Be heard: Governor Beshear’s Better Internet Initiative Listening Tour comes to Bowling Green

Bowling Green's mayor urges residents to join Governor Beshear's listening tour for fiber internet discussion

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Governor Andy Beshear will arrive in Bowling Green tomorrow, and he wants you to voice your high-speed internet priorities.

Beshear, along with The Office of Broadband Development, and the Education and Labor Cabinet are conducting this Better Internet Listening Tour in 14 cities to develop the state broadband plan.

Officials will use urban and rural community-level input to best guide investments to expand and improve Kentucky’s high-speed internet access where it is most critically needed.

While Bowling Green’s community has broadband access, Mayor Todd Alcott says this is a great opportunity to bring up what internet advances you’d like to see in the future.

“What the governor is doing is good for the state of Kentucky, but it’s not necessarily going to give any additional dollars to the city of Bowling Green because we have Internet. We have decent speeds,” said Alcott. “I believe it would be good for people to state to the governor. Could we use some of these funds to get fiber internet?”

To join the conversation tomorrow, register online here. Governor Beshear’s Better Internet Initiative Listening tour stop will take place at the Barren River Area Development District from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.