by admin | Apr 29, 2006 | Politics & Government
A candidate for Congress from Iowa’s First District is calling for a “federal gas-tax holiday” this summer. Bettendorf Republican Brian Kennedy says that would save every driver about 18-cents a gallon. “We have to do this,” Kennedy says,...
by admin | Apr 29, 2006 | Health & Medicine
Monday begins “Cover the Uninsured Week” and one Iowan is telling her story to illustrate the plight of those who don’t have health insurance. Phyllis Harkey lives in Des Moines. She says she’s a single self-employed mother of two teenage boys...
by admin | Apr 29, 2006 | Recreation / Entertainment
Producers are setting up to shoot a film in the eastern Iowa town of Norway, just southwest of Cedar Rapids. The movie will be called “The Final Season” and will center on the Norway High School baseball team, which was cut by the Benton Community Schools...
by admin | Apr 28, 2006 | Politics & Government
Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, says his fellow Republicans will have a tough election in November, and he’s worried the GOP leadership in Congress isn’t “getting it” yet.”The last two weeks have...
by O. Kay Henderson | Apr 28, 2006 | Education, News
The board that governs Iowa’s three state universities met Friday and voted to make Benjamin Allen the new president of the University of Northern Iowa. Allen’s been a transportation professor and academic vice president at Iowa State University. On Friday...
