Funding rural broadband: A no-brainer for this legislative session
1 Mar 2019
Consider this your daily affirmation of Minnesota’s excellence: We have the best funding structure for connecting our rural areas to high quality broadband internet access. You can thank the Minnesota’s Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program housed within the Department of Employment and Economic Development for this. The overarching goal of this program is to extend high quality and affordable internet access to all Minnesotans, especially those in unserved or underserved areas. Despite the myriad partisan battles between 2014 and now, the Minnesota Legislature has allocated $90.5 million to the program, providing a booster shot to the economy of Greater Minnesota.
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Three Minnesota companies landed spots on Fortune magazine's annual ranking of the world's most-admired companies.
The list, which is compiled by Fortune with management consulting firm Korn Ferry, ranks the largest 1,000 U.S. companies (along with some big non-U.S. companies from Fortune's Global 500), and solicits impressions of each...
Not Taking the Expansion for Granted
Feb 27 2019Minnesota’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held at 2.8 percent in November 2018 for the third month in a row. The state’s unemployment rate remains the lowest since May 1999 and three tenths of a point above the all-time low of 2.5 percent (January and February, 1999).
October’s gain of...
Funding will support infrastructure improvements in Arlington, Becker and Hendricks
ST. PAUL – Grants totaling more than $2 million were approved by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) for infrastructure projects in three Greater Minnesota communities.
DEED awarded the funding from its Greater Minnesota Business Development...