Job training centers approved by lawmakers head to Branstad
The Iowa Senate approved a bill 48 to 1 to create job training centers on community college campuses or worksites. New programs would be funded by certificates or bonds with tax incremental financing or a 1.5 percent employer tax credit. The plan includes local resolution pledges as backup funding and awaits Gov. Branstad's signature.
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Ken Sullivan
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Senate
Terry Branstad
William Palmer
D-Des Moines
Community College
Palmer
James Gallagher
D-Jesup
Senate
Douglas Ritsema
R-Oranege City
House panel OKs newspaper sales tax in Iowa
A House Ways and Means Committee vote 17 to 7 backed levying Iowa's 4 percent sales tax on newspapers. Critics argued the press deserves exemption, while supporters say news should contribute fairly. The bill moves to the full House. Senate action appears unlikely.
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Judy Daubenmier
Gazette
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
House
Iowa
Ways and Means
Minnette Doderer
Iona City
U.S. Supreme Court
Minnesota
Tom Swartz
Marshalltown
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Krahl Named Acting Iowa Comptroller
Gov. Branstad appointed William Krahl 58 acting state comptroller replacing Ron Mosher who departs Friday for Life Investors Inc. of Cedar Rapids. Krahl currently directs the Financial Management Division in the comptroller's office.
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Des Moines
Terry Branstad
William Krahl
Ron Mosher
Life Investors Inc
Cedar Rapide
Krahl
Comptroller’s Financial Management
Witness Tampering Charged in Iowa Sex Case
Laverne F. Kerkman 56 former Van Horne mayor is jailed in Benton County Iowa on a witness tampering charge set at 30000 bond. A May 20 preliminary hearing is planned in Benton Magistrate Court at Vinton. Kerkman allegedly tried to bribe a witness to not testify at a May 9 trial related to obscene material involving minors. He previously faced unrelated sex abuse and solicitation charges in 1982 and a Dubuque County case involving a 12-year-old boy.
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Laverne F. Kerkman
van Horne
Benton County
Kerkman
C. Ave
Hiawatha
Benton
Sheriff's Department
Larry W. Belcher
Dubuque
Epworth man charged in fatal Cascade crash
A rural Epworth man, Thomas J. Riniker, 20, is to be arraigned May 16 on involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of Kelly Joan Trumm, 23, in a head-on crash on Highway 151 near Cascade. Riniker, Trumm, and her husband James, 24, were injured in the April 17 wreck.
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Dubuque
Epworth
Hopkinton
Thomas J. Riniker
Route 1
Kelly Joan Trumm
Trumm
Riniker
James
Highway 151
Cascade
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