**FALL COVER REVEAL** Fall 2024 Issue coming this month to rathallareview.org. Art by Brian Michael Barbeito.
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**FALL COVER REVEAL** Fall 2024 Issue coming this month to rathallareview.org. Art by Brian Michael Barbeito.
New submissions and those not yet in-progress will roll over for consideration in our next issue. Please direct all comments or questions through Submittable.
Outstanding work from @JakeVarn from @pewresearch.org updating us on state low cost broadband options!
I didn’t know that some states were offering waivers to exceed the lost cost requirement. What a surprise and disappointment.
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Apologies to Iowans, whose days of always being politically front-and-center seemed to be over. I didn’t realize how far you were willing to go to win the nation’s attention back
i’m mad that everything about the internet that was fun & useful 10 years ago is broken now. this site, obviously. reviews are astroturf lies. search is ai hallucination. no place to share with friends & family without influencer / meme / polarized content overrunning the feed.
Congress is letting a vital program run out of money, leaving states to pick up the pieces?
In other news, catch me on @Light_Reading's podcast The Divide talking about... how Congress let ACP run out of money and how states are picking up the pieces: lightreading.com/broadband/t…
It’s pretty inhuman how this country leaves prisoners to die in every natural disaster, whether that’s a hurricane, heat wave, or pandemic. It’s an extension of the ordinary way that people behind bars are not considered human beings, and there’s hardly ever consequences for it.
“Some states have begun to explore how they can step in to fill the vacuum created by the ACP lapse,” ✍️ our Summer Boucher-Robinson and @JakeVarn take a closer look at what states are doing to make broadband more affordable. pew.org/3XNNDv0
John and Blair make a compelling case here for taxing online gambling to fund the Universal Service Fund, but I'd throw one more log on this fire: Taxing online ads.
Addresses edge providers and is disconnected from any costs borne by the customer.