by admin | May 31, 2005 | Education
School may be out for summer for most students but some serious academic effort is going on this week, at the national spelling bee in Washington. Iowa’s representative will be 13-year-old Isaac Kurth, an 8th-grader at Harding Middle School in Des Moines. He...
by admin | May 31, 2005 | Crime & Courts
This was a four-day weekend for many workers in the state court system, thanks to an unpaid furlough last Friday. It was the last of 8 weekdays scheduled during this fiscal year that the clerk-of-court offices were locked to cope with a budget shortfall, and next year...
by admin | May 30, 2005 | Health & Medicine
It’s estimated nine of every ten Iowa kids riding in a car safety seat right now is -not- properly buckled in, according to a study by Triple-A-Iowa. Jennifer Ruby, a child advocate and certified safety seat technician, says the study translates to most kids...
by admin | May 30, 2005 | Outdoors
A man-made southwest Iowa lake that was drained is refilling fast, thanks to this year’s wet spring. Lake Icaria near Corning covers 700 acres and was drained last summer. Dan Carl is director of the Adams County Conservation Board, which manages the lake....
by admin | May 30, 2005 | Military
While some states are gearing up for a fight to keep their military bases from closing — Iowa is looking forward to some new military construction. Middletown, Muscatine, Cedar Rapids and Waterloo could all see new projects. Doug Waggoner, is the chief of staff...
