Let’s talk about the faces we show to and hide from the world, and how the internet magnifies them all. Welcome to part five of Making Change, a six-week series on the hows and whys of personal, social and political change. For as long as I can remember, I’ve experienced the phenomenon I refer to […]
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NCJ Preview: Internet, Wind and Children’s Theater
This week we’re sharing an Indian Country Today story on bringing the Hoopa Valley up to internet speed. We’ve also got updates on where wind power plans are right now and the road ahead. Dell’Arte’s holiday show Nightlight gets a review and a new(ish) winter squash gets the holiday appetizer treatment. Hit subscribe for weekly […]
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Frontier Communications Corp. to Pay Yurok Tribe $500K, Invest Millions in Internet Infrastructure
The Yurok Tribe is a few steps closer to completing its mission to bring fast-speed internet to the reservation after the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a settlement requiring the Frontier Communications Corporation to pay $500,000 for reimbursement losses for service failures and to invest $5 million in the Yurok Tribe’s effort to build internet […]
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Yurok Broadband Project Connects Reservation’s Most Remote Areas to High-Speed Internet
The Yurok Connect Broadband Project team finished installing a new 150-foot tower in Wautec yesterday, linking one of the remote parts of the Yurok Reservation to high-speed internet. “Access to high-speed internet will significantly improve the everyday lives of Yurok citizens and non-Indian reservation residents,” said Yurok Tribal Chair Joseph L. James. “This project will facilitate progress […]
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Yurok Broadband Connect Project a ‘Game Changer’ for the Tribe
The Yurok Tribal Council recently approved a $2.1 million project to boost internet speeds and provide access to homes that have never been connected, according to an announcement today. The Yurok Connect Broadband Project received funding from the CARES Act and is expected to be completed by the end of the year, the release states. […]
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Klamath River Rural Broadband Initiative Scores Major Funding
According to a press release from Access Humboldt, the Klamath River Rural Broadband Initiative was awarded more than $10 million of supplemental funding from the California Advanced Services Fund for completion of a fiber optic telecommunications project in Humboldt County. The KRRBI project was initially granted CASF support in 2013. Read the full release below: On […]
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Access Humboldt Scores (Temporary) Free Internet for Students in Disconnected Households
With schools throughout Humboldt County having been shuttered to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Access Humboldt is trying to bridge the digital divide. At least temporarily. The nonprofit reached out to Altice-Suddenlink, which agreed to offer households with students in its service area that don’t currently have internet access free broadband for 60 days. At […]
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FCC Takes a Step Over the Digital Divide
A divided Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 Thursday to modernize Lifeline, a program that subsidizes critical communications services for the poor, to include broadband Internet access. The vote means that, by the end of the year, Americans with a household income at or below 135 percent of the federal poverty line will be eligible for […]
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AT&T, PG&E Outages Hit Countywide
Storm conditions have contributed to both a loss of communication and loss of power across Humboldt County as rain, hail and wind continue to batter the coast. According to the county Public Information Officer Sean Quincey, CalTrans crews were clearing a culvert between Fortuna and Rio Dell yesterday morning in preparation for last night’s storm […]
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AT&T Blames ‘Fiber Issue” for Blackout
Scores of AT&T customers found themselves cut off from the rest of the digital world Monday afternoon, as the company experienced what it described cryptically as a “fiber issue.” The outage hit early Monday afternoon and lasted until the evening, leaving AT&T cell phone, Internet and U-verse customers without service. Some poor souls who rely […]
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Internet Dreamin’
Clad in a busy floral tie, white shirt and slacks, Larry Goldberg sits on the handrail of a single lane wooden bridge, with a bulky computer on his lap and a cellular phone the size of a dictionary beside him. The dirt road behind him curves in front of a barn and a logger’s hard […]
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Sara Bareilles to Internet: ‘All Love’
Katy Perry’s Roar sounds like Sara Bareilles’ Brave, says Internet.