The Alexandria Echo Press reports on Senator Westrom’s comments at Farm Fest…

“This session, we passed a significant rural broadband bill. Broadband is a real equalizer, and we have less than 8% of the state to connect to reliable internet. We can get that job done and bring a lot of economic development opportunities to rural Minnesota.”

“In many cases, broadband has been part of the rural renaissance of people moving back to small communities because they can work from home, they can visit their doctor from their home. If they have high-speed internet, they can do jobs that they couldn’t do 10 and 20 years ago.”