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In Kansas City, Signing Up for Internet Becomes a Civic Cause

Source: New York Times | Kansas City | September 10, 2012

With Google’s promise last year to wire homes, schools, libraries and other public institutions in this city with the nation’s fastest Internet connection, community leaders on the long forlorn, predominantly black east side were excited, seeing a potentially uplifting force.

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