Branstad seals budget as 2011 session ends
Gov. Terry Branstad finalized a $5.999 billion fiscal year budget and signed two laws on state justice agencies and the judiciary ending the 2011 legislative session. Spokesman Tim Albrecht said reforms to create jobs and education would be priorities next year while commercial property taxes and broad educational reform remain key issues.
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State education spending falls since late 1990s report says
The Iowa Policy Project finds overall education spending down in real and inflation-adjusted dollars since the late 1990s. K-12 funding in 2012 reached a record high of 2.77 billion, while public colleges and universities sit at about 539 million, well below 1999 2000 levels.
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Man Fatally Electrocuted Reconnecting Home Power Line
Jamie John Pettebaum 38 died Friday while using an aluminum pole to reach a top disconnect after electricity was cut to his Delaware County home on April 21. The incident followed a power outage connected to his service. The second report notes a Texas man hospitalized after a small plane crash near Salem Iowa, Gary Kirby of McKinney, treated for non life threatening injuries after engine trouble near Mount Pleasant while attempting a landing at the Mount Pleasant airport.
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Corps to cut Missouri River releases as flood lingers
The Army Corps of Engineers plans to reduce dam releases in August to ease flood risk and begin restoring banks, but flooding may persist into fall in Iowa Nebraska and Missouri. Officials say relief arrives upriver first with September or October relief for Nebraska Iowa and Missouri.
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