Iowa Senate faces shutdown talk as Republicans defend record
Democrats charge the GOP-led Iowa Legislature is spinning its wheels amid job-creation debates and a possible temporary adjournment. Senate leaders defend actions including college bonding, tax relief, and unemployment fund work as lawmakers weigh revenue projections and future energy and tax measures.
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Des Moines
Iowa Senate
George Kinley
Senate
Kinley
Iowa
General Assembly
Cal Hultman
R-Red Oak
Golf carts on streets now up to governor
The Iowa House rejected reviving a golf cart bill and sent it to Gov. Ray. The measure would let cities enact ordinances allowing carts on city streets with licensed operators and safety gear. Also, recycling fees and a one time homestead tax credit filing were approved by committees.
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Iowa
Emil Husak
Toledo
General Assembly
Husak
Hultman
Lowa
OPEC
Federal Reserve
Gazette
Des Moines
Iowa House
House
Senate
Robert Ray
House Energy Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Snowmobile crash kills Monticello art teacher
John W. Kortemeyer Jr. 44 of Scotch Grove died after a snowmobile struck a cable across a private Monticello driveway near Farmstead Builders. Police say he split from three companions and rode behind the building, hitting the cable and suffering fatal head and neck injuries.
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Monticello
John W. Kortemeyer Jr
Scotch Grove
John McDonald Hospital
Farmstead Builders
Richard Castro
Castro
Kortemeyer
Kortmeyer
Oelwein Man Killed in Marshall County Crash
James Richard Weatherbee 34 of Des Moines Iowa Department of Labor employee died in a two vehicle collision on Highway 330 two miles south of its intersection with Highway 30 near Marshalltown. Teresa Fowler of Melbourne drove north and skidded into Weatherbee’s lane on an icy hill. Weatherbee pulled toward the ditch as the other car crossed the center line but died on the shoulder. Fowler was treated and released. no charges filed. Investigation ongoing.
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Marshalltown
Oelwein
Marshall County
Teresa Fowler
Melbourne
Body in Mississippi is Illinois man
The Mississippi River near Muscatine yielded the body of 23 year old Mark Duncan of Kewanee Indiana. The coroner said he drowned after being found encased in ice and recovered by ice cutting tools. Duncan had not been seen since November 11, 1981.
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Mississippi
Illinois
Muscatine
Mississippi River
Muscatine Sunday
Mark Duncan
Kewanee
Rock Island County, IN
Duncan
Eugene Sullivan
Rock Island
Iowa Senate stalls IPERS benefits bill over appropriation rule
The Iowa Senate delayed a measure to raise IPERS benefits amid a rule requiring the Appropriations Committee to approve any bill with an appropriation. The plan would lift benefits from 47 to 49 percent of wages and raise the wage cap, but faces an $8 million cost to cities, schools, and the state.
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Senate
Lowell Jenkins
D-Montrose
Ken Sullivan
Des Moines
Iowa Senate
Appropriations Committee
Iowa Public Employees
Appropriations
John Murray
R-Ames
Murray
Jack Nystrom
Boone
Ipers Trust Fund
Nystrom
Edgar Holden
R-Davenport
Holden
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