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Lt. Governor Coleman visits Western Ky.
Lt. Governor Coleman visits Western Ky. By Samantha Johnson | April 12, 2021 at 5:51 PM CDT - Updated April 12 at 6:10 PM
HENDERSON, Ky. (WFIE) - Kentucky Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman visited Western Kentucky Monday, touring vaccine clinics and helping to spread Governor Andy Beshear’s goal for the Commonwealth.
She toured the small, one-room vaccine clinic at T & T and thanked Kentuckians for getting vaccinated.
The Lieutenant Governor told us her main mission was to look healthcare workers in the eyes and thank them for their hard work during the pandemic.
Lieutenant Governor Coleman said it’s small pharmacies like T & T that make the Commonwealth’s vaccination efforts so successful.
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Show Transcript Good evening, Team Kentucky. This is Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman, and I am here with some good news items today and some information to share with all of you. Uh, related Thio a few initiatives. First, I m gonna start with the Kentucky Broadband Initiative. Reminder that we need every single Kentucky in to go thio speed test dot k y dot gov. In order to take the speed test, which will give us data, we need to build a map across Kentucky of the high end low points of Internet connectivity. That map then will provide guidance for our public and private partners to be able to help us spring broadband to the last mile on connect every Kentucky household that we possibly can to affordable, reliable Internet. And so