{"id":523307,"date":"2010-04-11T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2010-04-11T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T20:44:34","slug":"stimulus-wait-continues-in-sw-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523307","title":{"rendered":"Stimulus wait continues in SW Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/hourglass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3283\" title=\"hourglass\" src=\"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/hourglass.jpg?w=112&#038;h=170\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>The Southwest Minnesota Broadband Group found out that they received <a href=\"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/2010\/02\/19\/southwest-minnesota-broadband-group-gets-arra-funds\/\">ARRA funding in February<\/a>, but they\u2019re still waiting for the check to arrive. At least that what it sounds like from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksoncountypilot.com\/Stories\/Story.cfm?SID=26009\">Jackson County Pilot<\/a> (April 1, 2010 \u2013 Fiber: Coming to a Farm Near You; not currently online but kindly sent to me by John Shepard) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windomnews.com\/main.asp?SectionID=30&amp;SubSectionID=134&amp;ArticleID=21743&amp;TM=52122.85\">Cottonwood County Citizen Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cottonwood County Citizen Online reports that according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windomnet.com\/\">Windomnet<\/a> Manager Dan Olsen parts of the project are in a holding pattern but some parts progress; specifically they have finalized the joint powers agreement and started some preliminary engineering.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s kind of a bummer for the communities that are waiting. I suppose Minnesota hadn\u2019t had such a beautiful March they might be in a holding pattern waiting for the ground to thaw. Hopefully the check will arrive soon. Waiting seems to be a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/2009\/10\/16\/are-stimulus-funds-slowing-us-down-again\/\">recurring theme<\/a> with the entire ARRA broadband funding initiative.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3282\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3282\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3282\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3282\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3282\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3282\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3282\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3282\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3282\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3282\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blandinonbroadband.org&#038;blog=785113&#038;post=3282&#038;subd=blandinonbroadband&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southwest Minnesota Broadband Group found out that they received ARRA funding in February, but they\u2019re still waiting for the check to arrive. At least that what it sounds like from the Jackson County Pilot (April 1, 2010 \u2013 Fiber: Coming to a Farm Near You; not currently online but kindly sent to me by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}