Regent Rastetter faces ethics complaint over disclosure and role
Iowa groups Foods Water Watch and Iowa CCI allege Regent Rastetter abused his position by amplifying corporate influence on land grant universities. They claim falsified financial disclosure and unreported AgriSol investments while noting his regent leadership followed large gifts to Branstad and ISU. Rastetter defends motive and says he may revise disclosures.
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Rastetter
Food and Water Watch
Iowa Citizens For Community Improvement
Iowa
CCI
Terry Branstad
Branstad
ISU
College of Agriculture
Kevin Kimle
AgriSol
Tanzania
Iowa State
Iowa Farmers Fight Costs as Drought Pushes Up Meat Prices
Iowa producers face rising feed, hay, and energy costs amid a prolonged drought. Hog and cattle operations report higher input prices, with steak up about two dollars per pound and milk margins squeezed. Some growers consider continuing despite losses while others brace for tighter beef and dairy supply. Local farmers discuss impacts on hog production, corn and soybeans, pasture drought, and rising hay prices as they seek to weather the crisis.
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Heiserman
Havens
Doug Havel
Bud’s Custom Meats
Riverside
Havel
Rob Wonderlich
Ollie
Keokuk County
Wonderlich
Whooping cough vaccine questioned amid outbreak concerns
The 1990s switch to a safer but possibly less effective pertussis vaccine prompted expert warnings as cases rise. CDC officials and researchers note evolving bacteria and vaccination gaps, with exemptions contributing in some states. Washington shows high child vaccine exemptions, yet CDC says exemptions are not the outbreak’s main driver.
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Anne Schuchat
CDC
California
Washington State
United States
Pejman Rohani
University of Michigan
Peregrine CEO Wasendorf charged in Cedar Rapids case
Peregrine chief executive officer Russell Wasendorf Sr, 64, was charged in federal court in Cedar Rapids on July 13 with making false statements. A bail hearing was reset to July 27 as Peregrine filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on July 10. The case links to a $700,000 National Futures Association fine for supervising four introducing broker firms and alleges AML deficiencies.
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Wasendorf
Cedar Rapids
Peregrine
CFTC
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
National Futures Association
The
Futures Association
Clash Financial
Lawrenceville, Ga
Oxford Trading Group
Delray Beach, Fla
California Capital Trading Group
Whittier
Calif
Patriot Financial Markets
Garden Grove
Russell Wasendorf Jr
Susan O’meara
Nolan Schiff
Managed Foreign Exchange
NFA
Michael LaSalvia
Naperville
Wasendorf Sr
O’meara
Brenda Cuypers
LaSalvia
Peregrine and
New Zealand
FBI
Cedar Falls
Ira Bodenstein
Minburn power restoration after pole crash outage
In Minburn 360 residents faced heat without electricity when a truck hit a power pole Wednesday. Power was largely restored by nightfall for all but a handful, as residents without generators endured heat, cooling, and food losses. Des Moines metro area town lies 22 miles northwest of Des Moines. Urban day care death under investigation in Urbandale. autopsy shows no trauma and no criminal charges expected.
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Minburn
Des Moines
Urbandale
Emma Bright
Associated Press
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Yrlan
Nedia
Liz Martin
the Gazette
Grady McEnany
Walker
Qwa
Far Bureau
Ross Havenstown Cattlemen's Association
Smgs
Peregrine/‘Regulators
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