Bay Area elected leaders hoping to preserve what’s perceived as a vital service in isolated mountain and coastal regions have spoken out in support of a proposed California Public Utilities Commission decision affecting AT&T’s moves to scrap traditional landlines.

San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller and U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA-16) each issued statements in favor of the proposed decision issued Friday by PUC Administrative Law Judge Thomas J. Glegola rejecting AT&T’s proposal to withdraw as a carrier of last resort.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.