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During health crisis, rural Wisconsin struggles with poor internet service

Peter Cameron WisconsinWatch.org
Apr 1, 2020
Apr 1, 2020

Rural broadband problems at home — Traci Newcomer has set up a makeshift office in the bedroom of her rural home near Monroe, where she has poor internet service for her family during the coronavirus crisis.
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Peter Cameron WisconsinWatch.org

MADISON — The Newcomer household near Monroe is fairly typical for rural Wisconsin. It is surrounded by cornfields. The nearest neighbor is a quarter-mile down the road. And the internet is terrible.

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