Secret Settlements Detail Savings From Agency Reorg
Iowa DAS officials testified they would provide a detailed savings analysis after a reorganization that sparked an employee shake-up and privatization of project oversight. They cited $730,000 yearly savings and more than $12 million in overall construction-volume savings, while a one page note showed about $360,000.
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Des Moines
State Department of Administrative Services
DAS
Doug Woodley
DAS General Services Enterprise
Paul Carlson
Sandy Greiner
Washington
Democrats push to expand Iowa legislative probe into Branstad admin
Des Moines Democrats demand broader inquiry into Branstad era actions. They seek subpoenas, oaths, an independent counsel, and possible prosecution over hush money, juvenile home closures, do not hire databases, and Workforce Development misconduct. Branstad dismisses as partisan politics.
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House Democrats
Branstad
Ruth Ann Gaines
D-Des Moines
House
Government Oversight Committee
Gaines
Representatives
Iowa
Iowa Film Office
Iowa Association of School Boards
Central Iowa Employment and Training Consortium
CIETC
Paulsen
Senate
GOP
Bill Dix
Shell Rock
Jack Hatch
Hatch
Tom Miller
Pro-Russia police help foil crackdown in Ukraine crisis
Pro-Russia police sympathetic to separatists occupying government buildings aided thwarting a planned government crackdown in Ukraine's east. The Interior Ministry blamed disloyal officers while Turchynov warned of a police reform, as gunmen seized sites in Donetsk Luhansk Slavyansk and Horlivka amid international concern and sanctions talks.
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Interior Ministry
Oleksandr Turchynov
Donetsk
Luhansk
Slavyansk
Kramatorsk
Horlivka
UNIAN
TSN
Kiev
Turchynov
Viktor) Yanukovich
Russian Federation
Ukrainian Security Service
U.S
Vladimir Putin
Barack Obama
Putin
Russia
Obama
Jay Carney
CIA
John Brennan
United States
Brennan
Carney
United Nations
Ban Kimoon
U.N
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Security Service
European Union
Luxembourg
William Hague
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Vicki Lensing
Iowa City
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Swirt
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