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California Wants Broadband Funds Without the Federal Side Order of Scrapped Laws
· New York time
California is seeking federal broadband funds while rejecting a Trump administration condition that the state scrap its own broadband laws. The state has called the demand preposterous, setting up a dispute over the terms attached to support for internet access. The disagreement matters for projects and communities that depend on public funding to extend service. It also concerns who gets to set the rules around that expansion: federal officials offering money or a state defending its existing laws. The fight gives the phrase connected government a complicated meaning. One side wants the funds and objects to the condition; the other has attached the condition to the funds. Both the money and the fine print are doing a great deal of work before a connection reaches anyone's home. For residents waiting on broadband, the policy dispute is less abstract than the paperwork makes it look.
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