Ann Treacy
@annstp.bsky.social
Following rural broadband in Minnesota by day. Seeing live music at night. Hosting Mostly MN Music radio show on weekends.
OPPORTUNITY: Google AI Essentials Training at NO COST! wp.me/p3if7-bQe
OPPORTUNITY: Google AI Essentials Training at NO COST!
I got this from the NDIA Listserv – and I double checked to make sure it wasn’t just for the Palmetto community… Palmetto Goodwill is offering Google AI Essentials and Google Prom…
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December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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OPPORTUNITY AT Net Inclusion: Voices of Digital Inclusion: A Creative Showcase of Art, Music, and Words Participant Form wp.me/p3if7-bQb
OPPORTUNITY AT Net Inclusion: Voices of Digital Inclusion: A Creative Showcase of Art, Music, and Words Participant Form
Net Inclusion is happening in Chicago Feb 3-5. If you are (or are thinking about) attending, here’s a bonus opportunity… Voices of Digital Inclusion: A Creative Showcase of Art, Music, …
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December 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
OPPORTUNITY AT Net Inclusion: Voices of Digital Inclusion: A Creative Showcase of Art, Music, and Words Participant Form wp.me/p3if7-bQb
Willmar Connect bids to build open-access broadband are coming in wp.me/p3if7-bPU
Willmar Connect bids to build open-access broadband are coming in
The West Central Tribune reports… The West Central Tribune reports… The city of Willmar announced Wednesday that it opened bids for phase one of the city-wide, open-access broadband project k…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Willmar Connect bids to build open-access broadband are coming in wp.me/p3if7-bPU
The Happiness Gym: a gentler workout than I expected at the Mixed Blood @mostlymn.bsky.social @mixedblood.bsky.social @katyvernon.bsky.social wp.me/p7j1Ta-3dm
The Happiness Gym: a gentler workout than I expected at the Mixed Blood
Last night, I saw The Happiness Gym, at the Mixed Blood with two good friends. On paper, it’s not my cup of tea but my buddy Katy Vernon strongly recommended it. It’s not a play in the traditional …
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December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Happiness Gym: a gentler workout than I expected at the Mixed Blood @mostlymn.bsky.social @mixedblood.bsky.social @katyvernon.bsky.social wp.me/p7j1Ta-3dm
Doug Dawson says ISPs Need to Tackle Digital Inclusion wp.me/p3if7-bPO
Doug Dawson says ISPs Need to Tackle Digital Inclusion
Doug Dawson, from CCG Consulting says… I think it’s in the best interest of ISPs to step into the federal funding void to help tackle this issue. Very few ISPs have attempted to tackle the is…
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December 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Doug Dawson says ISPs Need to Tackle Digital Inclusion wp.me/p3if7-bPO
EVENT Dec 17: Office of Broadband Development BEAD Information Sessions wp.me/p3if7-bPG
EVENT Dec 17: Office of Broadband Development BEAD Information Sessions
An upcoming session from the Office of Broadband Development… Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 11:00 a.m., Minnesota Broadband Update webinar: Join the OBD for an update on the federal BEAD prog…
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December 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
EVENT Dec 17: Office of Broadband Development BEAD Information Sessions wp.me/p3if7-bPG
BEAD Rollout: Next Steps & Insights: Meeting notes and video wp.me/p3if7-bPi
BEAD Rollout: Next Steps & Insights: Meeting notes and video
Here’s a recording from the webinar yesterday from NRTC… A description of the session from the hosts… Join us for an in-depth session with state broadband office directors who wil…
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December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
BEAD Rollout: Next Steps & Insights: Meeting notes and video wp.me/p3if7-bPi
EVENT Dec 18: MN Broadband Task Force December meeting wp.me/p3if7-bPD
EVENT Dec 18: MN Broadband Task Force December meeting
From the Office of Broadband Development… The Broadband Task Force will be meeting on Thursday December 18 at 10am. This meeting will be held virtually and is open to anyone from the public t…
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December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
EVENT Dec 18: MN Broadband Task Force December meeting wp.me/p3if7-bPD
Mental health care is scarce for BIPOC residents in rural MN. Telehealth can help wp.me/p3if7-bPf
Mental health care is scarce for BIPOC residents in rural MN. Telehealth can help
KAXE reports… Finding a mental health provider in rural areas is hard but Minnesota researchers said it is much harder for communities of color in small towns and a new report laid out specific obs…
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December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Mental health care is scarce for BIPOC residents in rural MN. Telehealth can help wp.me/p3if7-bPf
Can affordable internet increase employment opportunities for low-income workers? wp.me/p3if7-bPc
Can affordable internet increase employment opportunities for low-income workers?
