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Internet Association Opens Texas Office And Hires State Government Affairs Southern Region Director

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Hines will also cover Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, which include an additional 1,366,000 American internet sector jobs.

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How Fast-Acting New Orleans Won Over the NBA

Associations Now

After the NBA announced it would move its All-Star Game game from Charlotte, North Carolina, because of discrimination concerns, New Orleans worked quickly to put together a bid that focused on creating a welcoming environment. Almost immediately after news of the potential move broke last month, Louisiana Gov.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.27.20

Reid All About it

You’ve probably seen stories about distillers in your area who are now producing hand sanitizer—I know they are in my part of North Carolina. If you’re in my part of North Carolina, your donation to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina goes even further this month.

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Game Theory: How the NBA Decided to Move the 2017 All-Star Game From Charlotte

Associations Now

After careful consideration, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver made the call to move the 2017 NBA All-Star Game out of North Carolina, in protest of the state’s controversial HB2 law. I think they realize that we very much would like to play next year’s All-Star Game in North Carolina, as I’ve said before.”

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Groups Release Local Government Broadband Resource Guide

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Six cities that are part of NRN—Chattanooga, Tennessee; Gonzales, California; Greensboro, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; Springfield, Missouri; and Youngstown, Ohio—collaborated on drawing up the resource.

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Out of Bloom: Lessons from a Nonprofit’s Demise

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Most notable was the situation in Louisiana, where parents discovered that Social Security numbers were being used to classify students in the database. But support from the states dissipated quickly as parents (and then legislators [PDF]) raised the privacy concerns.

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New Battlefront: Same-Sex Spouse Benefits and the National Guard

Associations Now

Politicians in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Mississippi have worked to block gay and lesbian National Guard members’ spouses from receiving benefits based on state law not recognizing same-sex marriage. This is not what equal treatment under the law looks like.”