Summer homeownership contest aims to spur awareness of homeownership benefits, resources (DES MOINES) – The Branstad/Reynolds Administration today announced an innovative summer social media contest presented by the Iowa Finance Authority and the Iowa Association of Realtors®. “The Meaning of Homeownership” contest asks all Iowa mortgage lenders and Realtors® to ask their clients for their […]
Apr 9 2012 | Posted in
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Iowa’s Unemployment Rate Drops To 5.3% Iowa Workforce Development announced this week that Iowa’s unemployment rate had dropped to 5.3% in the month of February as it continues to retain the 6th lowest unemployment rate in the nation. While the national average stayed the same as the previous month: 8.3% for the month of February, […]
Des Moines, Iowa – 5:55 pm. HAZMAT crews collected a letter from and Iowa Representative around 5:30 pm Tuesday afternoon. A clerk for Rep. Abdul-Samad was opening his mail in the House chamber when a letter with no postage or return address was opened and a white powder substance was in the envelope. Reports say […]
State government Web sites will now all have a common look and feel, similar navigation, and serve Iowans from a citizen-centric viewpoint (DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry E. Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds today announced that the Website Standardization Committee established by Executive Order 73 last May has completed the necessary steps to formulate […]
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(BEIJING)- Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds today met China’s Vice President Xi Jinping while in Beijing on a trade mission with the Iowa Soybean Association. Lt. Gov. Reynolds and Vice President Xi met for 45 minutes in The Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. The pair discussed Vice President Xi’s visit to Iowa in […]
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Branstad this afternoon filed a motion with the Iowa Supreme Court to temporarily stay their decision and thus prevent layoffs of all Workforce Development employees and to continue the delivery of critical workforce services to Iowa’s workers and the unemployed. Today’s Iowa Supreme decision in Homan vs. Branstad has struck down […]
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(DES MOINES) – Gov. Branstad today appointed Delores Mertz to the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission and reappointed Thomas Phillips to the Iowa Board of Parole. Mertz, an Ottosen native, currently serves on the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission – a position from which she will resign prior to assuming her new duties. She will begin […]
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Takes a stand for Iowa farmers against unconstitutional California law (DES MOINES) – Gov. Branstad today joined an Amicus Brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opposing California’s fuel standards law that discriminates against Iowa’s corn farmers. Gov. Branstad, along with other Midwestern states, argues that allowing the California Air Resources Board’s unconstitutional fuel […]
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Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management urges Iowans to take three steps toward prevention Website launched to assist Iowans in using codes to reach special community resources (DES MOINES) – Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds are urging Iowans to be prepared year-round for emergencies. The recent tragic tornado outbreaks […]
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Des Moines, Iowa – Education and education reform have been topics at nearly every political roundtable, forum, and listening post on a regular basis for the past several years. Since taking office in January of 2011, Governor Branstad has been working on one of his campaign promises, which he started in March of 2011 with […]
