April 22, 2024 archive

Broadband—serving the “dark” areas of Oklahoma

  As the state moves forward on nearly a half-billion dollars in projects to expand broadband coverage to remote rural areas of Oklahoma, the man in charge says it’s something of a repeat of the rural electrification effort nearly 90 years ago. Writing in The Oklahoman over the weekend, Mike Sanders, executive director of the …

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Project begins to make sure Interstate doesn’t collapse into abandoned coal mine

    While Oklahoma’s Department of Environmental Quality has major projects, probably none are anything like the $10.5 million project in Wyoming where its DEQ is pumping cement into an old abandoned coal mine under Interstate 80 to make sure the Interstate doesn’t collapse. The project is near Rock Springs, Wyoming where underground mines are …

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