Iowa considers building new prison capacity after escapes
The draft study proposes adding 512 beds at a cost over 47 million and 400 beds at Newton for 23 million to address growing female inmate overcrowding. It urges updating Anamosa built in 1872 and preserving housing during possible construction while demolitions may occur.
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McCoys Faced Hidden Disease Across Generations
The Associated Press uncovers a long kept secret in the McCoy Hatfield family revealing Von Hippel Lindau disease affecting multiple generations. Vanderbilt doctors seek to locate more relatives to warn them as tumors threaten eyes pancreas kidneys brain and spine.
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Misconceptions linger in Hatfield McCoy feud history
The Hatfield and McCoy feud is analyzed through relatives and researchers. Dr Nuzhet Atuk and Penn geneticists studied generations over thirty years, tracing tumors and the term madness disease to 1968. The feud now remains civil, with a 2003 visitation rights lawsuit between McCoy and Hatfield descendants in eastern Kentucky.
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UI weighs ending lottery gambling ties amid NCAA prompts
Iowa officials including Barta and the Presidential Committee on Athletics debate ending the UI lottery partnership. NCAA letters discouraged promoting gambling while some members urge scrutiny of trademarks and ads. Several faculty leaders from US Faculty Council and Faculty Senate back ending the relationship.
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Labor ebb and flow of priorities shape Iowa politics
Lobbyist John Gilliland notes the ongoing political cycle as unions pursue long-standing priorities amid the 2007 session. Mike Blouin and Dennis Goldford discuss payback expectations after party wins, while labor leaders push for pro worker issues as enrollment and wages become central amid a worker shortage.
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Des Moines
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Drake University Political Science
Dennis Goldford
Labor
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Iowa Federation of Labor
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Burlington
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