{"id":1118168,"date":"2022-04-19T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1118168"},"modified":"2022-04-19T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:19:32","slug":"senator-cornyn-in-tyler-for-discussion-on-unspent-covid-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1118168","title":{"rendered":"Senator Cornyn in Tyler for discussion on unspent COVID funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1118169\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/johncornyn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201cSenator John Cornyn participates in a roundtable discussion in Tyler today wto hear from regional leaders, health care providers, educators, and economic development officials at the CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital. The roundtable highlights the challenges of limited broadband access that many East Texas communities experience and how Sen. Cornyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current legislation would allow local leaders to use unspent COVID-19 relief funds for regional projects like expanding broadband and infrastructure. Roundtable participants are sharing how broadband access impacts education, health care, and economic development and emphasizes the importance of bridging the digital divide. The meeting is set for 10:00 with a press conference to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201cSenator John Cornyn participates in a roundtable discussion in Tyler today wto hear from regional leaders, health care providers, educators, and economic development officials at the CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital. The roundtable highlights the challenges of limited broadband access that many East Texas communities experience and how Sen. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1118168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senator Cornyn in Tyler for discussion on unspent COVID funds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1118171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/johncornyn-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senator Cornyn in Tyler for discussion on unspent COVID funds","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 03:48:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/johncornyn-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senator Cornyn in Tyler for discussion on unspent COVID funds","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118184,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118168\/revisions\/1118184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}