by admin | Mar 30, 2002 | Politics & Government
Iowans who adopt children from overseas will face fewer legal hurdles. Iowa has been the only state in the nation that requires parents who’ve obtained a legal adoption overseas to again go through all the legal hoops of an adoption here, but no more. Governor...
by admin | Mar 29, 2002 | Business
Alliant Energy will ask for an electricity rate increase from the Iowa Utilities Board. Company spokesman John Ruff says it has been seven-to-15 years since Iowa customers have seen a rate hike.Ruff says the rate increase will help pay for investments in utility...
by admin | Mar 29, 2002 | Human Interest
Hundreds of horseback riders are galloping today from across Iowa to Camp Sunnyside near Des Moines. The 35th annual Pony Express Ride to benefit the Easter Seals camp is underway. Steve Bromm, spokesman for the Easter Seals Society, says the riders, with their...
by admin | Mar 29, 2002 | News
Two lawmakers who were key in putting together the legislature’s livestock regulation bill say Iowa farmers would be wise to let the new regulations pass. More than 200 members of the Iowa Farm Bureau recently went to the statehouse to lobby against the bill....
by admin | Mar 29, 2002 | Crime & Courts
Federal agents report a drug bust in Iowa’s capitol city that set a new record for confiscated cash.The Iowa Highway Patrol’s been crowing this year about several large cash seizures but now the U-S Drug Enforcement Administration holds the new title for...
