New WA laws start to close public broadband gap — but it’s a small step

Beddo’s 18-year-old daughter, meanwhile, struggled to connect to her Running Start community college classes from home. Anytime Beddo heard a heavy sigh from her daughter’s room, she knew her daughter had lost the internet, too.

Nearby, Heidi Campo and her husband were having similar problems. They struggled to log in to their business email account and their QuickBooks accounting software at the same time, making it difficult to manage their home business, a bicycle repair shop.

“I would just have to take some serious deep breaths,” said Campo, who lives less than a mile away from Beddo in Kingston.

Beddo and Campo are among hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians who

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