Mayor Sly James's vision of building "Silicon Prairie" took a quantum leap forward when he successfully lobbied Google to partner with Kansas City in an exclusive test of its ultrahigh-speed fiber network, giving residents access to Internet service 100 times faster than average broadband speeds across the country. As a result, new businesses and entrepreneurs are already starting to come to this Midwestern tech mecca.
Whether technology, as Newsweek later asserts, is directly responsible for a "resurgence in the downtown population" is a debate for another post, but a Kansas City mayor making national headlines for the work he's doing in his office is a nice change of pace.
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