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Iowa Governor’s $450M Broadband Buildout Receives Support Just 18.5 percent of Iowans have access to affordable Internet and the average download speed is the second worst in the nation. But Gov. Reynolds hopes to get Iowans connected over the next three years. Michaele Niehaus, The Hawk Eye   |   February 16, 2021   |  News (TNS) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds was met Friday with support for her broadband expansion efforts when she visited with Des Moines County community and business leaders. Reynolds has proposed investing $150 million e...

The Hawk Eye Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds was met Friday with support for her broadband expansion efforts when she visited with Des Moines County community and business leaders. Reynolds has proposed investing $150 million each of the next three years to establish affordable high-speed broadband access, the need for which has been made increasingly apparent by the pandemic, throughout Iowa by 2025. Addressing a group of more than a dozen community and business leaders gathered in a conference room of the Greater Burlington Partnership, Reynolds said the $450 million in state funding combined ...

Rich Egger Some counties are releasing more information about COVID-19 vaccination schedules. And financial assistance is headed to small businesses in a couple communities. Lee County The Lee County Health Department said people age 65 and older will now be included in the state’s Phase 1B for COVID-19 vaccinations.  The phase will start next month. The county health department said it already has a list of more than 800 people who have called with contact information and are waiting for an appointment. The department said it will schedule appointments as doses of the vaccine come in. I...

Des Moines County jail inmates will be receiving more calories in their daily diet. The agency that looks over the facility's menus informed jail administrator Doug Ervine the jail was using an incorrect calorie number to put together inmate meals.  "They said we have to use 2,400 calories," Ervine said. Currently, the jail serves inmates 2,000 calories per day. Ervine said he believed this was the correct number of calories to be served and was told only recently that inmates must be given more calories. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, sedentary men between t...

Bob Saar Des Moines County supervisors Thomas Broeker, chair, Jim Cary and Shane McCampbell met Tuesday to hear the latest COVID numbers and got some good news — relative to all of 2020 — from DMC public health director Christa Poggemiller. "We're rolling out the vaccine," Poggemiller said. She said as of Sunday 1,162 DMC residents were vaccinated for a DMC total of 1,537; out-of-county health workers and others who qualify are included in the overall total even though they don't live here. "We gave more vaccines yesterday, so we anticipate that number will be higher come tomorrow," Pogge...