{"id":2631,"date":"2010-09-13T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2010-09-28T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:19:42","slug":"st-regis-mohawks-get-10-5-million-in-federal-stimulus-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/13\/st-regis-mohawks-get-10-5-million-in-federal-stimulus-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"St Regis Mohawks get $10.5 million in federal stimulus funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack announced today the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would be used to connect the northern New York reservation to the Internet via high-speed broadband.<\/p>\n<p>The money comes from the $787 billion stimulus act approved by Congress shortly after President Barack Obama took office in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. government\u2019s website\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.recovery.gov\/Pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">recovery.gov<\/a>\u2014the federal money will be used by the St Regis Mohawks to link approximately 68 miles of fiber network to other broadband networks funded by the Recovery Act.<\/p>\n<p>In other numbers from the web site: Nearly 4,000 people, 200 businesses and 42 community institutions will benefit from this new, high-speed Internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also estimated that more than 784 jobs will be created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack announced today the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4819],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}