State rep. ryan williams articles
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BEAD Project Area Possibilities: Rules Vary a Lot from State to State
BEAD Project Area Possibilities: Rules Vary a Lot from State to State Rules for the $42.5 billion BEAD rural broadband funding program give individual states considerable leeway in how they define project areas – and broadband providers applying for funding should expect to see considerable variation from one state to the next. Telecompetitor
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Opinion: Californians love the state's parks. We just don't know they're state parks
When Dos Rios Ranch opens to visitors next month in the San Joaquin Valley, California will have 280 state parks — making it one of the nation’s largest systems, as well as one of its most popular, with about 70 million visitors a year. Who knew? The short answer is: hardly anyone. Over the past 20 years I’ve asked several thousand Californians to name five state parks. Fewer than 5% can do so. And most of these baffled respondents are outdoorsy folks — the kind of people I meet on the trail or...
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Former state representative, state senator James David Cain dies
BATON ROUGE — Former state representative and state senator James David Cain died May 8. He was 85.Cain, a Republican, served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for 20 years and the Senate for 16 years. During his tenure, Cain led the Insurance and Agriculture & Natural Resources committees. He also ran for insurance commissioner in 2006, a statement from current commissioner Tim Temple said."I want to express my deepest condolences to Senator Cain’s family, friends and...