West Virginia paid $22K each for Internet routers

Devices made for college campuses now in small libraries

By Eric Eyre | Charleston Gazette | May 5, 2012

West Virginia used $126 million in government stimulus money to expand high-speed Internet access across the state. But the Charleston Gazette found that much of that money was misspent purchasing high-powered routers that could have functioned for a large university or medical institution for tiny libraries.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Nobody told Hurricane librarian Rebecca Elliot that the $22,600 Internet router in the branch library's storage closet was powerful enough to serve an entire college campus.

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Update: Hearing will examine secretive Pittsburgh nonprofit

A state lawmaker has scheduled a public hearing to examine the legality of a secretive Pittsburgh nonprofit group that has been running television ads critical of Gov. Tom Corbett.

“Clearly, they are trying to influence the outcome of elections,” said state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry, about Pennsylvanians for Accountability. “The law requires if they make these kinds of expenditures they have to report that.”

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