Money’s available to help groups make Iowa Beautiful

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....

Gateway shows fourth quarter loss

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...

Judge puts hold on packer ownership decision

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...

Workshop features alternative crops

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...
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