by admin | Sep 30, 2008 | Outdoors
A group of Iowa organizations that works for conservation funding is sponsoring a series of forums around the state to discuss the proposed Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund. Rosalyn Lehman, campaign coordinator for the Sustainable Funding Coalition,...
by admin | Sep 30, 2008 | Business, Politics & Government
Republican presidential candidate John McCain met publicly with a handful of Iowa’s top executives this morning, none of whom said they were ready to lay off employees due to the current economic meltdown. “I, like you, am optimistic,”...
by admin | Sep 30, 2008 | Business, Politics & Government
Nine out of ten calls coming into Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley’s offices are from people who oppose the federal government’s proposed 700-billion dollar Wall Street bailout. Grassley says the legislation that was rejected Monday by the U.S. House needs a...
by admin | Sep 30, 2008 | Crime & Courts
Police in Des Moines say surveillance video helped them capture a man believed to be responsible for burglaries at three financial institutions last week. Officers arrested 42-year-old Rick Lee Ivie of Creston on Monday. He was booked in the Polk County Jail on three...
by admin | Sep 30, 2008 | News
Two people were killed, four injured, in a crash late Monday afternoon on Interstate 80 in central Iowa’s Poweshiek County. The Iowa State Patrol reports shortly after 5 P.M., a 2002 Oldsmobile Bravada driven by 46-year-old LeeAnna Jo Vigor of Des Moines was...
