New Hampshire
New Hampshire is All-In for Broadband
Friday, September 9, 2022
Weekly Digest
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Spherical-Up for the Week of September 5-9, 2022
Broadband is the way forward for New Hampshire, we reported in June because the state was one of many first to win approval from the U.S. Treasury for plans to make use of Capital Tasks Fund help to increase the attain of broadband networks. On September 8, we realized that New Hampshire is as soon as once more main the way in which—now it’s the first state to achieve approval for a second wave of Capital Tasks Fund help. New Hampshire’s plans are designed to attach 80% of places within the state nonetheless missing high-speed web entry.
In June we realized of New Hampshire’s Broadband Contract Program, which gives broadband service suppliers a monetary incentive to deliver service to unserved and underserved addresses in the state—areas/addresses the place it might be financially detrimental for suppliers to aim to broaden. On the time, New Hampshire hoped that the Broadband Contract Program might join half of the state’s unserved places with $50 million (40%) of the state’s Capital Tasks Fund allotment.
This week Treasury accredited New Hampshire’s second plan to spend money on broadband infrastructure to offer high-speed web to places that lack entry to ample service. In whole, New Hampshire is utilizing $122 million—100% of its Capital Tasks Fund funding—for broadband infrastructure to achieve an estimated 24,000 places, or 80% of places nonetheless missing high-speed web entry within the state. In whole, New Hampshire’s plans for Capital Tasks Fund help will assist join greater than 24,000 houses and companies to reasonably priced, high-speed web.
New Hampshire is launching a second program, the Broadband Matching Grant Initiative, a aggressive grant program designed to fund broadband infrastructure tasks to deliver high-speed web to areas at present missing service of 100/20 Mbps. The Broadband Matching Grant Initiative will present a state match to both a broadband web entry service supplier or a New Hampshire municipality to construct web infrastructure in areas of the state that, due to their topography, location, or price, haven’t been capable of entry broadband web. This system’s match is designed to alleviate the fiscal influence of community-driven broadband funding for each the broadband suppliers and municipalities, in addition to scale back the reliance on bonding.
New Hampshire’s packages are designed to offer web service with speeds of 100/100 Mbps symmetrical to households and companies upon undertaking completion. Upon completion, the operator(s) of those networks will take part within the Federal Communications Fee’s new Reasonably priced Connectivity Program which helps make sure that low-income households can afford the high-speed web they want for work, college, healthcare, and extra by offering a reduction of as much as $30 monthly. The operator(s) should embrace at the very least one low-cost choice provided at speeds which can be ample for a family with a number of customers to concurrently telework and have interaction in distant studying.
As with the Broadband Contract Program, the Broadband Matching Grant Initiative will likely be overseen by the New Hampshire Division of Enterprise and Financial Affairs. Funding networks have to be deployed by December 31, 2026.
This previous summer season, the New Hampshire Division of Enterprise and Financial Affairs issued a request for proposal looking for contractors to conduct a statewide broadband construct to attach as many unserved and underserved addresses of residents and companies as doable. To this point, the state has obtained seven proposals. The profitable bidder will likely be awarded a portion of the allotted Capital Tasks Fund funds, to not exceed $50 million. The continued operation and upkeep of the undertaking would be the sole duty of the awarded applicant.
The proposals will likely be evaluated on a 100-point scale: a most of 35 factors for total technique and strategy, 25 for expertise and {qualifications}, 20 for provided speeds, and 15 for price per unserved location.
The New Hampshire Division of Enterprise and Financial Affairs expects to inform the profitable bidder by September 23, 2022.
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New Hampshire
The Big Question: How do you stay civically engaged in NH?
This is NHPR’s The Big Question. We ask you a question about life in New Hampshire, you submit an answer, and your voice may be featured on air or online.
Granite Staters are heading to the polls to cast their votes in local and national elections. Voting is one important way to be civically engaged, but it’s not the only way.
For October’s Big Question, we asked you: How do you stay civically engaged in New Hampshire?
Here’s what some of you said.
