Legislative Counsel @WBKLaw
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Slate Herman retweeted
Breaking: Cale Makar has agreed to an eight-year contract extension with the Avalanche, the team announced.
The deal carries a $20.4M average annual value and will make him the highest-paid player in NHL history, according to @emilymkaplan.
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Assistant Secretary @ArielleRothNTIA toured @IridiumComm's Satellite Network Operations Center today in Leesburg, VA — getting a firsthand look at the cutting-edge technology behind their global network. Special thanks to @IridiumBoss Matt Desch for the tour!
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Congrats to our very own Doug Kinkoph for being selected for the FCBA Excellence in Government Service Award! This recognition is incredibly well deserved. Doug’s leadership has been vital to NTIA’s success in broadband policy, and I am deeply grateful to be his colleague.
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Great week in Geneva! @ArielleRothNTIA & her team built support for @ITUSecGen Doreen Bogdan-Martin’s bid for re-election, convened important bilats with key countries in advance of WRC27, and spoke at Council to urge for key protections in the host country agreement with China.
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Hundreds of Colorado business leaders call for action as nearly 100 companies leave the state cbsnews.com/colorado/news/co…
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@ArielleRothNTIA met with members of @HouseCommerce during their FirstNet reauthorization markup—legislation that would strengthen oversight of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network, delivering better outcomes for first responders & the communities they serve.
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The “unserved” sites D.C. wanted taxpayers to subsidize:
• Shed along train tracks
• Open field
• Catholic University field house
• Pepco utility facility
• Construction trailer next to visible fiber
After our review, D.C. acknowledged no locations required federal $.
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NEW @WSJopinion piece:
How two hours, snow boots, & basic oversight turned a $4M broadband project into $0.
D.C. asked @NTIAgov for $4M to connect just 55 “unserved” locations.
That’s $70K each in one of the most broadband-dense cities in America.🚩
Something didn’t add up.🧵
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USA Hockey announces that it has eclipsed 100,000 girls & women’s hockey players for the first time in its history.
Joanna Gilligan, 13, from Millcreek, Utah, was officially the 100,000th registrant. Gilligan plays in the Utah Mammoth’s new all-girls league.
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Here’s an example of what I mean. When my parents moved to Parsons, Kansas in 1977, they knew literally nobody and had virtually nothing as they hadn’t started working. A local family helped us out. They helped us move into our house (in a rainstorm, I remember). The mom took care of me and my sister a few times when my parents had to work. I can still hear their dad talking to me about Paul Harvey and bailing hay and why America was a great place. Their son, who was my age, became my best friend from elementary school on (a captain of the football team, he made a point to be at my high school violin recital at a certain social cost to him!).
Yesterday, I visited with Mrs. Bowen at her house—the same one they moved into in 1981, the one where they introduced me to chicken and biscuits and jello salad, the one where her son and I played pickup basketball in the driveway, the one where a group of friends said goodbye and scattered to the wind after high school graduation.
As our visit ended yesterday and my kids and I got ready to go, she emphasized that I would always have a home at the Bowen residence. “You’re family. You always were and you always will be”—almost 50 years after they made my family feel at home.
That’s America to me. 🇺🇸
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What’s next for the BEAD Program?
With the Department of Commerce reshaping its approach, @thejoekane , @MPORielly, @NatPurser, Stephanie Weiner, and @SlateHerman discussed how the BEAD Program's mission to close the digital divide is changing—and whether the new direction helps or hinders that goal.
Watch the full discussion:
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Leader Thune filed cloture on Executive Calendar #91 Arielle Roth to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information.
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In @Newsweek, @ZephyrTeachout & I write how the #TikTok case has hindered #BigTech's use of First Amendment doctrines. TL/DR: the 1A can no longer be used as a tool for them to smother our liberties or act with reckless abandon. newsweek.com/supreme-court-w…
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President Trump is exactly right.
America must continue to lead the world in wireless. Doing so is vital to our economic growth and national security.
This will be a big win for the country! 🇺🇸
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Bruh, @tiktok_us had years to secure American data or take the company public/divest — you chose to do neither
Instead you’ve been caught spying on Americans and refuse to let American companies participate in your market.
This is 100% your choice
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The Encryption Compendium, a resource of encryption policy, launches today! Available at encryptioncompendium.org Special thanks to @SlateHerman,@JRegenie, Stacey Weber, as well as @CUBoulderTCP @CUEngineering students @sbrunston, Will Shand, and Pranav Gummaraj Srinivas.