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Oregon’s Buckled Roads and Melted Cables Are Warning Signs

Highways and rail lines in the Pacific Northwest were built for a cooler climate. But the heat wave proved that extreme weather is becoming more common.

AT&T gives investors and gov’t wildly different takes on need for fiber Internet

AT&T to investors: Fiber is the best! AT&T to gov’t: Don’t give rural people fiber!

Which States Have Dedicated Broadband Offices, Task Forces, Agencies, or Funds?

A review of state strategies for improving access

Take on tomorrow: The secret to high-performance economic development organizations

Smart EDOs are betting on continuous learning to upskill their teams in the face of emerging upheaval. To help them adapt, we turned Wavteq Institute’s transformative in-person training and pedagogy into a scalable platform for organization-wide coaching over the last two years.

Elon Musk’s Starlink to Deliver Internet Nearly Worldwide Within Weeks

“We recently passed the strategically notable number of 69,420 active users,” Musk joked. “We’re I think on our way to having a few hundred thousand users, possibly over 500,000 users within 12 months.”

New Water Wars Are Coming to the American West

Water has been generating conflicts and controversies in the US for centuries, but the American West could be heading toward the most severe water shortages and skirmishes in the nation’s history.

172 Organizations Calls on Congress to Increase Broadband Speeds with Future Proof Fiber

A federal program by Congress that emphasizes delivering future-proof infrastructure can enable not just ubiquitous fiber wireline access, but also make possible ubiquitous wireless services that rely on fiber optics including 5G, next generation Wi-Fi, and their future iterations.

One in Four Rural Americans Can Be a Part of the Climate Solution and Earn Money – Through Their Forests

The Biden administration has an opportunity to help small forest owners become a more significant part of the carbon markets, earn an income on their land, and help with carbon sequestration.

Kickstarter Is Moving to a Four-Day Workweek

The crowdfunding platform will try out the new schedule next year and is joining an effort to encourage other business owners to follow suit.

Remote work won’t save the heartland

For all the discussion of new work patterns and possible relocations for millions of professional workers, fewer and fewer will be fully footloose in the coming years, as remote work settles into a new level that will be higher than the pre-pandemic norm but lower than now.

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