Budget pressure in Iowa Legislature during narrow session
Senate Appropriations and the Medicaid working group weigh smaller cuts and shifting funds from tobacco and senior living accounts to erase the Medicaid imbalance by June. House leaders warn of revenue shifts and delays in budget decisions as education funding and allowable growth face scrutiny amid a shortened 90 day session.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Christopher Rants
Sioux City
Tom Vilsack
GOP
Brent Siegrist
Council Bluffs
Dick Myers
Iowa City
Myers
Rants
Bush welfare plan to push marriage goal in 1996 budget
The plan, to be described February 4, proposes at least 100 million dollars yearly for pilots to encourage marriage among low income parents. It would require states to address marriage in welfare programs and ends 100 million in annual bonuses for cutting births to unwed parents, a reform critics say misdirects incentives.
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Bush
Congress
Thompson
Security detail set for Utah Olympic Games
Knight departs Feb 8 for two weeks to cover public safety at 140 sites during the Winter Games. The event opens Feb 8 with heavy security involving Secret Service FBI and FEMA and over 5,000 officers. Scott Werling from Anamosa will handle communications as a Cedar Rapids dispatch recruit.
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Utah
Scott Werling
Werling
Anamosa
Iowa State Patrol
Cedar Rapids
Iowans volunteer as Winter Olympics helpers from Iowa
Iowa City drivers Jane Guinetti and Carl Nelson will shuttle spectators to venues in Salt Lake City. Cedar Rapids therapist Chris Sparks will volunteer in the Olympic Village and other sites, among 50 outside communications officers. Tama sheriff’s dispatcher Jennifer Meyer and Le Mars captain Dennis Folkema join as volunteers.
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Iowa City
Jane Guinetti
Carl Nelson
Guinetti
Nelson
Cedar Rapids
Chris Sparks
Mercy Fitness Center
Olympic Village
Sparks
Pentagon
Davenport
Ragbrai
Atlanta
Salt Lake City
Jennifer Meyer
Tama
Meyer
Tama County Sheriff's Department
Dennis Folkema
le Mars
Sanitation firm wins major contract for event services
Action Services will join four other firms in a $3 million contract to provide sanitation at events in Salt Lake City. Workers depart Cedar Rapids February 5 and return February 26 with strict security and inventory checks. Kaams Kramer notes the project is a precedent setting, possibly the largest contract for the firm. Frank Gluck reported.
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Portable Sanitation Association International
Action Services
Carroll
Los Angeles
Boise
Idaho
Cascade, Wash
Cedar Rapids
Kramer
Salt Lake City
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Frankg
Fyiowa
Hanes Sal
Bill Credit
Motorola
Verizonwireless.com
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N.E
Lindale Mall
the Gap
Cedar Rapids Precision Wireless
Lindale & Westdale
Technology Hut
16Th Ave
Lucent Technologies
Westdale Mall
Bishops Entrance
Coralville
Coral Ridge Mall
Dillards
Dubuque Kennedy Mall
Bishops
Dubuque Central Cellular
Central Ave
Cedar Cross Rd
Intouch Cellular
Asbury
Precision Wireless
Coral Ridge
Old Capital Mall
CT Communications Sycamore Mall
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Napa Auto Parts
University Ave
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