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On Tuesday, January 21 Governor Tim Walz announced the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) is awarding $23,270,933 in Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program funds to 30 broadband projects across the state. The projects will bring high-quality broadband access to underserved and unserved areas of Minnesota, providing fast, reliable internet access for more […]
By Warren Strandell – Polk County Commissioner, Dist. 2 Hot topics for the County Board in the year ahead are issues like these. Replacement of the elevator in the Government Center: This will involve how access to services located on the upper floor of the building will be made available during several months of the
Polk County was preparing for a couple of large projects for much of 2019, and those projects will start to progress more rapidly now that the calendar has flipped to 2020. In December, the Polk County Commissioners approved the final 2020 budget, which included an estimated $3 million in capital improvement bonds. The bonds will
Farmers have a problem in Minnesota — soybean aphids are becoming resistant to insecticides incredibly fast. With only three families of insecticides available to treat aphids, losing just one is a big deal. Due to the rise in insecticide-resistant aphids, the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council (MSR&PC) and the University of Minnesota are working
The Polk County Highway Department would like to remind residents to remove signs from the roadways. There are still a lot of the “Slippery Mud on Road” signs out there and with winter weather on the way they may be hit by snow plows.
The Minnesota Tax Court makes changes to its previous valuation order for the Enbridge pipeline corridor originally ordered in May 2018 for the years 2012-14. For example, in May 2018, the Tax Court valued Enbridge’s corridor at $3.42 billion for 2014, on November 5 they revised the valuation with prodding from the Minnesota Supreme Court,
