Stimulus officials seek help in extending super highway into digital darklands

There are people in Colorado and around the country who don’t have access to broadband internet. Worse is that a lot of them, accustomed to their pre-digital lives, see no immediate need for the internet, even though they are increasingly…

Colo. wins stimulus money to map Internet terrain and lay the tubes

The Governor’s Office of Information Technology has won federal Recovery Act cash to up the speed limit on the information superhighway in the overdue dial-up regions of the state.

Polis, Perlmutter signed onto Net policy letter meant to serve Verizon

Colorado U.S. Reps. Jared Polis and Ed Perlmutter signed onto a letter to the Federal Communications Commission last week Thursday that was penned by New York Democratic U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks. The letter was signed by 70 other members of Congress and appears to have been crafted by Meeks to cater to Verizon Communications, the second-largest employer in his New York district and also the second-largest contributor to his campaign coffers. Verizon donated as much as $43,000 to Meeks, according to campaign-cash tracking website Open Secrets.

The letter was sent in advance of meetings the FCC plans to hold Thursday on national broadband policy.

Colorado schools look to stimulus funding for broadband boost

Many Colorado schools operate without adequate access to an increasingly critical utility:  broadband service. It’s a problem that plagues many rural and some urban districts in the state.

Many are hoping federal stimulus money can change the situation.