{"id":2839,"date":"2010-09-29T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T11:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2010-09-29T07:49:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T11:49:18","slug":"morning-read-north-country-broadband-project-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/29\/morning-read-north-country-broadband-project-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  North Country broadband project rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that the $25 million dollar CBN broadband project &#8212; long touted as a major tool for developing the region&#8217;s economy &#8212; has been rejected.<\/p>\n<p>CBN president Howard Lowe told the paper that no other major sources of funding are on the horizon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The unfortunate thing about projects like this is they identify a very  large unmet need. We have done a lot of research. We have been able to  document how badly this infrastructure is needed in this area.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x74676291\/Local-broadband-network-snubbed-for-stimulus-funding\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcax.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=13148599\">read<\/a> more here about the $10.4 million broadband grant made earlier in the month to the Akewsasne Mohawk reservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that the $25 million dollar CBN broadband project &#8212; long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}