by admin | Dec 28, 2000 | Education
The 2001 Iowa Legislature will tackle the teacher pay issue, but teachers won’t get a dramatic pay raise next year. It’ll be an incremental increase at best as legislative leaders and the Governor feel the constraints of a tight state budget. Senator Nancy...
by admin | Dec 28, 2000 | Sports
The Iowa State Cyclones play their first bowl game in 22-years, tonight, as they take on Pittsburgh in the Insight-dot-com bowl in Phoenix. Iowa State is 8-3 while Pittsburgh is 7-4 and Cyclone Coach Dan McCarney says the Panther’s record is deceiving. He says...
by admin | Dec 28, 2000 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
A Davenport semi-driver is wanted for fleeing the scene of an accident that injured seven people on Interstate-80 yesterday. Davenport police say a mini-van carrying seven people was rear-ended by a semi yesterday and pushed into a ditch. Cops say 40-year-old Allen...
by admin | Dec 28, 2000 | Politics & Government
The U-S Census Bureau released figures today that show good news for Iowa’srepresentation in the U-S House. The Census Bureau says Iowa’s populationgrew by five-point-four percent since 1990 to just over two-point-ninemillion people. The population...
by admin | Dec 28, 2000 | Human Interest
Kids with “cabin fever” have been able to burn off a little excess energythis week at the State Historical Building. Spokesman Roger Munns saysthey’ve had couple of hundred kids come in each of day since Tuesday to takeadvantage of special activities...
