by O. Kay Henderson | Apr 30, 2013 | Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government, Top Story
Fifty-one Republicans in the Iowa House have formally endorsed Governor Terry Branstad’s “Healthy Iowa Plan” to provide insurance coverage to low-income Iowans who live just below the poverty line. Representative Dave Heaton, a Republican from Mount...
by O. Kay Henderson | Apr 30, 2013 | News, Politics & Government
A handful of state senators tried to divert $25 million more state tax dollars to the Highway 20 expansion project, but 41 of the 50 senators rejected the idea. Senator Rick Bertrand, a Republican from Sioux City, argued finishing Highway 20 as a divided, four-lane...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Apr 30, 2013 | Sports
With the addition of Rutgers and Maryland to the Big Ten, the conference has announced that it will be moving to a nine-game league schedule each season. The conference will also go away from the practice of scheduling FCS teams in their non-conference schedules. That...
by Todd Kimm | Apr 30, 2013 | Sports
Northwestern College has already locked up a spot in the NAIA baseball tournament but coach Brian Wede says his team is still motivated as they prepare for Thursday’s start of the Great Plains Athlertic Conference Tournament in Hastings, Nebraska. The Red...
by O. Kay Henderson | Apr 30, 2013 | Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government
Republicans in the Iowa House are proposing a ban on all taxpayer-funded abortions as well as new rules to forbid pregnant women on Medicaid from choosing to have a cesarean. Republicans estimate the state could save $1.2 million by forbidding Medicaid coverage for...