Year: 2017

School board elections were held yesterday, plus voters in one eastern Iowa district approved the largest school bonding plan in state history. Iowa law requires 60 percent of voters to approve any district’s plan to issue bonds and raise money for school construction. In the Iowa City School District, a record 20 percent of eligible […]Powered by WPeMatico

The Iowa Utilities Board is spreading the word about the federal Lifeline Program which helps low-income residents of the state pay for communications services. IUB spokesman, Donald Tormey, explains how the program works. “They’re entitled to receive a discount of at least $9.25 per month off their monthly telecommunications bill,” Tormey says. “And that $9.25 per […]Powered by WPeMatico

Activists from all 50 states are in Washington D.C. this week to lobby members of Congress to pump more money into cancer research. Among Iowa’s representatives, Angela Sylling, of Johnston, is a volunteer advocate for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network. Sylling is calling for Congress to increase funding for cancer research at the […]Powered by WPeMatico

The Internal Revenue Service has never been anyone’s favorite agency, according to Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, but his new legislation may help people to detest the IRS a little less. Grassley is introducing what he’s calling the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights Enforcement Act. Grassley says, “The bill would improve customer service at the IRS, create […]Powered by WPeMatico

A Glenwood woman is facing charges in the death of her 8-year-old daughter. According to the Mills County Attorney’s Office, 34-year-old Misty Frazier is charged with child endangerment resulting in death and distributing a drug to a minor without a prescription. The charges stem from an October 2016 incident where first responders were called to […]Powered by WPeMatico

Governor Kim Reynolds today said there are many “potential outcomes” from her trade mission to Israel. Reynolds and two dozen other Iowans have been in Israel since last Thursday. “We’ve had the opportunity to meet with numerous Israeli companies that are interested in either investment or trade with Iowa,” she told Iowa reporters during a telephone conference […]Powered by WPeMatico

Some crews from Iowa are already there and others are leaving today to be part of an estimated 17,000 utilities workers who are helping Florida turn the power back on after Hurricane Irma. MidAmerican Energy spokesman Adam Jacobi says the company headquartered in Des Moines sent around 250 workers to Florida. He says the staging […]Powered by WPeMatico

School board elections are being held today, but a small segment of registered voters are expected to participate. “This year alone we have 330 school districts roughly and over 900 school board positions on the ballot and when you only see four-to-seven percent turnout out to vote for those kind of positions, we can do […]Powered by WPeMatico