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bshea@messengernews.net Iowa lawmakers representing Webster County agree with Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposals for improving child care, broadband service and mental health treatment. Reacting to the governor’s Condition of the State Address, the legislators said Wednesday that they expect to get to work quickly on many of those proposals. The governor’s call to give parents an option to send their children to in-person classes for all their schooling is also likely to get attention soon, but will have little effect on schools in the Fort Dodge area, according to state Rep. Ann Meyer, R-For...

Iowa senators and representatives will meet Monday for the start of the 2021 legislative session.  For Story and Boone counties' representatives, education, broadband, natural resources and the continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic are at the top of their lists.  "COVID has changed the way that we do business, how we educate our children, how we receive health care, and it has exposed some of our vulnerabilities,” Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, said last week. "So, I think this is a year for us to learn from what we've experienced over the last year." After November's electi...