Union seeks more security at Iowa Veterans Home after firebombing
AFSCME Local 2984 filed a grievance with the Iowa Department of Personnel urging increased security at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown after a weekend firebombing of a cottage used by a black doctor. Don McKee cites staff safety concerns and calls for at least six more security staff, warning potential work abstention if conditions do not improve.
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Iowa Veterans Home
Marshalltown
Christina Martin
Terry Branstad
State Department of Personnel
American Federation of State
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Iowa
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Ethics panel to meet Branstad over lobbying ties
Iowa ethics investigators schedule an August 3 session with Gov. Terry Branstad and aides as they probe former chief of staff Doug Gross for potential improper lobbying on the Clarinda prison project. Senator Grassley urges a four year break from state business by Grassley’s contacts to curb perception of Branstad’s political damage.
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Terry Branstad
Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board
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Doug Gross
Clarinda
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U.S
Charles Grassley
Iowa
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Bonnie Campbell
Peick Attacks Dole Health Plan On Senior Welfare
Former Iowa legislator Doris Peick denounces Bob Dole's health care reform proposal as worse than current policy. Speaking at UAW Local 1024 Hall for the Iowa State Council of Senior Citizens, she cites no drug coverage, no long term care, and higher premiums for older people. Peick warns the plan would deny universal coverage and predicts a failed bid for the 1996 GOP nomination unless senior protections are added.
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Bob Dole
Kansas
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Cedar Rapids
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Dole
Leach accused of stirring Whitewater issue in Cedar Rapids
Democratic candidate Glen Winehauf and Iowa party leader Eric Tabor protested outside Jim Leach’s Cedar Rapids office arguing the Whitewater hearings are a partisan tactic. They urged Leach to address health care welfare reform crime and jobs instead of political maneuvering and claimed the hearings weaken the presidency.
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Clinton
Arkansas Savings and Loan
Glen Winehauf
Jim Leach
Iowa
Eric Tabor
Leach
Winehauf
North Liberty
U.S
Tabor
Cedar Rapids
Whitewater
Arnold vows unfinished mansion will stand amid split marriage
Roseanne and Tom Arnold’s divorce halts work on a 2000 acre Eldon Iowa estate mansion intended as Iowa’s largest. The foundation and framing are complete but the roof siding and workers are missing. Construction stopped in June with about 1.5 million spent on materials.
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