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Rural Virginia’s engine of economic development

Roanoke Times Editorial by Michael Keyser, CEO of BARC Electric Cooperative

Virginia’s rural communities are at an economic crossroads.

Faced with declining populations and no access to high speed internet, many of these communities are turning to their local electric cooperative to empower their future success, just as they did in the late 1930s with rural electrification.

Read the full editorial here