Senator Landrieu Promotes Rural Broadband Internet Access
Senator Mary Landrieu spoke at the Lincoln Parish Library in Ruston, Louisiana on Monday April 13, 2008. She sought to encourage smaller communities in Louisiana to make applications for grants for funding installation of rural broadband Internet access pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Senator Landrieu and the Obama administration are concerned with closing the "digital divide" which has resulted in urban and high income areas having accesss to broadband Internet and rural and low income areas lacking such access.
According to Landrieu, the federal stimulus plan will provide approximately $3 billion for creating increased rural and low income broadband internet access.
For more on this story see the news article in the Ruston Daily Leader on Tuesday April 14, 2009 by Laura Bond entitled, Landrieu Lauds Broadband.
