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Editorial: Virginia's $700 million rural broadband investment in context newsadvance.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsadvance.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
We need to start preparing for that happy day, which might be just three years away. Gov. Ralph Northam has proposed using $700 million of Virginiaâs $4.3 billion share of federal stimulus funds for rural broadband, an amount that is said to be sufficient to get the state as close to 100% broadband coverage as possible by 2024. This calls for context, although nearly universal broadband coverage is pretty good context on its own. This is our rural electrification moment, if youâre looking for some historical perspective. Franklin Roosevelt got political credit for that, although neither Northam nor President Joe Biden is likely to get the same credit here, although perhaps they should. ....
Gov. Northam compliments the work of the Va. General Assembly Gov. Ralph Northam is awaiting federal guidance on whether Virginia can use some of the estimated $6.8 billion coming to the state and local governments from the American Rescue Plan Act to make a âgenerational investmentâ in renovating or replacing public school buildings that have become obsolete with age. Northam also needs to know how Virginia can spend the money under the law, which President Joe Biden signed on March 11, before he and General Assembly leaders can decide on when to call a special session this summer to appropriate the federal aid in the stateâs two-year budget. ....
RINGGOLD, Va. â Elected officials from Pittsylvania County and the City of Danville, along with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and Virginia Secretary of Agriculture Bettina Ring and other state and community leaders, joined AeroFarms representatives on Thursday for a groundbreaking ceremony for its newest 136,000 square foot indoor vertical farming facility in Ringgold â the worldâs largest aeroponic vertical farm. AeroFarms, a Certified B Corporation and leader in vertical farming, has developed its own proprietary growing technology to be able to grow produce all year round with annual productivity up to 390 times greater than traditional field farming. Once completed, the new facility, located in the Cane Creek Industrial Centre, will be the largest and most sophisticated aeroponic vertical farm in the world, and is part of AeroFarmsâ expansion plans to address some of our most pressing agriculture and environmental challenges. ....