
By: Governor's Office
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This bundle of five lots can be split to sold as a pair, or in a combination of three additional lots bringing the total to five, allowing a flexible purpose for many possibilities.
Published: Saturday, February 27th, 2021 @ 9:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Within the plan of this project, I am offering these lots, and this tract that may be so unique that few, if any other proposed projects would even consider offering such, offering such; an experiment in community where the dreams of many may have individual success, bolstering the community.
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 12:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tract C, with frontage on the south side of Old Blounts Creek Road, this is some of the best well drained land on this "River Road" of the Southside.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 4:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Deatherage and Associates will begin the offering of 3 tracts of good ground; easily accessible, well drained land, all with water access on the Pamlico River /Chocowinity Bay, with many other commonly owned spaces projected as part of the bargain.
Published: Saturday, February 6th, 2021 @ 12:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Proposed Tract C and part of Tract B: Location of Good, Well Drained Ground is Key for any Wise Development ...
Published: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 @ 10:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has partnered with a public school system in West Texas to deliver fast, low-latency internet to students residing in areas where connectivity is inadequate, unaffordable, or non-existent.
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 2:21 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced nearly $40 million in funding for NC Student Connect, a new partnership created to address internet connectivity gaps that are a barrier to remote learning for many North Carolina students.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2020 @ 12:27 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Grants will fund projects Columbus, Duplin and Graham counties
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2020 @ 9:27 am
By: Governor's Office
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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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CISA is pleased to announce the finalized versions of three of the TIC core guidance documents: Program Guidebook, Reference Architecture, and Security Capabilities Catalog (formerly known as the Security Capabilities Handbook).
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2020 @ 6:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Secretary Tracy Doaks will serve at DIT until July 31
Published: Thursday, June 18th, 2020 @ 9:43 am
By: Governor's Office
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Yesterday, on Monday, April 6, Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) joined a bipartisan and bicameral group of federal lawmakers in sending a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others to include funding for broadband internet in any further legislative response to the COVID-19
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 @ 2:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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K-12 public schools are closing for two weeks and universities are moving classes online to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 5:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper announced high-speed internet will expand in in Columbus County thanks to a federal grant announced today a $7.9 million ReConnect Pilot Program grant.
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 5:13 am
By: Governor's Office
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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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Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bills into law
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 7:32 am
By: Governor's Office
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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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H.B. 431 — titled the FIBER NC Act — would grant counties and cities the authority to use property taxes to construct such facilities and equipment.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2019 @ 3:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State laws and regulations prevent municipalities from collaborating with Internet Service Providers in public-private partnerships that could bridge the urban-rural digital divide, the N.C. League of Municipalities says
Published: Sunday, March 25th, 2018 @ 11:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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American infrastructure has fallen behind due to years of inaction and a broken permitting system
Published: Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 @ 6:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It does not mean they are not out to get me
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2018 @ 3:07 am
By: Bobby Tony
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In an event that marked the end of Western civilization and the simultaneous destruction of capacity for human happiness, the FCC voted 3-2 to end net neutrality on Thursday
Published: Saturday, December 16th, 2017 @ 9:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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Lawmakers are trying to make it easier for broadband providers to reach that last lonely house on that far-away dirt road
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 @ 12:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A North Carolina municipal broadband network has made the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Dirty Dozen” — 12 high-profile taxpayer-funded internet projects that have cost the public more than $2 billion
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2017 @ 5:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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