High tech workers scarce push East Iowa firms to recruit nationwide
East Iowa firms scramble for engineers and other high tech staff as local supply dries up. Noland Corp recruits Howington from South Carolina and Libonati from Florida to Cedar Rapids while Rockwell reports 340 open positions, 199 in engineering, illustrating a national talent squeeze and costly recruitment.
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Iowa
Howington
South Carolina
Libonati
Florida
Jim Harrington
Noland
Rockwell International Corp
Teel Salam
Wellman Evaluates Electric Utility Move Amid Deregulation Talk
Wellman mayor says the city may buy the municipal gas system’s electric arm as part of a shift toward deregulation. RPGI members and 28 Eastern Iowa towns look to shop for power beyond IES Utilities, signaling possible consumer choices similar to telephone service.
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Dale Kueter
Wellman
Washington County
Iowa
Resale Power Group of Iowa
RPGI
IES Utilities
Veterans make up large share of Eastern Iowa homeless
A survey by the International Union of Gospel Missions finds about one third of homeless men in Eastern Iowa shelters are veterans. Shelter leaders in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids note many veterans, mostly from Vietnam, pass through, with long term psychological effects and financial hardship.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Iowa
Adam Lowenstein
International Union of Gospel Missions
Julia Rembert
Willis Dady
Kevin Hapner
Hapner
Rembert
Associated Press
Grain shortages cloud world food picture
The AP surveys faltering 1990s grain harvests as world population rises faster than output. FAO warns production must grow 75 percent by 2025. reserves fall below safety levels. Skeptics point to political upheavals, subsidy cuts, bad weather, and land use shifts from the Kansas prairie to China’s river deltas.
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Kansas
China
Africa
Food and Agriculture Organization
Rome
FAO
Jacques Diouf
U.N
Soviet Union
U.S
America
Russia
Lester Brown
Washington
Worldwatch Institute
Fifteen More Army Supervisors Suspended in Aberdeen Probe
Fifteen drill sergeants and instructors at the Army Ord nance Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground were suspended in a widening sexual misconduct investigation involving female recruits. No charges yet. post spokesman says possible.
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Army Training Center
Army Ordnance Center
Post
John Yaquiant
Yaquiant
Maj
Susan Gibson
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