Iowa energy progress shown with growing renewables
Iowa's energy use and production trend toward improvement, with TEConomy Partners noting Iowa consumes more energy than it produces and imports more than it yields. Wind expansion and a shift away from fossil fuels bolster the state's balance, as a broader energy plan draft aims for a December completion.
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Brian Selinger
Epilogue James McPherson Dies at 72 First Black Pulitzer Fiction Winner
James McPherson, first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Elbow Room in 1978, died at 72 from pneumonia complications in Iowa City. Born in Georgia, he rose from poverty, studied at Harvard Law, then pursued writing with mentors like Ralph Ellison, later teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Atlantic Monthly
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ISU reorg keeps 11 workers paid but at home
At Iowa State University 11 unionized ITS employees, initially kept in a "Gitmo Iowa State" room during a reorganization, were told on July 12 they may stay home on paid nonworking status. They remain employed while reassignment and bumping procedures unfold under a 90 day notice policy.
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