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Reply May 17, 2021 The Office of State Broadband within the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel announces that a newly released report from BroadbandNow, which performs independent research and data on high-speed Internet access in the U.S., finds that 386,786 residents in the State of Connecticut do not have access to broadband. Subscribe The analysis was performed by checking a sample of addresses against data that had been provided by wireline broadband Internet providers to the Federal Communications Commission. The study found that the providers over-reported to the FCC availability of broadband service in cities, rural towns and everywhere in between. Out of a population of 3,565,000, the report found that 386,786 Connecticut residents were without broadband access. BroadbandNow observed an error rate of 22% in data submitted to the FCC by providers. Broadband is defined as Internet access at a download speed of no less than 25 Megabits per second ....
My Turn: State Democratic Party has made steady progress Published: 2/1/2021 6:00:09 AM Turning 70 last month gives me a valuable vantage point from which to see the long game – to assess where we’ve come, where we are, and where we are going as a state Democratic Party. Over the past 40 years, New Hampshire has transformed from a permanent, rock-solid Republican state in the 1980s and mid-90s to a very competitive battleground state that in the past 10 years has celebrated historic victories for Democrats in every election. We have to stay on course. From 1982 to 1996, New Hampshire Democrats didn’t win a single statewide office – seven elections in a row with not one victory. In the 1980s there were an average of 128 Democrats in the N.H. House, in the 1990s it was 139, in the 2000s it rose to 168 and in the past 10 years there has been 196 – this is astonishing. We have gone from being relegated to minority status for 132 straight years to winning the ....
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