Bill Callahan
@cycbill.bsky.social
NE Ohio / Old grassroots digital equity hand / Data has its uses / Don't mourn, organize!
Cleveland.com (online Plain Dealer) does a daily podcast of Editor Chris Quinn and a few colleagues yakking about various topics. Then they publish one or more AI summaries of each yak session packaged as actual news stories -- with Quinn's takes always quoted at length. Do other papers do this?
November 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Cleveland.com (online Plain Dealer) does a daily podcast of Editor Chris Quinn and a few colleagues yakking about various topics. Then they publish one or more AI summaries of each yak session packaged as actual news stories -- with Quinn's takes always quoted at length. Do other papers do this?
No Kings rally this afternoon in Meadville (pop 12-13K), Crawford County, PA.
October 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
No Kings rally this afternoon in Meadville (pop 12-13K), Crawford County, PA.
As quoted by @neotrans.bsky.social today, Gov DeWine and Dev't Director Mihalik eloquently point out that Ohio has a serious digital divide in cities as well as rural areas. Great! So please tell us how you plan to replace the $24 mil in cancelled Federal $$ for the OH Digital Opportunity Plan... /1
October 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
As quoted by @neotrans.bsky.social today, Gov DeWine and Dev't Director Mihalik eloquently point out that Ohio has a serious digital divide in cities as well as rural areas. Great! So please tell us how you plan to replace the $24 mil in cancelled Federal $$ for the OH Digital Opportunity Plan... /1
New American Community Survey: More than a million Ohio households still lacked home wireline broadband at any speed in 2024, and most lived in urban areas.
September 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New American Community Survey: More than a million Ohio households still lacked home wireline broadband at any speed in 2024, and most lived in urban areas.
Doug, I calculate that the companies on your list got 44% of the dollars awarded by Ohio, not 54%. Big winner among them was Spectrum, as expected, with 29%. But that still includes just 14% of the state's BSLs compared to Starlink's 41%.
September 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Doug, I calculate that the companies on your list got 44% of the dollars awarded by Ohio, not 54%. Big winner among them was Spectrum, as expected, with 29%. But that still includes just 14% of the state's BSLs compared to Starlink's 41%.
Of 30 states that posted their BEAD "Final Proposals" by Friday, Ohio is WAY ahead of the pack in diverting its underconnected rural residents from fiber to SpaceX. FYI @karlbode.com @dougdawsonccg.bsky.social @seangon.bsky.social @daviddewitt.bsky.social @sportshotchris.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Of 30 states that posted their BEAD "Final Proposals" by Friday, Ohio is WAY ahead of the pack in diverting its underconnected rural residents from fiber to SpaceX. FYI @karlbode.com @dougdawsonccg.bsky.social @seangon.bsky.social @daviddewitt.bsky.social @sportshotchris.bsky.social
BroadbandOhio published its BEAD Final Proposal "for public comment" yesterday. No press release and so far, no press. (Comment period ends next Wednesday.) Proposal only covers 72K of Ohio's 114K eligible locations, and awards 31K of those (43%) to StarLink @ $1652 each. Train wreck in progress.
August 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
BroadbandOhio published its BEAD Final Proposal "for public comment" yesterday. No press release and so far, no press. (Comment period ends next Wednesday.) Proposal only covers 72K of Ohio's 114K eligible locations, and awards 31K of those (43%) to StarLink @ $1652 each. Train wreck in progress.
The price of Trump's Bolsonaro Tariff at the Pierpont, OH Dollar General, 8/23/25.
August 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The price of Trump's Bolsonaro Tariff at the Pierpont, OH Dollar General, 8/23/25.
This is from my Rep Dave Joyce (R OH-14), who seems to think TRMC, struggling to reopen after being bankrupted by Steward Health, is a rural hospital. (It's in Warren, a city of 40,000 in an SMSA of 400,000.) Not mentioned: Joyce's vote to cut Medicaid reduced TRMC's income prospects by $millions.
August 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is from my Rep Dave Joyce (R OH-14), who seems to think TRMC, struggling to reopen after being bankrupted by Steward Health, is a rural hospital. (It's in Warren, a city of 40,000 in an SMSA of 400,000.) Not mentioned: Joyce's vote to cut Medicaid reduced TRMC's income prospects by $millions.
Or how about Youngstown?
July 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Or how about Youngstown?
BroadbandOhio just posted a final list of 117,652 "unserved or underserved" Ohio locations eligible for $793 million in BEAD rural broadband subsidies -- $6,740 apiece. But without Digital Equity Act $$, BBOH now has zero $$ for the million Ohio households that lack home broadband for other reasons.
