by admin | Sep 30, 2002 | Education
A new set of rankings has nothing to do with the weekend’s college football victories, but Iowa is considered among the best-educated states in the nation. Iowa just missed a top-10 showing on the first-ever “Smartest States” survey. It placed Iowa...
by admin | Sep 30, 2002 | Politics & Government
A report by the Iowa Freedom of Information Council says openess in Iowa government is eroding — and there are plenty of people to blame. Iowa Freedom of Information Council executive secretary Kathleen Richardson says the bad outweighed the good in the report...
by admin | Sep 30, 2002 | Politics & Government
Governor Tom Vilsack is renewing his push to toughen Iowa’s drunken driving law. Iowa lost two-MILLION dollars in federal money this year because the state standard for judging who is driving drunk wasn’t lowered to the .08 percent blood alcohol level. The...
by admin | Sep 30, 2002 | News
Nebraska’s Governor has promised to buy Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack dinner in a restaurant in Iowa. That’s because Vilsack won a bet with the Nebraska Governor when Iowa State throttled Nebraska Saturday in Ames. Cyclone coach Dan McCarney asked Vilsack to...
by admin | Sep 30, 2002 | Politics & Government
Republican U-S Senate candidate Greg Ganske last night asked his opponent, Democrat Senator Tom Harkin, to “come clean” about the details of a taping scandal. The two candidates met face-to-face in their first debate of the campaign season last night on...
