by admin | Jan 27, 1999 | Politics & Government
Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Bradley will be inIowa City next week to speak at the University of Iowa campus. Bradley is aformer US Senator from New Jersey. He’ll give a reading from one of hisbooks on Tuesday evening.
by admin | Jan 27, 1999 | Crime & Courts
The Randolph State Bank has been ordered to pay restitutionto two farmers whose checks they refused to honor. The farmers had written the checks to their farm landlords. A Mills County jury says the bankintentionally interfered with the men’s leases by not...
by admin | Jan 27, 1999 | Crime & Courts
The Council Bluffs city council has suspended theliquor license of a bar where an underage drinker fell out of a second storywindow. Edibles and Spirits will lose its license for six months. Thepunishment falls short of the council’s original plan to revoke the...
by admin | Jan 27, 1999 | Business
A study of Iowa’s workforce says the current worker shortageis Iowa’s most serious problem since the 1980’s farm crisis. The report,prepared by the Iowa Business Council, finds a quarter of a million Iowajobs go unfilled due to a lack of trained...
by admin | Jan 27, 1999 | Weather
) A University of Iowa professor is working on the nextgeneration of snowplows. Civil and Enviornmental Engineering ProfessorWilfred Nixon studies ice. He’s working with the Department ofTransportation to develop plows and blades which require less work from...
