News Clippings:

• Access gap threatens rural states Pro-broadband group are missing out on the potential benefits of high-speed access By Maria Seminerio ZDNN July 27, 1999.

  Americans living in rural and poor areas have no direct access to broadband Internet service, partly because of telecommunications regulations that prohibit companies from building high-speed data networks in those areas... [with maps]

• Senators Push Rural Internet Access By PHILIP BRASHER Associated Press Writer Yahoo! News, Friday May 21 11:39 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - Farm-state Senate Democrats are asking federal regulators to consider subsidizing high-speed Internet access in rural areas, saying better telecommunications are critical to economic survival.
  also here! [TechServer]
• State's rural areas in line for big economic boost; Seattle Times, April 11, 1999, by Jim Lynch Seattle Times Olympia bureau

  For the past decade, the Legislature has tried to spark rural economies by letting them lure big smokestack and high-tech companies with tax breaks, and by retraining laid-off timber workers and fishermen. ...lawmakers this year have focused on helping with the mundane essentials needed to retain and attract small businesses. A sweeping plan to provide more affordable phone service to rural residents failed. But an assortment of measures to help counties retain and recruit companies still is alive."

• `Lone Eagles' take flight: Rural entrepreneurs make economic impact Puget Sound Business Journal, May 4, 1998 George Erb Staff Writer "Washington's small towns are seeing another kind of newcomer: Well-educated entrepreneurs who use the latest telecommunications gear to sell specialty goods and services all over the country, if not worldwide. Enough of these entrepreneurs have moved to rural communities in the 1990s to get the attention of journalists, researchers, Western think tanks and economic-development councils."
• Community plays big role in economic development Seattle Times, Feb.20, 1998, by Tim Douglas (director of the state Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development). AS we approach the new millennium, no topic is more important to the state than how cities and counties will thrive and prosper in the future. While the economy in the Puget Sound area is as strong as ever, much of the rest of the state - especially the more rural areas - remain in the doldrums.
• Lone eagles, high fliers and the rural migration || or here Seattle Times, Feb. 26, 1997, by John Clayton, "Priscilla Salant and colleagues at Washington State University recently surveyed people moving to Washington state. They were looking for "lone eagles" - self-employed individuals who can work wherever they want and who use information technologies to sell products or services to a nonlocal market."

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