Census fieldworkers fan out in Iowa City this week
Census Bureau staff will visit off campus housing in Iowa City to count students as part of the non response follow up. In southeast Iowa 600 fieldworkers will begin head counts across 13 counties after a 72.2 percent return rate district wide. Nationally 61 percent of forms returned.
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U.S. Census Bureau
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Tom Moss
Moss
Census Bureau
Former Iowa legislator sentenced to four months in disability case
Albert Garrison 62 of Des Moines former Iowa legislator was sentenced to three years in prison with all but four months suspended and five years probation. He concealed 1986 87 work while applying for disability benefits leading to an estimated 80000 in benefits paid to him since 1979. The judge recommended placement at a federal medical facility in Rochester Minnesota for health reasons.
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Iowa
Albert Garrison
Des Moines
Waterloo
U.S
David Hansen
Garrison
Rochester
Minn
Social Security Administration
Hansen
Robert Teig
Internal Revenue Service
Iowa Department of Transportation
Iowa Department of Social Services
Brazil man pleads guilty in Cedar Rapids drug case
Wagner Rodrigues of Sao Paulo Brazil admitted guilt in U S District Court Cedar Rapids to transporting funds to violate drug laws and conspiracy to import and distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine He faces 5 to 40 years and an Aug 6 sentencing date He was arrested May 3 1989 with Thomas Romsey of Stratford Iowa in a case involving cocaine concealed in record albums mailed from Brazil to Romsey's farm
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Wagner Rodrigues
Sao Paulo
Brazil
U.S
Cedar Rapids
Rodrigues
Thomas Romsey
Stratford
Iowa
U.S. Postal Service
U.S. Customs
Romsey
Iowa health blueprint urges consumer driven reform over decade
The Health Policy Corporation of Iowa released a ten year plan to raise health care value access and quality. It calls for proactive consumers and purchasers, market oriented changes, incentives for efficiency and accountability across providers plans and government. The report targets expanded roles for consumers employers and health plans while noting 220000 Iowans lack insurance and many remain underinsured.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Health Policy Corporation of
HPCI
Paul Pietzsch
Pietzsch
Arab American Institute head accuses Harkin of pro Israel influence
James Zogby charged that U S Senator Tom Harkin's Middle East votes were shaped by pro Israel PAC money. He challenged Harkin in the Iowa Senate race against Tom Tauke and urged broader debate on Arab rights and Middle East justice.
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U.S
Tom Harkin
Middle East
James Zogby
Arab American Institute
Iowa
Harkin
Tom Tauke
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