Thirty-nine projects across Minnesota to expand high-speed Internet access are getting 26 million dollars from the state.  But the dollar amount is less than half what Governor Mark Dayton requested from the Republican-controlled legislature. Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith says it’s not enough

 

 

Republican leaders say private industry efforts to expand broadband access are more effective than large state subsidies.  Democrats respond the only way remote areas of Minnesota will get high-speed Internet is if the state steps in.