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Child care, broadband expansion among top priorities of Governor’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board BY MICHAEL CRUMB, Senior Staff Writer Monday, February 8, 2021 2:15 PM Solving the state’s child care crisis was the unanimous No. 1 priority listed in recommendations released in a report last week by the Governor’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. The advisory board was created last summer to address issues facing the state in its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The task force first met in late June and was given 100 days to pull together recommendations that Gov...

After months of study, governor's economic advisory council lays out plan for COVID-19 recovery Tyler Jett, Des Moines Register Gov. Reynolds announces recommendations from economic recovery advisory board Replay Video UP NEXT A panel of leading Iowa executives backed Gov. Kim Reynolds' legislative priorities in a a 126-page report released Thursday, including increasing state funding for broadband internet, child care and housing. The Governor's Economic Recovery Advisory Board was made up of 12 leaders of Iowa companies, the state economist, a chamber of commerce official ...

Read Gov. Kim Reynolds 2021 Condition of the State speech Des Moines Register staff, Des Moines Register Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Lieutenant Governor, legislative leaders and members, justices and judges, my fellow Iowans: Our state constitution says that, every year, the governor must communicate to the general assembly the condition of the state. That usually happens in the morning on the second day of the legislative session, but tonight I’m breaking with that tradition so that I may speak directly to Iowans. © Bryon Houlgrave/The Register Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds del...

"Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Lieutenant Governor, legislative leaders and members, justices and judges, my fellow Iowans: Our state constitution says that, every year, the governor must communicate to the general assembly the condition of the state. That usually happens in the morning on the second day of the legislative session, but tonight I’m breaking with that tradition so that I may speak directly to Iowans. It’s been a year—and I’ll let you fill in whatever adjective you want. Covid-19. Civil Unrest. A drought. A derecho. We’ve been beaten and battered in about every way imagi...