Peter – Greenland, NH: I’m a board member of the Japan American Society of New Hampshire, which seeks to keep the Treaty of Portsmouth alive, which was signed in 1905. I’m also a board member of the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, whose motto is ‘We bring the world to New Hampshire and New Hampshire to the world.’ I work with some of my fellow citizens on two Greenland committees, and I get a lot of satisfaction from that one, that I’m making a difference and not just sitting and complaining about things and the people who are similarly motivated as I am are really interesting people that I am glad to include in my circle of friends.
John – Londonderry, NH: I’ve done a number of other things. I will be a poll watcher on Tuesday. I have written letters to the editor a few times. When we moved to Londonderry, I attended the deliberative sessions just to see what the town issues were like. I guess I just find the time because it’s important… I feel it’s important for the community. I try to listen more than talk. I think I try not to get into heated discussions with anybody about politics, and I just try to do little things that I can. You don’t have to spend a lot of time writing a letter to the editor. [It] takes a little time or a little thought, and often it’s not just sitting down, but while I’m out walking or something, thinking about it so it doesn’t have to take a lot of time. It just takes some thought and willingness to do it.
Katie – Durham, NH: I started volunteering at the polls a few years ago and found that that was just a fun way to see all the people in town that you only see once every four years. But I volunteer at the polls and most of all, what I’ve really started doing lately is canvassing, because it’s one of the most effective things you can do for your candidates. Everybody thinks it’s a terrible thing to do to go up and knock on strangers’ doors, but it’s actually really fun to get to talk to people and hopefully make a difference in who you’re trying to get elected. What’s amazing to me is people actually recognize me or recognize at least my name from the town council. And some people will talk to you for 20 minutes and some people will talk to you for a minute and a half. But it’s a connection of some sort, because we’re either talking about their Halloween decorations or their dogs and then politics, too. But it is building connections in the community.
Eric Baxter – Manchester, NH: I created a small little free art gallery and it had some surprising dividends. I opened it up because I thought it was interesting and I thought people would appreciate art, but since then it’s become sort of a community fixture, and I think it’s helped build the character of the neighborhood and the fabric of the neighborhood. So it’s nothing that would be, I guess, could be characterized as like strict civic engagement where you’re going out and getting people to vote. Or at least that’s what I would think. But it is getting people to take an active interest in where they live, and improving the streets and making it seem less just like a place to exist in, more like a place to call home.
New Hampshire
Trump campaign 'expanding the map,' Vance says in New Hampshire
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is predicting a Trump victory in New Hampshire on Election Day, telling voters there that the campaign is “expanding the map” compared to past presidential races.
“I believe that in two days we’re going to turn New Hampshire red and make Donald Trump the next president of the United States,” the Ohio senator and Trump’s running mate told a crowd in Derry on Sunday night.
“I got to be honest, a couple of months ago, I wasn’t necessarily sure that the day before the last full day of the campaign, we’d be in the great state of New Hampshire. But I think that it suggests that what we’re doing is expanding the map,” Vance continued. “We’re bringing new voters into this coalition and for the folks in New Hampshire who want to live free, we are the only ticket in town, Donald J. Trump is the only president for you.”
Vance said a margin of just .37% in 2016 “was the difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.”
HARRIS PICKS UP ENDORSEMENTS FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS
The state went blue that year, and then in 2020 President Biden defeated Trump in New Hampshire 52.9 to 45.5%.
“I think what’s different this time around is that we have seen for the last four years the incredible failures of Kamala Harris’s governance and the way that it has affected people in this great state as much as anybody else in the union,” Vance said Sunday.
GOP CANDIDATE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE POINTS OUT DEMOCRAT OPPONENT IS A MILLIONAIRE AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF FAVORING RICH
“I’ve heard already since I’ve been in the state of New Hampshire, about the terrible toll of Kamala Harris’ open border, about the migrant crisis that has made its way hundreds of miles from the American southern border, right here to the state of New Hampshire,” Vance added. “I hear from New Hampshire families who can’t afford the cost of groceries, who can’t afford to buy a home, and I think our message in just two days to Kamala Harris is going to be very simple and my running mate loves to say it, you are fired. Go back to San Francisco, where you belong. We don’t want you in the White House.”
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In the final Fox News Power Rankings forecast before Election Day, New Hampshire was placed in the “leans Dem” category.
New Hampshire
JD Vance says “we’re going to turn New Hampshire red” at Derry rally
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