Rural Iowa needs better broadband access, but that alone won t lead to a revival Robert G. Riley Jr., Iowa View contributor
Kim Reynolds continues commitment to investing in rural communities
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Which comes first, the chicken or the broadband?
Nowadays, people determine where they want to live, and then go look for a job there. Iowa, especially, has made its rural landscape almost unlivable for outsiders economically, culturally, environmentally, politically, racially, socially. We need a much broader view than just broadband to re-populate rural Iowa with productive residents. Our governor wants to spend $450 million over three years to bring broadband to all Iowans. I applaud this initiative, as one key ingredient to economic revitalization, but it’s not the whole loaf.