June 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
BroadbandOhio just posted a final list of 117,652 "unserved or underserved" Ohio locations eligible for $793 million in BEAD rural broadband subsidies -- $6,740 apiece. But without Digital Equity Act $$, BBOH now has zero $$ for the million Ohio households that lack home broadband for other reasons.
My Congressman on X pretending he didn't just vote to push thousands of his own working constituents off Medicaid and SNAP, shift hundreds of $millions in costs onto the state, cripple the courts, let AI scams proliferate, explode the debt, and so much more. Many commenters are not fooled.
May 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My Congressman on X pretending he didn't just vote to push thousands of his own working constituents off Medicaid and SNAP, shift hundreds of $millions in costs onto the state, cripple the courts, let AI scams proliferate, explode the debt, and so much more. Many commenters are not fooled.
Same map for Detroit.
May 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Same map for Detroit.
New FCC Broadband Map with Dec 2024 data dropped yesterday. Here are the areas of Cleveland and the adjacent suburbs where AT&T claimed to offer Internet speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up (fiber, DSL or fixed wireless) to at least half of residential locations, as of five months ago.
May 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
New FCC Broadband Map with Dec 2024 data dropped yesterday. Here are the areas of Cleveland and the adjacent suburbs where AT&T claimed to offer Internet speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up (fiber, DSL or fixed wireless) to at least half of residential locations, as of five months ago.
What a difference a day makes -- US Commerce Dept's BroadbandUSA "Digital Equity Act Programs" web page, yesterday and today. Trump Administration vanishes $2 billion set aside by Congress to help low-income Americans, veterans, rural residents, underconnected minority communities, etc. get on line.
May 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
What a difference a day makes -- US Commerce Dept's BroadbandUSA "Digital Equity Act Programs" web page, yesterday and today. Trump Administration vanishes $2 billion set aside by Congress to help low-income Americans, veterans, rural residents, underconnected minority communities, etc. get on line.
70% of US households lacking wireline Internet in 2023 were in urban, not rural, areas. Trump, Lutnick and GOP Senators are eager to drop tens of billions of $ on Starlink and fiber subsidies for rural residents, but determined to block < $3 B to help underconnected urban (and rural poor) Americans.
May 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
70% of US households lacking wireline Internet in 2023 were in urban, not rural, areas. Trump, Lutnick and GOP Senators are eager to drop tens of billions of $ on Starlink and fiber subsidies for rural residents, but determined to block < $3 B to help underconnected urban (and rural poor) Americans.
The deep-red DeWine Administration just finished soliciting competitive proposals from Ohio communities for $12 million of the state's "racist, illegal, unconstitutional" Digital Equity Act funding.
May 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The deep-red DeWine Administration just finished soliciting competitive proposals from Ohio communities for $12 million of the state's "racist, illegal, unconstitutional" Digital Equity Act funding.
under way in the meantime. Here's the FCC's "Funding Map" showing more than 640 broadband projects, covering 700,000 consumer locations, that were awarded CCPF funding in 2022 or 2023, and must be complete by the end of next year.
March 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
under way in the meantime. Here's the FCC's "Funding Map" showing more than 640 broadband projects, covering 700,000 consumer locations, that were awarded CCPF funding in 2022 or 2023, and must be complete by the end of next year.
Wife just received a big check and notice of her SS payment hike from the Social Security Fairness Act. Thanks, Sherrod Brown!!! But... with three million retirees getting these RIGHT NOW thanks to efforts of Dems and labor, shouldn't the Dems have a messaging strategy about it? The other guys do.
March 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Wife just received a big check and notice of her SS payment hike from the Social Security Fairness Act. Thanks, Sherrod Brown!!! But... with three million retirees getting these RIGHT NOW thanks to efforts of Dems and labor, shouldn't the Dems have a messaging strategy about it? The other guys do.
Seven hundred rallied for Ukraine yesterday at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Parma, OH. instagram.com/clevelandmaidan/
March 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Seven hundred rallied for Ukraine yesterday at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Parma, OH. instagram.com/clevelandmaidan/
Perhaps Carr will look into Verizon's equity and inclusion policies with respect to residential fiber deployment in Baltimore and its suburbs.
March 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Perhaps Carr will look into Verizon's equity and inclusion policies with respect to residential fiber deployment in Baltimore and its suburbs.
Here's Ohio Medicaid's dashboard showing residents covered by ACA-expanded Medicaid in Jan '25 in the five counties Joyce represents. These are low-income working-age adults. In Joyce's district they're 78% White (it's 62% statewide) and majority male; if they voted it was probably for Trump. /2
February 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Here's Ohio Medicaid's dashboard showing residents covered by ACA-expanded Medicaid in Jan '25 in the five counties Joyce represents. These are low-income working-age adults. In Joyce's district they're 78% White (it's 62% statewide) and majority male; if they voted it was probably for Trump. /2
