Traver, CA...At a rural elementary school in Tulare County, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed legislation to advance the state’s commitment to bridging the digital divide by increasing equitable, affordable access to high-speed internet service across California. Through a $6 billion multi-year investment, more Californians will be able to access broadband coverage with the construction of a state-owned open access middle mile network and last mile projects that connect unserved households and businesses with local networks.


Governor Newsom signs $6 billion broadband legislation.

Governor Newsom signed SB 156 at Traver Joint Elementary, a school serving diverse students in a rural Tulare County community. The school has distributed hotspot devices to students for internet access as part of the state’s cross-sector efforts launched during the pandemic.

The historic legislation, announced last week in partnership with legislative leaders, advances the statewide broadband plan with expanded infrastructure prioritizing unserved and underserved areas. The legislation includes:

• $3.25 billion to build, operate and maintain an open access, state-owned middle mile network – high-capacity fiber lines that carry large amounts of data at higher speeds over longer distances between local networks.
• $2 billion to set up last-mile broadband connections that will connect homes and businesses with local networks. The legislation expedites project deployment and enables Tribes and local governments to access this funding.
• $750 million for a loan loss reserve fund to bolster the ability of local governments and nonprofits to secure financing for broadband infrastructure.
• Creation of a broadband czar position at the California Department of Technology, and a broadband advisory committee with representatives from across state government and members appointed by the Legislature.

Last year, the state mobilized companies, business leaders and philanthropists through public-private partnerships to facilitate distance learning at school districts in need across the state. The effort helped connect students lacking high-speed internet or an appropriate computing device at home with donated mobile hotspots, laptops, Chromebooks, tablets and other devices. The legislation signed today takes a comprehensive and long-term approach to tackling the broadband infrastructure deficiencies still impacting rural and low-income communities, bringing the state closer to achieving affordable, high-speed broadband internet service for all communities.

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Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 14:27:38   By: Anonymous
Dude - not even you believe that. The man has no competition for the job and is doing a comparatively great job compared to any other governor in this country. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 17:22:04   By: Anonymous
You are a 1st class Idiot! [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 17:33:43   By: Anonymous
No. I think he's right. This recall is entirely tilting at windmills. Let's call it what it is. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 18:14:05   By: Anonymous
No, that is bullsh*t. Governor Newsom is a disaster and has caused Californians thousands of jobs and many have left the state due to his mismanagement. Read some these posts that supports his incompetence. You Democraps are all alike by talking sh*t with no facts to back it up. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 14:55:13   By: Anonymous

Governor Gavin Newsom Failed Californians Unaffordable housing. Record homelessness. Rising crime. Failing schools. Independent contractors thrown out of work. Exploding pension debt. And now, a locked down population while the prisons are emptied. Hold Gavin Newsom accountable. Gavin Newsom must go. VOTE YES to RECALL Gavin Newsom and here is why: Gavin Newsom’s policies are bad for California, bad for business, and he is soft on crime. Since taking office the problems facing us have grown and his policies have only made them worse. Everywhere you look, Gavin Newsom’s failures of are obvious. For the first time in history California population declined businesses closed, corporations left and a congressional seat was lost as a result. REBUILD the California, VOTE YES to RECALL Gavin Newsom. Governor Newsom is soft on crime. He signed SB 145 referred to as the “Pedophile Bill” into law. His mass release of prisoners have led to a spike in crime, increased homelessness and the deterioration of our great state. Californians pay the highest cost of living, the highest taxes of any state. Yet crime is soaring, electricity is unreliable, our roads are crumbling, our water supply is insufficient, water is rationed, and the mismanaged forests are burning. To make things worse he released many of the CDC fire crews, cut their budget and closed CDC fire camps. NOW he is closing Susanville State Prison, where fire crews were housed, eliminating a valuable resource and crippling the local economy. Gavin Newsom misled the people and lied about forest land cleared for fire prevention as California enters a dangerous fire season. VOTE YES to RECALL Gavin Newsom. Under Gavin Newsom our public schools have failed, California was ranked 37th, K – 12 nationwide and our kids have lost a year plus of vital learning. He removed the teacher’s authority to maintain discipline in the classroom and imposed the controversial sexual education curriculum. VOTE YES to RECALL Gavin Newsom. During 2021 Newsom’s Employment Development Department paid est. $31 billion tax dollars in fraudulent claims! He misused our gas tax money for purposes not intended and held those funds hostage to force state housing requirements on local municipalities. He now seeks to take local zoning away from cities and impose state mandates upon them through AB 9 and 10. He kept people from attending church, closed schools, supported open borders and the mass release of criminals while he closed our state and shut down the economy. Newsom is bad for California. VOTE YES to RECALL Gavin Newsom We saw an increase of 6.8% in homelessness between 2019 and 2020, the largest increase of any state in that time frame. California has the highest level of functional poverty in the U.S., Slightly more than 36 percent of California’s residents are at or near the poverty level, more than one third of its population. Gavin Newsom and the elite are getting richer while the average Californian is getting poorer. We cannot afford another 17 months of Gavin Newsom. This is a groundswell movement (Of THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE!). Citizens from all walks of life, the entire political spectrum, every ethnicity, culture and race support this recall. VOTE YES to RECALL Gavin Newsom. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 16:03:23   By: Anonymous
you're an embarrassment to this community. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 16:33:02   By: Anonymous
Your'e mom got digital with me last nite. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-22 07:27:05   By: Anonymous
Repeated Profanity from this IP Address [Reply ]

Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 14:42:10   By: Anonymous
Since all ways [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 14:42:40   By: Anonymous
Gavin. Fantastic job [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 14:56:50   By: Anonymous

RECALL GAVIN NEWSOM What Are Your Whys? Rules for Thee, but Not for He = French Laundry Indoor Dining, No Mask, 22 guests Extreme Government OVERREACH – Massive Executive Orders – Acting w/o Legislature Mandatory Mail-In Voting On-Going Shutdowns, Loss of Small Businesses, Loss of Jobs Unemployment Checks to Prisoners/Felons in the amount of $1 BILLION $2 BILLION in Unemployment Fraud – overall $80 MILLION on billboard “education” plan to remind people to social distance Unemployment to those who lost jobs due to Covid on HOLD – Inefficient System Granting Clemency for Felons: Those who Raped and Murdered, Even Committed Heinous Crimes Against Children AB 5 – Affecting Truckers & Independent Contractors Highest Homeless Rate in our Nation Infringements of our 2nd Amendment Rights Countless new Gun and Ammo Laws Sanctuary State for Illegals and Criminals Made it Legal for Illegal Aliens to Sit on State Boards Highest State Income Tax in our Nation One of the Highest State Sales Tax in our Nation One of the Highest State Property Tax in our Nation Prop 13 – Attempting to Restructure = Increased Property Tax Highest Vehicle Registration Costs in our Nation Highest Poverty Rate in the Nation Vaccination Requirements for Children or be Fined Water Tax – diverted for Newsom’s “pet” projects Children’s Medical Records Automatically Entered into Database Mandatory Health Insurance or be Fined to Pay for Illegals Health Insurance Prop 47: Reduces Felonies to Misdemeanors of Violent Criminals Constricting Ability for Law Enforcement to do their Jobs No Longer Illegal NOT to Help an Officer in Need Highest Gas Tax in our Nation BEFORE the Corona Virus Teachers No Longer can Discipline Disruptive Students Illegals are Given: Income Tax Refunds, Welfare, Medical Insurance, Housing, Education, Food Stamps, Cell Phones… FREE! Government Overreach – Example: Overruling Vote of the People to Reinstate the Death Penalty, and the list goes on! Redirecting the Gas Tax – Not being used for Improving our Infrastructure: roads, dams, bridges Funds for the Bullet Train to Nowhere – funds being diverted from other areas of need Refusing to set up Water Claim System with Taxes Collected to do just that! PG&E Power Outages & Threatening to Take Over PG&E $20,000,000 of Your Tax Dollars Directed to Study Vaping Funding Illegal Alien owned businesses in the amount of $50 Million because CA received federal funding for the Covid-19/Corona Virus Mandate to wear Masks Mask Squads to Enforce Unlawful Mandate, and Fines for Not Wearing Masks $1 Billion Purchase of Faulty Masks from China, instead of American Made $315 Million Taxpayer Dollars on Second Order of Masks from Same China Company $1.3 Trillion State Debt Fighting to Stop our Central Valley Farmers from Getting the Water They Need Failure to Pay His Own Property Taxes 4% Salary Increase for Newsom and State Lawmakers in 2019; 10% Pay Cut to all State Employees in 2020. Newsom and State Lawmakers still making 6% more Retroactive Tax Planned on Folks Making $1 Million or more Fines for Hiring Tutors or Teachers to Help Children with Distance Learning Puts Teacher’s Union Interests Over Those of Children and Families $12 Million Wasted on Sleep Train Arena to Take Care of COVID Patients – Only 9 People Were Treated Failure to Protect Californians in Nursing Homes from Covid-19 Covid-19 Counts Distorted, 541,339 CONFIRMED CASES TOTAL; 10,021 Dead = .0185 of Those Who Test Positive Die; This is .0002 of the Entire State’s Population .02% 8/7/20 Fraud in Reporting Covid-19 Numbers Federal Covid-19 Funds Sent to California Being Used for Homeless instead of Education, Medical, Safety and Security Executive Order to Phase Out Gasoline-Powered Cars by 2035 Infringements on our 1st Amendment Rights to Protest and Worship Forces Lockdowns Preventing the Right to worship, even singing Dismantled Death Chamber and Redistributed Death Row Inmates through the System Release of Violent Criminals, 8,000 is Now on Track to Hit 18,000 Millions are Still Waiting to Receive Unemployment Checks from EDD Approved Statewide Rent Control When it was Voted Down Public Safety Is Being Deliberately Ignored Ability to Raise the Gas Tax at Any Time Without Voter Approval Seeking Billions of Dollars in Collateralized Loans from China Zero Accountability and Transparency on Spending [Reply ]

Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 16:28:07   By: Anonymous
Can’t he ever do anything for the taxpayers like fix our water problem. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 17:34:31   By: Anonymous
DUDE - THIS IS LITERALLY A STORY ABOUT SOMETHING HE IS DOING FOR YOU. DID YOU EVEN READ IT? [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2021-07-21 18:08:26   By: Anonymous
Who is the republican candidate in the recall election ? I’ve never heard of anyone . What is the point of this needless cost for taxpayers . [Reply ]

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