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City focusing on two sections to complete fiber-to-the-home internet

In Announcements by Randon Brown

View original article at the Houston Herald. Members of the Houston City Council last week hired a firm that will help accelerate connections to its Fiber-to-the-Home internet system that began construction about two years ago. The council budgeted $14,000 for the work across the city, which is divided into areas to make oversight of the system more manageable. Each is called …

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Questions, answers on Houston’s ambitious fiber project

In Announcements by Randon Brown

View original article at the Houston Herald. A City of Houston fiber-to-the-home internet project is the most ambitious utility effort in modern Houston history. When completed, homes and businesses will have access to speeds that rival that of metropolitan areas. Randon Brown, technology director for the City of Houston, provides answers to frequently asked questions. Question: Why does it take so …

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Upholding the law

In Announcements by Randon Brown

View original article at the Houston Herald. To say that personnel with the Houston Police Department were busy in 2022 could easily be called an understatement. Officers were dispatched 9,127 times during the year. “We had a lot of calls last year,” said HPD Chief Brad Evans. “It was very hard to keep up.” Even with a full staff, that kind …

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Organization awarded tax credits for new Houston library

In Announcements by Randon Brown

Efforts to construct a new branch of the Texas County Library in Houston received a big boost last week with a $350,000 award of state tax credits. The Missouri Department of Economic Development presented Texas County Library Foundation Inc. the funds under the Neighborhood Assistance Program. It is a not-for-profit corporation that has led other library construction projects in the …