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Senate Farm Bill adds Rural Gigabit Amendment
The U.S. Senate just adopted an amendment to invest in gigabit
(1,000 megabit per second) rural broadband networks.
Our local leaders need to lobby for the House to pass this,
if they are serious about fast affordable Internet service for everyone here.
Senator Leahy’s tiny Vermont, with the population of a single Congressional district,
is already well along towards gigabit Internet.
Our three House members can help get south Georgia on the road to better
jobs, education, and health care through better Internet service.
Jennifer Reading wrote today for WCAX, Leahy’s high-speed internet amendment passes,
What I want to make sure is that a rural area can compete the same way an urban area can. It’s actually the argument, the debate that went on before I was even born about whether you had rural electricity, rural telephone or not and if we hadn’t done that much of this country would be a wasteland,” said Sen. Leahy.
Don’t we want that, too?
Continue readingFarm Bill Forum Friday in Tifton with Sen. Saxby Chambliss
Two farm bill forums Friday: one in Jesup at 9AM, and one in Tifton at 2PM,
both hosted by Senator Saxby Chambliss.
GA Ag. Commissioner Gary Black will be at the one in Tifton.
Might be a good place to mention you want
the farm bill to reauthorize USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP)
grants.
Might be a good place to mention you want
the farm bill to reauthorize USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP)
grants.
Press Release, 8 March 2012, Chambliss to Host 2012 Farm Bill Forum,
Events will be held March 16th in Jesup and Tifton-jsqOn Friday, March 16th, Sen. Chambliss will hold two forums to discuss the upcoming 2012 Farm Bill. The public is invited to attend.
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Altamaha Technical College
at 9 am
C. Paul Scott Polytechnical Center
1777 West Cherry Street
Jesup, GA 31545
Participants will include:
Zippy Duvall, Georgia Farm Bureau
Charles Hall, Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association
Robert Redding, Southern Peanut Farmers Federation
John Maguire , National Cotton CouncilFriday, March 16th
UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center
at 2 pm
15 RDC Road
Tifton, GA 31793
Participants will include:
Gary Black, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture
Charles Hall, Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association
Robert Redding, Southern Peanut Farmers Federation
John Maguire , National Cotton Council
RSVP Today for Federal Grants Workshop in Savannah, Oct 26th
Both Georgia Senators are holding a workshop in Savannah Monday October 26th
about federal grants.
To attend, you must register today, October 22nd.
I called Isakson’s office, and the woman who answered the phone said they hold one of these a year.
Last year it was in Atlanta, next year she thinks probably Macon.
So this year this is the only one.
Hm, I wonder how much of this is stimulus money that these two senators voted against?
Anyway, here’s the text of the press release of 7 October:
Continue readingIsakson, Chambliss to Host Federal Grants Workshop on October 26 in Savannah