Fun to see friends online. Jane Leonard started a podcast (Rural-Urban MN Twin Talks) with her twin sister Karin Sonneman to have interesting chats about Minnesota. This week they had Office of Broadband Development Director Bree Maki.

Bree talks about all of the opportunities available at OBD on a practical basis and gives an update on the IIJA (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) funding requirements. (We’ll know more at the end of June.) But according to the last MN Broadband Task Force report there are 291,000 unserved homes in Minnesota and it would cost $1.4 billion to serve everyone. A guestimate for the amount Minnesota will get from IIJA is $600 million.