How Big Internet Keeps Small Communities Disconnected
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🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A small parish in Louisiana tried to get affordable, fast internet. An incumbent ISP stopped them.
Guest: Issie Lapowsky, Wanda Manning
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:05.4 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time, |
| 1:13.9 | hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a |
| 1:17.6 | nice sweaty armpit because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamstered |
| 1:21.9 | teeth and you get to the top and you're like, oh, and then you can see the breath, but then |
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| 1:38.0 | One demanding is 58 and she's lived in East Carol Parish in Louisiana for her entire life. |
| 1:43.6 | We are in the northeastern part of the state. We pressed against the levee and on the other side of the levee is the Mississippi River. |
| 1:57.5 | It's a small rural place, mostly agricultural, on land that was once used for cotton plantations. |
| 2:05.1 | About 7,200 people live there now, more than the third of them below the poverty line, |
| 2:10.0 | and the opportunities to work or even shop or dwindling. We're down to a couple of like one family's |
| 2:18.8 | dollar store, one dollar general, we're not a very big community at all. There are three public |
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