Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pennsylvania will receive almost $130 million in stimulus funding for two projects designed at booting up a wired commonwealth and creating an estimated 1,000 jobs over the next two years.
Combined, the two projects should provide high-speed Internet access to nearly 3 million households and about 400,000 businesses. Pennsylvania’s haul Thursday accounts for almost 10 percent of the amount awarded nationwide in this first round of funding.
The projects will expand connectivity to rural areas — some now impeded by mountainous terrain — and continue the Obama administration’s pursuit of broadband access as a leg of economic recovery.
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