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Blog the Budget! Commerce and Trade
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2 responses to “Blog the Budget! Commerce and Trade”
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How about DMBE’s loan program? One loan made with a new goal of 2! Who got that loan? How did that entity rise above Virginia’s other 200,000 businesses to snag it?
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Provide funding to expand rural access to broadband technology
Provides additional funding to expand rural access to broadband technology. Of the funding provided,$3.0 million in the first year will be used to fund the costs for engineering and permitting related to expansion of a broadband network to the Eastern Shore and other rural Tidewater areas in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula;
$500,000 in each year will be used to fund feasibility studies of best last-mile solutions for other rural areas; and
$200,000 in the first year will be used to support the extension of broadband infrastructure from the Crossroads Institute in the City of Galax to business and customer locations in Carroll and Grayson Counties, the City of Galax, and the Town of Independence.
For 2007, $3.7 million (GF). For 2008, $500,000 (GF).
***Why does the state pay for broadband technology? Why not Comcast or Verizon?
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