by admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Crime & Courts, Human Interest
The names of nearly 100 people who were killed last year in criminal acts in Iowa were read aloud today at a statehouse ceremony. The gathering in the capitol rotunda was part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. Lynetta Hall-Parrott of Chicago spoke...
by admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Education, Health & Medicine
The state Board of Education is putting in place some controversial new nutrition standards for Iowa schools — but they will not take effect immediately. In 2008, the Iowa Legislature passed The Healthy Kids Act to combat obesity. But implementing the law and...
by admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Education
The three state supported universities presented their plans for budget cuts to the State Board of Regents today. Those cuts included a sweeping reorganization of the Iowa State University Extension Department. I.S.U. President Greg Geoffrey explained they will cut...
by admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley, a Democrat from Waterloo, is participating in a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing today on the Swine Flu or H-1-N-1 virus outbreak. Braley says the remarks made today by Vice President Biden on traveling will be a topic of...
by admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Politics & Government
Governor Chet Culver has appointed his chief of staff to serve as director of the Iowa Department of Human Services. Culver had appointed Gene Gessow to be chief of the agency, but Republicans in the senate voted against Gessow’s confirmation to the post and...
