On August 15th, business owner and community leader Adam McElvain will hold a forum to discuss the potential of bringing “Ultra–Fast Internet” to Redding and the benefits to the community from access to this future service. To help facilitate discussion and community education… Continue Reading
The fourth graders at Whitmore Union Elementary School are learning to code. Let that sink in. As adults, one of these rural eastern Shasta County kids might someday design the robot army that destroys humanity. Become the next hedge fund… Continue Reading
Due to a fortuitous set of circumstances, my family is now on the receiving end of not just one, not just two but three internet service providers. Originally, we only had internet access via a digital subscriber line, or DSL,… Continue Reading
Judging from reader response to the first installment of this series on bringing broadband Internet to rural northern California, there are a lot of folks out there not getting the Internet they need, let alone want. There are many interconnected reasons for… Continue Reading
If you live in the sticks and work on the Internet like I do, you’ve no doubt lost many precious moments of your life downloading and uploading large files. Time is money and out here it can flow slower than… Continue Reading
If you are reading this, you have access to the Internet. That places you among the large majority of Californians who go online regularly through a home, work or school computer, their cell phone or with a library computer. Most… Continue Reading
I can see the photograph in my mind’s eye as clearly as when my friend Rex showed it to me a while back. Rex said he’d snapped that picture in Burney of a teenage girl, deep in concentration as she typed on a laptop. She… Continue Reading
I was a newspaper snob. In my book, print was superior to cyber. That’s because all my life – even before I became a journalist – the sight of a rolled newspaper in my driveway filled me with a Pavlovian sense of joy, contentment and routine. My coffee waited for me on… Continue Reading
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