I can only access the abstract for this report – but sometimes the abstract can get you the info you need. (Not that I wouldn’t like to read the full article.) The research article (Can affor…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Can affordable internet increase employment opportunities for low-income workers? wp.me/p3if7-bPc
Take time for an important story: When big cyberattacks hit small towns wp.me/p3if7-bOP
Take time for an important story: When big cyberattacks hit small towns
Big thanks to Ben Winchester for the heads up on this one. Click Here is a podcast that “tells stories about the people making and breaking our digital world.” Last week, they focused on When…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Take time for an important story: When big cyberattacks hit small towns wp.me/p3if7-bOP
5 Questions with Anthony Newes on new EP Country Songs About Country releasing Dec 12, 2025 @mostlymn.bsky.social wp.me/p7j1Ta-3cU
5 Questions with Anthony Newes on new EP Country Songs About Country releasing Dec 12, 2025
Anthony Newes has a new EP coming out, Country Songs About Country. It’s unabashedly county and it’s the kind of pivot that I’ve come to love expecting from Anthony. So far, we’ve…
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December 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
5 Questions with Anthony Newes on new EP Country Songs About Country releasing Dec 12, 2025 @mostlymn.bsky.social wp.me/p7j1Ta-3cU
EVENT DEC 2: NRTC BEAD Rollout: Next Steps & Insights Webinar @mndeed wp.me/p3if7-bOL
EVENT DEC 2: NRTC BEAD Rollout: Next Steps & Insights Webinar
The NRTC is holding a webinar tomorrow that comes highly recommended. Bree Maki, director of the MN Office of Broadband Development is on the panel… BEAD Rollout: Next Steps & Insights Tu…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
EVENT DEC 2: NRTC BEAD Rollout: Next Steps & Insights Webinar @mndeed wp.me/p3if7-bOL
5 Questions with Carlisle Evans Peck on new album The Lines in My Hands playing Dec 4 at the Cedar Cultural Center @MostlyMn @TheCedar wp.me/p7j1Ta-3cL
5 Questions with Carlisle Evans Peck on new album The Lines in My Hands playing Dec 4 at the Cedar Cultural Center
Carlisle Evans Peck has a mystical and musical new album coming out called The Lines in My Hands. You can get a sneak peek on December 7, at the album release at the Cedar Cultural Center. Please t…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
5 Questions with Carlisle Evans Peck on new album The Lines in My Hands playing Dec 4 at the Cedar Cultural Center @MostlyMn @TheCedar wp.me/p7j1Ta-3cL
OPPORTUNITY: 2026 Ignite Cup are officially open, now! wp.me/p3if7-bOH
OPPORTUNITY: 2026 Ignite Cup are officially open, now!
Red Wing Ignite invites applications… If you’re an entrepreneur within the 11-county E1 region with a big idea—or an existing business ready to grow—this is your opportunity to compete for ca…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
OPPORTUNITY: 2026 Ignite Cup are officially open, now! wp.me/p3if7-bOH
Constantly checking your phone can drain your focus and memory wp.me/p3if7-bOD
Constantly checking your phone can drain your focus and memory
Here’s good information (or reminder) about smartphone use from the Washington Post, as summarized by the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society… For many of us, checking our phon…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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What are the economic benefits of broadband to a household? wp.me/p3if7-bMG
What are the economic benefits of broadband to a household?
I’m bringing back an old tradition – looking at how much money broadband can save a household right before the holidays set in. I’m bringing back the old tradition with a new spin, I’m using ChatGP…
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November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
What are the economic benefits of broadband to a household? wp.me/p3if7-bMG
Data Center Forum Follow Up: notes from the South-Central Minnesota Data Center Forum on November 12 wp.me/p3if7-bMA
Data Center Forum Follow Up: notes from the South-Central Minnesota Data Center Forum on November 12
I attended the South-Central Minnesota Data Center Forum earlier this month (and posted notes). Today, with permission, I’m happy to share the official notes from hosts Southern Minnesota Ini…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Data Center Forum Follow Up: notes from the South-Central Minnesota Data Center Forum on November 12 wp.me/p3if7-bMA
How do Data Centers Impact Dakota County? a Forum held in Farmington MN on August 20, 2025 wp.me/p3if7-bMx
How do Data Centers Impact Dakota County? a Forum held in Farmington MN on August 20, 2025
I’m slow posting this video. Sometimes you need a 7-hour drive to Chicago to catch up on videos. But the topic still seems timely. It’s from a session on Data Center Forum: Impacts in Dakota County…
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November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
How do Data Centers Impact Dakota County? a Forum held in Farmington MN on August 20, 2025 wp.me/p3if7-bMx
House Commerce Democrats tell Administration to implement BEAD Congress intended wp.me/p3if7-bMt
House Commerce Democrats tell Administration to implement BEAD Congress intended
The Benton Institute of Broadband & Society reports on a letter from the House Commerce Committee… We write to express our significant concerns with the National Telecommunications and In…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
House Commerce Democrats tell Administration to implement BEAD Congress intended wp.me/p3if7-bMt
very sad, needless and frustrating:
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
very sad, needless and frustrating:
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
White House launches the Genesis Mission to promote and support AI wp.me/p3if7-bMq
White House launches the Genesis Mission to promote and support AI
The White House announces launch of the Genesis Mission (summary of original borrowed from Benton Institute for Broadband & Society… America is in a race for global technology dominance i…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
White House launches the Genesis Mission to promote and support AI wp.me/p3if7-bMq
Bipartisan bill to fast-track broadband expansion by smoothing access to rights of way wp.me/p3if7-bMn
Bipartisan bill to fast-track broadband expansion by smoothing access to rights of way
Senator Blackburn’s website reports… U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) introduced the bipartisan Broadband and Telecommunications RAIL Act that would s…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Bipartisan bill to fast-track broadband expansion by smoothing access to rights of way wp.me/p3if7-bMn
Benton looks at WISPs’ place in BEAD wp.me/p3if7-bMk
Benton looks at WISPs’ place in BEAD
The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society took a look at whether WISPs are sufficient for BEAD funds… Sue Marek, Editorial Director of Ookla, has been looking at the speed performance of a v…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Benton looks at WISPs’ place in BEAD wp.me/p3if7-bMk
OPPORTUNITY: Agriculture Research, Education, Extension, And Technology Transfer Advisory Panel wp.me/p3if7-bMg
OPPORTUNITY: Agriculture Research, Education, Extension, And Technology Transfer Advisory Panel
The Agriculture Research, Education, Extension, And Technology Transfer Advisory Panel is looking for two new members. Here’s more info… Panel membership includes: one member each as na…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
OPPORTUNITY: Agriculture Research, Education, Extension, And Technology Transfer Advisory Panel wp.me/p3if7-bMg