by admin | Jan 30, 2003 | Outdoors
If you or your group are interested in helping keep Iowa clean, the Iowa Department of Transportation now has money available for you projects. the D-O-T’s Mary Christy says the money is from the first year of the “Keep Iowa Beautiful” tax checkoff....
by admin | Jan 30, 2003 | Business, Technology
Gateway released its fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday — the computer maker lost 72-million dollars or 22-cents a share and has lost money in eight of the last nine quarters. Gayle Rose, a financial analyst in Sioux City — where the company started, says...
by admin | Jan 30, 2003 | Crime & Courts
Iowa’s ban on packer ownership of livestock is alive — at least for a while. The federal judge who ruled a few days ago that the ban was unconstitutional has now issued a stay.Bob Brammer, a spokesman for Iowa’s Attorney General, says a stay means...
by admin | Jan 30, 2003 | News
While Iowa’s known for leading the world in corn production, hundreds of other farmers are growing all sorts of other produce that are in high demand. A three-day educational workshop opened this morning in Marshalltown that caters to those “alternate...
by admin | Jan 30, 2003 | Health & Medicine
The Iowa Safe Kids Coalition is urging legislators to pass a law that’d require parents to buy booster seats for preschoolers who’ve outgrown their car seat. Linda Plummer, the child advocate at Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines, is a member of...