Elementary. Marin county at this point in a category of its own with being in the red county surrounded by a lot of those other purple tier counties. We broke it down by numbers. 51 counties are in the purple category. Just six in the red category. One lone county is in orange. These counties in purple, according to the states covid website, represent nearly 40 Million People in the state or 99. 1 of the states population really in a league of its own. Pa rin marin stands out. In a letter to parents, the superintendent and the School Principal emphasized that families are encouraged to quarantine when needed and some of the school day will be a little different. Dropoff and pickup, drivers are to meet at a designated gate and the drivers are to remain in their cars. Some feel the district may be moving too fast. Increase depression and other maladaptive behaviors. Reporter and in this district the high school is expected to reopen school in january. It is important to note for schools
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And longtime political reporter with the gazette in cedar rapids, serving as the moderator tonight. Because of the pennant, we are without an audience know it is time to meet our two candidates for the Second District of congress. Former teacher. Covering clinton and scott counties. Senator, thank you both for joining us tonight. We appreciate it. You get to lead us off. For 60 seconds, talk about why you are the best choice for this seat in congress. Thank you so much and it is a great pleasure to be here. Farmer,ormer teacher, a and a long life rhode island or. And also took that to the state senate, working on important issues like Economic Development. I know we are not going to agree on every issue tonight, but i want to go to washington to find common ground. We are facing some tough problems right now with the pandemic, the economy, with health care, and with education. Many more. I know that the way to get to the best solution is to do it together. You. Nator, 60 seconds or i w
Across the country and serving about 35 of our landmass. Host could you name a couple of those companies to help us get familiar . Guest absolutely. We could go all the way to western south dakota by Mount Rushmore to visit golden west and we could go to citizens on the Mississippi River up in wisconsin where we got cooperatives and if you are in my state of virginia weve got scott county down in the very tip of the state serving the tristate area so ive got 850. Host when you talk about landmass you not talking landmass or population at all. Guest peter, you hit upon the key part of this. Its about 5 of the American Population but they are truly the providers in this extremely rural part of the country and everywhere from alaska down to the panhandle of florida so they stretched all across and it got everybody from someone who is got about 150 subscribers to probably my Largest Company has just about 100,000 subscribers. They are serving those areas with quite frankly the Bell Compani
Cable Television Program as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Host this week on the communicators, our guest is Shirley Bloomfield from ntca, the Rural Broadband association. She is the ceo of it. Pauluest reporter is kirby. Shirley bloomfield, who do you represent at ntca . Shirley i represent around 850 communitybased Rural Broadband providers. They are the companies that traditionally were the local phone companies that had to evolve and evolve quickly. Broadband providers. About 35 of our landmass in this country. Host could you name a couple of those companies . Shirley absolutely, we could go all the way to western south dakota by matt . , we can go to wisconsin, where we have a number of Telephone Cooperatives. And if looking over here in my state of virginia, we have scott county down in the very tip of the state, the tristate area. I have 800 and 50. 850. Host so you are talking landmass, not necessarily population. Shirley absolutely, and