Minnesota Non-Profits Receive $440,000 to Fight Keystone XL Pipeline On Monday, the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota released an Accountability Alert that showed three Minnesota environmental non-profit advocacy groups received nearly half a million dollars in out-of-state funding to oppose the Keystone oil pipeline project. The funding, provided by a well-known liberal …
Broadband
City of Arlington’s Likely Rejection of Broadband Plan a Big Blow to Proposed $70M Network
City council majority signals opposition amid concern over taxpayer risk and role of government The city with the greatest number of potential subscribers for the proposed $70 million public broadband network in Renville and Sibley counties is poised to pull out of the project, taking 12 percent of the system’s population base with them. The Arlington City Council is expected to vote today …
City of Minneapolis Wi-Fi Digital Inclusion Fund (DIF) Comes Up $1 Million Short
Only 2012 grant to date goes to the city for survey MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Expectations for Wireless Minneapolis, the city’s municipal wireless broadband network, were off the charts from the start. The 2006 deal between Minneapolis and private provider USI Wireless was hailed as “far beyond what any other city in the country has negotiated” by city officials. The venture promised and …