(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry E. Branstad today announced that Beth Townsend will be the Director of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission in the Branstad/Reynolds administration. “Today I am pleased to announce that Beth Townsend will serve as the Director of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission,” said Branstad. “Beth’s experience representing individuals before the commission […]
Jan 21 2011 | Posted in
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ANKENY, Iowa (January 20, 2011) – A family of three credits the activation of their smoke detectors with providing them sufficient time to escape their burning home early this morning. The Ankeny Fire Department was dispatched on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 12:49 a.m., to a residential structure fire at 1930 NW 70th Place, SW […]
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DES MOINES – The DNR is now accepting applications for a grant designed to help locally-led groups develop water quality improvement efforts in Iowa communities. Groups can request Watershed Planning Grants from $10,000 to $50,000 to develop plans to improve a local river, lake or stream on the state’s impaired waters list. Offered by the […]
Jan 21 2011 | Posted in
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January 19, 2011 (Des Moines, Iowa) – The Iowa Travel Guide is available to order online from www.traveliowa.com or by phone at 800.345.IOWA. All Iowa Welcome Centers stock the guide as well. An online version of the updated guide is available at www.traveliowa.com. The four-color, 184-page guide is Iowa’s comprehensive trip-planning publication, with listings from […]
Jan 20 2011 | Posted in
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Ruling: Plaintiffs’ Arguments “Fatally Flawed” (DES MOINES, Iowa) U.S. District Judge Robert W. Pratt Wednesday granted Attorney General Tom Miller’s request to dismiss a legal challenge of Iowa’s judicial and retention system, which Iowans adopted through a constitutional amendment. “Today Judge Pratt very soundly upheld the will of the people of Iowa,” said Miller. “This […]
Jan 20 2011 | Posted in
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AMES, Iowa – Jan. 20, 2011 – More travel headaches could face motorists in Iowa over the next 24 hours, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation. Light snow is expected to fall over the northern parts of the state through Friday, and overnight low temperatures may fall well below zero in some areas. Dangerous […]
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Des Moines, January 19, 2011— The State Judicial Nominating Commission has released completed questionnaires and writing samples submitted by sixty persons seeking nomination for appointment to the Iowa Supreme Court. This information is available to the public and posted on the Iowa Judicial Branch website: www.iowacourts.gov Currently, the court has three vacancies, which occurred after voters decided […]
Jan 20 2011 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $775,351 National Emergency Grant to assist about 115 workers affected by layoffs at five companies in northeast Iowa. “Only another job can replace a job lost,” said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. “Training and employment services provided through today’s grant can help these workers […]
(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry E. Branstad today signed on to Florida’s federal health care lawsuit, joining 27 other states in this effort, including Virginia, which filed their own lawsuit. The lawsuit challenges the individual mandate that would force Iowans to buy the federal government’s mandated health insurance, as well as the Medicaid expansion that […]
Jan 19 2011 | Posted in
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DES MOINES – Iowa’s estimated 52 million rural and 3 million urban ash trees are facing certain death after the emerald ash borer was found on an island in the Mississippi River, near New Albin. Emerald ash borer kills ash trees by the tunneling activity of its larvae under the tree bark, which disrupts flow […]
Jan 18 2011 | Posted in
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