The Albert Lea Tribune shares a letter from Senator Amy Klobuchar…

As Minnesota families celebrate the new year, I want to reflect on everything we achieved together in 2023 and look forward to the year ahead. Despite a divided Congress, we worked across the aisle and made progress on a range of issues impacting our state. Through my visits to all of Minnesota’s 87 counties last year, I got to see that progress firsthand. I’m going to build on that momentum in 2024. …

We can’t talk about infrastructure without also talking about broadband. Right now, 136,000 Minnesota homes and small businesses don’t have high-speed internet. That’s why I led the legislation to bring broadband to every zip code, and in 2023, Minnesota received a game-changing $650 million federal grant to make this a reality.