Rockaway’s Wave Seeks to Rebuild a Neighborhood, and a Newspaper

Six weeks after Hurricane Sandy tore through the Rockaways, pouring five feet of seawater into Kevin Boyle’s home, the part-time adjunct professor and one-time bar owner found himself rebuilding not just his house of 20 years but the peninsula’s 120-year-old weekly newspaper and the community that depends on it. On Oct. 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy, …

Small Towns Seek to Own Broadband Despite Opposition from Telcos

James Sposto and his wife, Caroline, moved their Web design company to this rural Pennsylvania Dutch town, drawn by its bucolic surroundings and its ambitious plan for its own state-of-the-art communications network. Kutztown, with a population of 5,000, had grown frustrated that its local telecom providers were slow to offer residents, and especially businesses, the …

Leon Lazaroff