by admin | Nov 29, 2001 | Uncategorized
The republican conservative who’s chairman of the Iowa House Ways and Means tax-writing committee has some money problems of his own. Representative Jamie Van Fossen of Davenport is facing foreclosure on his house. Problems for the four-term legislator...
by admin | Nov 29, 2001 | Education
It’s what the classroom of the future -should- look like and it opened this week at the University of Northern Iowa. The room is called Studio I-T, which stands for Innovative Teaching, and it’s bristling with the latest in computer gadgetry. Jason Vetter...
by admin | Nov 29, 2001 | Crime & Courts, Fires/Accidents/Disasters
One man’s under arrest in Lee County in the hit-and-run death of a Keokuk man whose body was found along Highway 218. Investigators say the 22-year-old man had been walking north along the road early yesterday morning when he was hit from behind. Later in the...
by admin | Nov 29, 2001 | Crime & Courts, Politics & Government
A state legislative committee is recommending that Iowa create a centralized child abuse hotline. Republican State Representative Dan Boddicker of Tipton envisions a hotline that runs like the poison control center hotline.Boddicker says anyone who suspected abuse...
by admin | Nov 29, 2001 | Crime & Courts, Fires/Accidents/Disasters
About 100 Iowa farmers sat through a session on agri-terrorism yesterday. Charlie Norris, who farms near Mason City, says the forum at the Iowa Farm Bureau’s annual convention is proof times have really changed.Norris says farmers used to worry about kids mowing...
