Hey, Google

Hey Google, Here in the hills of Humboldt we hope you give our “big” city cousins of Arcata and Eureka a look when you are deciding where to try your experimental high speed broadband network. Why? Because country folk are always trying to help the neighbors.  Of course, we also figure when you discover our sunsets our sunrises our wildlife

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Broadband for Rural Residents

Rural residents want broadband, too.  Access to the internet is effectively denied when only dialup or limited broadband is available.  Recently on the North Coast Journal’s site,  Michael Katz was mocked (rightly so) for, as Hank put it, “bemoaning the wasting of federal stimulus dollars on the effort to extend the series of tubes to mentally challenged hillbillies. “The notion

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