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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
IOWA CITY — A police officer fired a gun in the Old Capitol Mall, just a couple hundred feet from stores, a medical clinic and University of Iowa offices.
University officials call the 2009 incident an “accidental discharge” and say nobody was injured. But they refused to disclose who did it, how it happened, or how the officer — a state employee working for University of Iowa police — was disciplined. To withhold those details from the public, the university cites a section of Iowa’s open records law which protects personnel information.
Higher education officials in Iowa talked about inconsistencies in the way the state’s universities enforce open records law, but they say those conversations are off limits to the public.
More than three years after the alleged incident, the University of Iowa has made changes to better deal with cases like this, but the aftermath — including allegations of mishandling by U of I administration — could persist for years.
A University of Iowa political science professor predicts possible 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s marriage history could be problematic in early-nominating states Iowa and South Carolina.
Gov. Chet Culver is determined to be remembered as something other than the state’s first incumbent governor in almost half a century to get a pink slip from voters.
Gov. Chet Culver spoke to a crowd of about 75 in Iowa City on Thursday as part of his two-day farewell tour. The outgoing governor outlined what he thinks are the biggest successes — namely flood relief, economic resilience and energy policy — and made little mention of his Republican successor or the incoming class of GOP legislators, who are already making plans to cut some of Culver’s hallmark programs.
Media reports of Americans going abroad in search of affordable medical treatment — they call it medical tourism — have surged in recent years along with debate over federal health care policy. But new empirical evidence about medical tourism from researchers at the University of Iowa finds the practice isn’t very wide-spread.
National Democratic political consultant Tracy Sefl is calling on 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls to pay attention to sluggish flood recovery in Cedar Rapids.
Indecision from the governor-elect and a new round of budget cut proposals from Iowa Republicans could be damning for a two-year-old plan to build a high-speed passenger rail line between Iowa City and Chicago.
Iowa House Republicans’ new budget plan calls for cuts to Iowa’s public universities which higher education officials in the state have already taken issue with.
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