Source: Natalie Anderson, SALISBURY POST, 11/30/20

 Nearly 30 N.C. Senate Republicans in a letter sent to Gov. Roy Cooper last week expressed their disagreement with a decision to halt more than $30 million in coronavirus funds set aside by state lawmakers for rural broadband expansion. House Bill 1105, passed by legislators and signed into law by the governor in September, allocated the remaining $1.1 billion federal CARES Act funding, with $32 million set aside for rural broadband expansion. The grants supplement the existing Growing Rural Economies through Access to Technology (GREAT) grant program.

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