Tamraz ties to Harkin deny access plan amid Senate hearing
Oil financier Roger Tamraz told the Senate committee he paid 300000 for access to the White House and Clinton, denying that a 35000 Iowa Democratic Party donation aimed to win entry to the Overseas Private Investment Corp. He said past Republican donations were for access, while describing his proffered Caspian pipeline plan and past covert ties.
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County rejects all bids for farm site to build juvenile detention center
Linn County supervisors abandon plans to salvage or reuse buildings on Walford Road after bids total just 382 dollars. Highest offer was 300 dollars for an 1890 farmhouse. County buys 4.79 acre site for 142 thousand, approves a 5.08 million construction bid and 39.5 thousand for design work. Target opening spring 1999.
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Goldberg
Metro Area Housing Program
Bill Croghan
Cedar Rapids
Alburnett
Center Point
Linn County
Miller Avenue
Lumir Dostal
Taylor Ball
Shive-Hattery Inc
Tobacco legislation stalled in Iowa talks collapse
Talks on a fall special session to empower Attorney General Miller to sue tobacco companies and recover Medicaid costs collapsed. Miller called the impasse a lost opportunity as lawmakers, urging bipartisan accord, balked at broad changes to product liability law despite potential monthly losses of 2.75 million dollars.
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Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Tom Miller
Miller
House
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Council Bluffs
Polk County
Iowa
Invasion of Crickets Pests Iowa Homes This Year
Rural Iowa residents face an unusually large cricket invasion this year. ISU entomologist Donald Lewis explains crickets enter homes through cracks as adults seek mates after a summer of reproduction, dying from dehydration or pesticide exposure.
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Tina
Nick Mason-Browne
Donald Lewis
Iowa State University
Lewis
Iowa
ISU Loses Recruit to U of I In Iowa Battle
Alonzo Cunningham a 6 foot 4 inch 280 pound lineman from Iowa City High reneged on a deal to play for ISU. The Cyclones feel disappointment while a University of Iowa recruiter says the choice was correct. Cunningham path remains unclear.
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Iowa City High
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Monticello Cat Draws Customers From Window
Mijo the Fat Cat, known as The Fat Cat, lounges in the window at Shoppers Guide. Roger Bryant says the feline attracts shoppers and boosts business, per Ramblin’, 1B.
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Mijo
Fat Cat
Roger Bryant
Executives cut from appliance company
Three top Amana executives lose their jobs after a recent acquisition. Details, 11A.
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Amana
Elkader Man Credits Skelton as Good Soldier to Late Comedian
Ma Lloyd Mueller trained the late comedian and recalled Skelton as a good soldier in a brief 1B item, noting the scene in Elkader.
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Skelton
Lloyd Mueller
Oldest North American mounds found in Louisiana Watson Brake site
Researchers led by Joe Saunders of Northeast Louisiana University report 11 mounds at Watson Brake near Monroe, Louisiana, dating construction to about 5,400 years ago, making them the oldest known human built structures in North America. The site shows extensive earthworks built by seasonal hunter gatherers who fished riverine resources and collected shellfish and small animals.
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Louisiana
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Watson Brake
Monroe
Joe Saunders
Northeast Louisiana University
Saunders
Science
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