Broadband

The federal Emergency Broadband Benefit subsidizes home or mobile access for many who already qualify for federal anti-poverty programs like Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid.

This weekend HB 5, or “The Texas Broadband Bill,” was one of the few pieces of legislation that passed with strong bipartisan support during an especially contentious legislative session.

"It establishes a baseline state-level policy plan, and infrastructure, that ... will allow us to solve the problem."

From Texas Standard:The pandemic has been hard for everyone, but especially for those who don't have dependable access to high-speed internet. One thing…

From Texas Standard:In the 1930s, a young congressman named Lyndon Johnson decided he wanted to do something grand – on the scale of his hero, Franklin…

In Texas, nearly one million households still are not using the Internet. More than 38 percent of Texans are still not connected to high-speed Internet at…

We can still haggle over who has the better barbeque, but Kansas City, Kansas will indisputably have faster internet service in the very near future.…