by admin | Feb 28, 2000 | Crime & Courts
The roughly four-hundred uniformed troopers in the Iowa State Highway Patrol will receive trigger locks tomorrow. Patrol spokesman Sergeant David Garrison says when a trooper’s off-duty, the locks are to be placed on their “service weapon.”Garrison...
by admin | Feb 28, 2000 | Technology
Is the half-a-Billion dollar state-owned fiber optic network a boondoggle? When the Iowa Communications Network was created a decade ago, supporters said it would provide “distance learning” by teaching courses over the two-way audio/video connection....
by admin | Feb 28, 2000 | Sports
University of Iowa women’s basketball coach Angie Lee announced this morning she’s resigning effective May 1st. Lee’s team has a 9-17 record after losing Sunday to Purdue, but Lee says she’s not being pushed out. Lee says some changes need to...
by admin | Feb 28, 2000 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
An Iowa delegation met with an official from the federal Health Care Financing Administration in Washington, D.C. today to brief him on a proposal to revamp the state’s elder care system. Under the proposal the state would create a “long-term care”...
by admin | Feb 28, 2000 | Crime & Courts
A Des Moines legislator is accused of making obscene phone calls over his cell phone — and a political science professor says Representative Mike Cataldo will face questions about the case in his re-election race, should he choose to run again.Drake University...