Alabama has committed $537 million in federal funds for high-speed Internet under plans state lawmakers and Gov. Kay Ivey approved last year and during a special session this month.
The money will be used for grants to help companies install the fiber cable and other equipment needed to deliver broadband to areas that don't have it.
If you took a nighttime plane ride across much of the rural South in the early 1900s, you would see nothing but darkness on the ground below because electricity at
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