- April 23, 2025THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED. SEE THE MOST RECENT UPDATE BELOW. On December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit lifted its…
- December 28, 2024On December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit lifted its stay of the district court's injunction -- thus, re-instating the injunction…
- July 27, 2021In March 2021, Congress approved $1.9 trillion under the American Rescue Plan Act (“Act”), which included emergency funding to respond…
- July 2, 2021On May 28, 2021, the United States Postal Service (USPS) filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) for rate…
- March 20, 2021The Texas Public Utilities Commission is cutting the amount of money from a fund that subsidizes rural Texas network services, creating a…
- March 20, 2021A recent publication to the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society explains how cooperatives are “the unsung heroes of broadband.” The…
- January 14, 2021In a new ruling, the Service considered the period of historical patronage business that should be used to calculate the gain…
- December 7, 2020The Farm Credit Administration has issued an updated informational memorandum for the purposes of providing Farm Credit System institutions with…
- November 25, 2020The USDA Rural Development Division and Cooperative Services Branch of the US Department of Agriculture reported that in 2019 co-ops…
- October 29, 2020October is National Cooperative Month. The USDA is holding a webinar about the resources available to support cooperative development in rural…
- October 2, 2020The New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, serving 115 mostly rural towns, is trying again to add delivering broadband internet to its…
- August 20, 2020In a lawsuit brought against a nonprofit, member-owned electric cooperative corporation, the plaintiff-members (“Plaintiffs”) alleged that Southwest Mississippi Electric Cooperative…
- July 15, 2020Legislation SB 373 was introduced to the Georgia General Assembly in early February 2020. The bill was fashioned after legislation…
- June 6, 2020The CARES Act included economic stimulus packages of $349 billion for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans and modified the existing…
- April 11, 2020In order to help to help rural residents, businesses, and communities affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, the USDA Rural Development office…
- April 11, 2020On April 2, 2020, the FCC adopted a new telehealth program. This is a $200 million program that will provide…
- April 7, 2020On March 27, 2020, the President signed into law the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES ACT). The…
- February 4, 2020On August 1, 2019, the Federal Communications Commission proposed closing the rural digital divide by establishing the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, which would…
- January 30, 2020On October 30, 2019, the Georgia Court of Appeals vacated, reversed, and remanded the denial of a cooperative bank's summary judgment motion on fiduciary duty and…
- December 18, 2019Notice 2019-43 updates and clarifies timeframes when an energy property must be in service, which is the end of a…
- March 18, 2019Pineland Telephone Cooperative has started laying fiber optic lines in Americus that will provide high internet speeds for businesses. The…
- January 7, 2019A new and innovative pilot program called ReConnect will offer federal financing in the form of loans, grants, and loan-grant…
- July 29, 2018Class-Action Lawsuit Focuses on Cooperative Board Compensation A South Carolina electric cooperative, Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc., was recently named in a…
- July 20, 2018Three executives of Eastern Oregon Telecom (EOT) announced in May they have purchased the internet and phone provider from its…
