by admin | Dec 31, 2007 | News
New Year’s Eve can be a dangerous night on Iowa roads, especially because of motorists who have been drinking alcohol. Iowa Department of Public Safety Director Gene Meyer says young people represent a large percentage of the people killed every year in crashes...
by admin | Dec 31, 2007 | Politics & Government
When the clock strikes midnight, there will be 66 and a half hours ’til the doors open Thursday night for Iowa’s Caucuses. Each of the candidates competing here for votes spent the weekend meeting voters in person. Tonight, Bill and Hillary Clinton plan a...
by admin | Dec 31, 2007 | Health & Medicine
It’s the time for making New Year’s resolutions and Iowa women are being encouraged to take better care of themselves and to take charge of their families’ wellbeing ,too. Dr. Joann Shaffer, a disease prevention specialist, says she’s trying to...
by admin | Dec 31, 2007 | News
The Iowa Secretary of Agriculture is calling for improved odor controls and conservation efforts in 2008. Republican Bill Northey says he hopes lawmakers will support a five year, $22 million initiative to battle livestock odors. Critics of the plan say livestock...
by admin | Dec 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
A spokesman for the Iowa Department of Transportation says it looks like traffic deaths in the state will be right around the 10-year average once all the information is in. Scott Falb monitors the information in the DOT’s Office of Driver Services. Falb...