Iowa Legislature faces final rush to finish budget and policy
With three weeks left, the Iowa Legislature races to agree on a fiscal 2006 budget, re create the Iowa Values Fund, education expansion, health care funding, possible cigarette tax hike, and new penalties for sex offenders. Gov. Vilsack nominees await confirmation as leaders warn time pressure grows ahead of adjournment on April 29.
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Gazette Des Moines
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Iowa Values Fund
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Tom Bedell
Teresa Walhert
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Wayne Sawtelle
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Senate
Jeff Angelo
R-Creston
Senate Appropriations Committee
Stewart Iverson
Dows
Mike Gronstal
Council Bluffs
Jesseta Gage
State to set open records copy fee rules in Iowa
Iowa officials plan guidance on copy costs for public documents with a Sunshine Advisory due within three months. The Senate committee advanced Senate File 403 to clarify that overhead costs should not be charged and to allow non in person requests, amid ongoing debates on open meetings and records.
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Pottorff
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Dyersville
Evers
Greenfield Town Featured on LIFE Magazine Cover
Greenfield Iowa and its residents are showcased in a LIFE magazine issue on small-town America. Freelance photographer William Lamson photographed over 400 people in the town square and featured local cross country runners Gentri Rice and Nathan Kuhns alongside Orient residents.
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Greenfield
Iowa
Life Magazine
America
Field
William Lamson
Midwest
Kendalyn Huff
Adair County
YMCA
Lamson
Huff
Ginny Kuhfus
Greenfield Chamber of Commerce
LIFE
Nathan and
Kiki Kuhns
Orient
Ethics row shadows Raecker who heads Iowa House panel
Iowa observers allege Rep. Scott Raecker of Urbandale steered a non profit toward a casino grant while directing the Character Counts program and supervising a gambling expansion bill. The Prairie Meadows board gave 625000 to Character Counts, run by Raecker’s Institute for Character Development, with Raecker earning 75000 yearly. No ethics charges filed. Public notes mention local tax lift and ISU student petition on term lengths. Separate grants and loans listed for several towns.
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Scott Raecker
Urbandale
House
Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino Board
Tom Vilsack
Iowa
Institute For Character Development
Raecker
Institute
Altoona Casino
Character Counts
Residents vote to keep 4 year council terms
Ames residents backed four year City Council terms and approved a motel tax increase. Unofficial returns show 58 percent of 3,938 voters favored maintaining the longer terms rather than reducing them to two years.
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Iowa State University
ISU
Ames
Seven Rural Communities to Receive Facility Funding
Senator Grassley announces seven rural communities will receive Community Facility Loan and Grant funding to assist in developing essential public facilities in poor rural areas and towns. The program supports building and expanding local services.
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Washington
Chuck Grassley
Operating While Intoxicated Charges in Iowa City
The Log reports OWI charges in Iowa City against Gustavo Diaz 35 of 2401 Highway 6 E No 2809 and Brianna Walsh Bostwick 18 of 2125 Western Rd with incidents near Fairmeadows Boulevard and Lower Muscatine Road.
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Highway
Iowa City
Fairmeadows Boulevard
Highway 6
Brianna Walsh-Bostwick
Western
Lower Muscatine Road
Mall Drive
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