Iowa weighs limits on professional regulation
The Commission on Professional and Occupational Regulation reviews 29 regulated fields including realtors detectives and watchmakers. It aims to balance public health and welfare with industry interests, suggesting ending regulation for landscape architects and watchmakers while noting finances and staffing affect timing and scope of any broader licensing changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy Daubenmier
Gazette
Des Moines
Iowa
Commission On Professional and Occupational Regulation
Commission
Frederick Morain
Jefferson
Morain
John Deere’s
Lowans Won’t Get Radiation Pills Shelved by Iowa Health Dept
Iowa Health Department shelved plans to distribute potassium iodide pills to residents within 10 miles of nuclear reactors. Officials cited evacuation ease, high cost, limited protection, and uncertain release of iodine 131 as factors. Pills would only aid thyroid protection and not other radiological risks.
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Des Moines
Iowa Department of Health
John Eyre
Palo
Cedar Rapids
EURE
Health Department
Jack Crandall
Iowa
Office of Disaster Services
Crandall
Federal Emergency Management Administration
Jarrell Jacobson
FDA
Jacobson
Lowa
IDOT to remove tolls on Clinton Mississippi bridges
The Iowa Transportation Commission voted to end tolls on the two Clinton Mississippi River bridges on December 17 after tolls accumulated enough to cover bonds and repairs. Bridge funds showed 2,936,000 dollars in cash as of September 1, with about 57,000 dollars remaining after obligations. Any surplus will be split roughly 50 50 with Illinois.
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Ames
Mississippi River
Clinton
Iowa Transportation Commission
Jon McCoy
Iowa Department of Transportation
Commission
Illinois
McCoy
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California
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