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Trails, Textbooks And Towers: Here Are The 'Broadband' Expenses W.Va. Gov. Justice Charged To The CARES Act


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A CARES Act money pit? Curve of Tunnel 8 on the North Bend Rail Trail. Photo: Mike Tewkesbury via Flickr
Barely any of the money, earmarked for pandemic relief, will actually connect homes and businesses to the internet
This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org.
For Gov. Jim Justice, the announcement was the easy part. In September, he promised to spend $50 million of the state’s federal coronavirus response fund to bring internet to underserved areas of West Virginia.
He held multiple press conferences to flesh out his goal of “covering up West Virginia in broadband,” and even floated a way to do it: give companies $1,000 for every household they hook up. ....

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