A massive leap forward for Muse.

Muse is one of the best places in Florida to call home. Hard-working families, generations of neighbors, and the kind of quiet land you don’t leave once you’ve found it. But for too long, the infrastructure that the rest of the state takes for granted has stopped just short of our town.

A new communications tower at the Muse Community Center in Glades County is the fix. Not a workaround. Not a hotspot. A permanent, reliable signal that opens up what’s possible for every household in Muse, all at once.

When 911 won’t go through

A hurricane just ripped through Muse. Your child is hurt. You grab your phone to call 911 and there’s no signal. No ambulance coming. No way to reach anyone. Just you and an injured child in the dark.

In parts of Muse, that’s not a hypothetical. It’s what happens when the next storm hits a coverage gap that never should have existed in the first place.

A tower at the Muse Community Center permanently closes that gap. Reliable 911. Working cell service during and after the storm. A way to reach family, neighbors, dispatchers, and help when the power is out, the roads are flooded, and every minute counts.

The next hurricane isn’t a matter of if. It’s when. Coverage shouldn’t decide whether your family’s call for help gets answered.

A working radio for every first responder

When a brush fire breaks out in Muse, every second counts. So does every signal. Our firefighters need reliable communication to coordinate crews, call in air support, and protect homes before a line jumps the road.

Right now, patchy coverage means a crew chief can lose contact with the truck behind him. Mutual aid partners can’t hit a repeater. A 911 dispatcher can’t reach the family whose barn just caught a spark from the burn they didn’t realize was still hot.

A tower at the Muse Community Center keeps the lines open when the smoke is thickest. For fire, EMS, law enforcement, and the everyday calls for help that can’t wait for better weather. These crews show up. They don’t get to decide whether their radios work. We do.

A fair shot for every child in Muse

A child in Muse deserves the same access to homework help, virtual tutoring, and college prep as a child anywhere else in Florida. Right now, unreliable connectivity means too many families are falling behind through no fault of their own.

The difference between struggling and succeeding often comes down to one thing: access. Reliable internet connects students to online classes and tutors. It connects adults to job training, online degrees, and remote work that used to require leaving Glades County. It connects grandparents to telehealth visits and video calls with the grandkids.

A Muse child shouldn’t start school three steps behind because of where they live. One tower fixes that.

A real career, without leaving home

Two people from Muse. Same schools. Same teachers. Same parents working hard to give them a shot.

One had fast, reliable internet at home. The other didn’t.

One finished assignments when school moved online, hit virtual tutoring when the math got hard, sent college applications from the kitchen table, and landed a remote job that pays a living wage. The other fell behind. Missed deadlines. Missed video interviews. Couldn’t upskill. Couldn’t work from home. Couldn’t compete in a job market where every employer assumes you’re already online.

That gap wasn’t about effort. It was about access. Today’s economy runs on broadband. A Muse resident with a reliable connection competes with anyone in Florida. Without one, the competition ends before it starts.

One tower. One location. One permanent fix.

This isn’t four problems. It’s one problem with four faces: emergency response, first responders, students, and working families. And it has one solution.

A new communications tower at the Muse Community Center in Glades County. Reliable 911 when the storm hits. Working radios for the crews on the line. High-speed internet for every kitchen table, every classroom, every home office in Muse.

The carriers and regulators need to hear from the community. The more neighbors on record, the harder this is to ignore. Sign the petition below and pass this page along (streamlineisp.com/muse) to anyone in Muse who’s been waiting for service that actually works.