California

How Silicon Valley can use community input to bridge the big broadband gap by Mohammad Shakouri and Jon Walton, Silicon Valley Business Journal

Georgia

The promise and reality of Google Fiber by Jim Burress, Marketplace

Iowa

Williamsburg plans Aug. 14 community meeting by Brian Rathjen, Iowa City Press-Citizen

Kentucky

Leaders define top priorities for Paducah’s strategic plan by Chris Yu, WPSD Local 6 

Maine

SandfordNet Fiber broadband project has started by Tammy Wells, Journal Times 

Montana

Narrowing the rural school digital divide by Myers Reece, Flathead Beacon 

New York

Charter Communications fallout: State regulators urged to tread lightly by Daniel Axelrod, Times Herald-Record

Charter Spectrum has less than two months to find new service provider for customers, Binghamton Homepage 

North Carolina

Officials seek RFP for broadband expansion by Cliff Bellamy, The Daily Dispatch 

Pennsylvania

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Arkansas

Arkansas Coop Expanding Fiber Network to All Members by BBC Wires, Broadband Communities Magazine

California

Santa Monica’s Digital Inclusion Pilot Wins Top 25 Programs in American Government Award by Harvard by Constance Farrell, Santa Monica Daily Press

Colorado

Tribune Opinion: Greeley, Windsor need to look into providing broadband unless companies step up service by The Tribune Editorial Board, The Tribune

Delaware

Rural lower Delaware promised high-speed internet by 2020 by Scott Goss, Delaware News Journal

The Carney administration is taking a major step forward in a longstanding push to extend high-speed internet access to rural communities in downstate Delaware.

The governor on Tuesday announced he is issuing a call for help from any service provider willing to assist in closing the gap by 2020 — an effort backed by $1.3 million in taxpayer assistance.

 

Kentucky

County gets update on KentuckyWired project by Matt Lasley, The Grayson County News-Gazette

New York

NY Threatens to Kick Charter Out of the State After Broadband Failures by Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica

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California

Net neutrality makes comeback in California; lawmakers agree to strict rules by Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica

A California net neutrality bill that could impose the toughest rules in the country is being resurrected.

The bill was approved in its strongest form by the California Senate, but it was then gutted by the State Assembly's Communications Committee, which approved the bill only after eliminating provisions opposed by AT&T and cable lobbyists. Bill author Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has been negotiating with Communications Committee Chairman Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) and other lawmakers since then, and he announced the results today.

In America’s tech capital, tens of thousands go without home Internet. Here’s how San Francisco wants to fix it. by Brian Fung, The Washington Post

Should San Francisco’s network move forward, it would become one of only a few in the United States to operate this way, analysts say, making it a bold experiment not just as an infrastructure project but also as a matter of  policy. Today, fewer than 200,000 U.S. households benefit from these types of open-access infrastructure policies, said Christopher Mitchell, a broadband advocate at the Institute for Local Self Reliance.

San Francisco’s proposal faces opposition from incumbents such as AT&T and Comcast. (AT&T declined to comment for this story. Comcast didn’t respond to a request for comment.) Industry officials routinely show up to community meetings on the city project to stay abreast of it, Farrell said, and they’re engaged in heavy marketing of...

California

Watering-down of net neutrality bill draws backlash by Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press [Ventura County Star]

A California lawmaker's decision to alter a net neutrality bill considered one of the nation's most aggressive efforts to require an equal playing field on the internet has generated intensely personal online attacks aimed at his family as well as criticism from fellow Democrats in Congress.

Assemblyman Miguel Santiago leads a committee that this week stripped whole chunks of a net neutrality measure. He stirred a passionate reaction from open internet advocates who think the state that is home to the technology sector and the liberal resistance to President Donald Trump should take a hardline stance on the matter.

The decision reverberated far beyond California's Capitol, drawing rebukes from members of Congress and leading the state Democratic chairman to try to diffuse tension. Santiago quickly drew fire in online memes and a flood of calls to his office accusing the Los Angeles lawmaker of selling out to internet providers, citing his contributions from AT&T.

Colorado

Boulder City Council Votes to Fund Citywide Broadband Network by Brianna Williams, Next City

The Fort Collins broadband service will be called … by Nick Coltrain, The Coloradoan

Iowa

Rural matters: Small town voters are looking for big ideas in 2018 by Bill Menner, Cedar Rapids Gazette

So, what could the next governor or Legislature or Congress do to help?

Fund significantly the existing broadband grant program. Legislators funded it for the first time this year, approving $1.3 million. In fact, the high-speed broadband of...