Rural Glasgow wired for high speed Internet leads to mixed results
In Glasgow Kentucky high speed Internet arrived in 1994 with cable TV wiring and 54 channels for about 40 dollars a month. Officials say two thirds of area businesses and a quarter of households now pay for fast access, but long term impact remains evolving as rural towns test coordinated city use and regional expansion.
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Glasgow
Kentucky
America
Ycom
John Elway
Brian Dale
Bill Dear
Andy Carvin
Uas
Washington, D.C
Access
Billy Ray
Ray
MCI
Harlan
Iowa
Barbourville
Norfolk
Neb
Fort Morgan
Colo
Cathy Shull
Fort Morgan Area
Nancy Stark
National Center For Small Communities
Nesses
New York
Berlin
Benny Lile
Barren County Schools
Ann Stewart
Honduras
John Walbert
Walbert
Commonwealth Broadcasting
Steve Newberry
Roller skaters seek Olympic invite and sport sanction
LA embossed report from Lincoln Nebraska notes the US Roller Skating Championships drew about 10 000 fans yet lacked TV coverage. Advocates argue roller skating is a serious sport akin to ice hockey and figure skating and push renaming USA Roller Skating to USA Roller Sports to reflect inline skate growth.
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Lincoln
Neb
Gary Bair
Euclid
Ohio
Tara Lapinski
Don Milton
Orlando, Fla
Luca D'Alisera
Luca D’alisera
Milton
D’alisera
ESPN
Steve Tupe
USA Roller Skating
USA Roller Sports
Oklahoma Kiowa elders race to save language from extinction
In Carnegie six Kiowa elders aged 15 to 67 meet nightly at the tribal center to study Kiowa, aiming to reverse language loss after decades of assimilation and a surge of English use. They recall boarding school memories and stress the dwindling number of native speakers across tribes in North America.
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Carnegie
Okla
Dorothy Set
Ernest Toppah
Bobby Guoladie
Anadarko
Iowa
Kiowa
North America
Census Bureau
Greg Bigler
Oklahoma Native Language Association
American Southwest
Spam loving UND professor earns Quarter Ten Spam Award
Omer Larson, professor emeritus at the University of North Dakota, ate about 480 pounds of Spam over 20 years and received Hormel Foods Corp’s Quarter Ten Spam Award upon retirement. He recalls Spam lunches on campus and in his rural Minnesota upbringing, noting the meat’s origin and his preferred serving.
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Grand Forks
Omer Larson
University of North Dakota
Larson
Austin
Hormel Foods Corp
V. Allan Krejer
Hormel
Pencer
Minn
Minnesota
Roseau (Minn
UND
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Hormel Food Corp
Minot State University
US Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
Colo
Biology
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