Harkin encouraged by vote on biodiesel

by Matt Kelley 03/11/10 11:13 AM

A tax credit on biodiesel fuel that expired in December, virtually shutting down that portion of Iowa’s renewable fuels industry, is being revived. The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to extend the dollar-a-gallon tax credit through the end of 2010.
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin says he’s encouraged by the vote for biodiesel. “It passed by 63 to [...]

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Iowa City man charged in girlfriend’s death

by Radio Iowa Contributor 03/11/10 11:11 AM
Eric Osborn

The live-in boyfriend of an Iowa City woman who was found dead earlier this week is now charged with first-degree murder. Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the home of 34-year-old Sarah McKay at 9:30 Sunday night.
McKay was found dead in her bedroom. Her live-in boyfriend, 26-year-old Eric Osborn, admitted hitting her with a [...]

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Judge says Durant principal should not be fired

by Radio Iowa Contributor 03/11/10 11:10 AM

A judge is ruling in favor of a suspended high school principal in eastern Iowa. Following a hearing that concluded early last month, administrative law judge Larry Bartlett says in an 86-page decision that Durant High School principal Monica Rouse should not be fired. School superintendent Duane Bark suspended Rouse with pay last September.
The school [...]

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Students rally at the statehouse over school funding

by O. Kay Henderson 03/11/10 10:26 AM

Over 300 students from about 10 different central Iowa high schools rallied at the statehouse this morning to protest budget cuts at their schools.
 Some came with their band instruments, Some of their chants ended with the phrase: “Save the arts!” Sam Hiatt is a sophomore at Des Moines Roosevelt High School.
“We’re trying to support the [...]

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Vaccine treats nicotine addiction

by Matt Kelley 03/11/10 10:13 AM

Smokers in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area who want to quit are needed to test out a new nicotine-busting drug. Mary Carlson, a nurse practitioner at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, says they’re experimenting with a different way of treating nicotine addiction — through a vaccine.
“It has a nicotine molecule that is attached [...]

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Alliant Energy files for electric rate increase

by Dar Danielson 03/11/10 4:13 AM

Alliant Energy filed a request with the Iowa Utilities Board Wednesday asking for an electric rate increase that would generate $163-million annually for the company. Spokesman Ryan Stensland says the request would put temporary increase into effect later this month for the company’s approximately 480,000 customers in Iowa.
He says the interim increase would be around [...]

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House debates gun rights, domestic abuse

by O. Kay Henderson 03/10/10 5:46 PM

A state legislator whose family runs a gun shop wants the state to give victims of domestic abuse a sales tax credit for buying a gun to defend themselves, but House members have rejected that plan.  
Representative Matt Windschitl, a Republican from Missouri Valley, is a former Marine.  He is a trained gunsmith, too, and Windschitl [...]

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