GOP proposal delays tax cuts until budget balance
Washington AP reports Republicans consider balancing the budget first before enacting tax relief for middle class. House leaders split over delay with DeLay pushing spending fights, Armey and Archer pledging tax cuts this year if spending is trimmed. Gingrich studies options as the Blue Dogs favor a balanced budget without tax cuts.
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Jamieson reacts emotionally as DNA ties him to murder
Jamieson cried when told his DNA matched semen from Cathy Jo Bohlken, then 19, in the 1993 Monticello murder. He offered to take another test and asked to speak to his father as the trial proceeded in Linn County.
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Dick Hogan Gazette
Travis Jamieson
Cathy Jo Bohlken
Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
Mike Morris
Linn County
Jones County
Bohlken
Mike Cox
Monticello
Cox
Dean Cox
Iowa lawmakers skeptical of interstate toll plan
Iowans show little support for President Clinton’s highway funding idea using tolls on interstates. Senators say Iowa’s many secondary roads make tolls impractical and drivers would seek alternate routes. The proposal aims to fund new highways, bridges, and transit, but faces uncertain fate in Congress.
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Gazette
Des Moines
Drake
Iowa
Clinton
Senate
Bill Fay
American Highway Users Alliance
Charles Larson
Cedar Rapids
Larson
House Economic Development Committee
Tom Aller
Iowa Department of Transportation Commission
DOT
Harkin backs cloning as humanity advances
Senator Tom Harkin argues government should not block human cloning citing untold benefits to humankind. He praised Ian Wilmut, Dolly the sheep developer, while urging ethical limits and warning against halting scientific progress. Senator Grassley calls for a legislative block until full debate.
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Gazette
Washington
Sen
Tom Harkin
Harkin
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Dolly the Sheep
Wilmut
Senate Labor Committee
Hitler
Clinton
Dolly
Charles Grassley
Iowa
Congress
Associated Press
Levi's 1886 1902 jeans fetch 25000 for museum display
Levi Strauss & Co buys a century old pair of jeans for 25000, likely among the oldest. Found in an old Colorado mine, the jeans date 1886 to 1902 and will join the Levi Strauss museum in San Francisco for an exhibit alongside a near equal vintage pair.
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Levi N Strauss & Co
Levi’s
Colorado
Levi Strauss Museum
San Francisco
Lynn Downey
Company
New York Times
Downey
Manhattan
Japan
Seth Weisser
Iowa Hopes Rally as Barker Career Noted at Iowa
University of Iowa basketball official scorer Gil Barker, longtime figure with 29 years at Iowa, is highlighted amid a jumble of brief notes. Other items report Solon girls defeating Denver 45 34 Prairie topping Sibley Ocheyedan 59 55 and a Marion woman charged with stealing over 1000 intended for playground improvements.
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University of Iowa
Solon
Denver
Mid- Prairie
Sibley-Ocheyedan
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