by Radio Iowa Contributor | Feb 27, 2016 | News
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says two new research reports show the production of ethanol has become much more efficient. He says the reports address one of his top concerns in the debate over the corn-based fuel. “Some of those folks who oppose...
by Dar Danielson | Feb 26, 2016 | Military, News
The Iowa Air National Guard celebrated the 75th anniversary of the 132nd Wing based in Des Moines in a ceremony Friday. The 132nd began on February 25th in 1941, starting with training planes, and them moving on to the several others. The commander of the Iowa Guard,...
by Dar Danielson | Feb 26, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News
The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a Muscatine man accused of a sex crime involving his granddaughter. Aquiles Alvarado was convicted by a jury of two counts of lascivious acts with a child, for touching the genitals of the nine-year-old girl in...
by O. Kay Henderson | Feb 26, 2016 | Education, News, Politics & Government
Johnson County currently has a minimum wage that’s higher than the state’s and officials in neighboring Linn County are considering a similar move. Governor Terry Branstad says it “would be better” if the base rate for hourly wages was set on a...
by O. Kay Henderson | Feb 26, 2016 | Business, News, Politics & Government
Governor Terry Branstad says he could go along with House Republicans’ plan to extend $95 million in state tax breaks to Iowa small business owners and farmers who purchased assets in 2015. “It will be tight and it will use up a lot of the surplus over and...