by Matt Kelley | Apr 30, 2014 | Business, News
The parent company for Iowa’s largest energy supplier has a new name. MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company has changed its name to Berkshire Hathaway Energy. Julie White, a spokesperson for Des Moines-based MidAmerican Energy, says the name change won’t...
by O. Kay Henderson | Apr 30, 2014 | News, Politics & Government
The Iowa House and Senate have passed legislation that, for the first time, puts a definition of elder abuse in Iowa law. Senator Mary Jo Wilhelm, a Democrat from Cresco, helped guide the bill through the Iowa General Assembly. “It creates a process to obtain a...
by Dar Danielson | Apr 30, 2014 | Crime & Courts, News
The Iowa Court of Appeals has agreed with a lower court ruling that a Mason City woman’s discrimination suit had no evidence to support it. Lori Johnson had sued FedEx, saying she was discriminated against, retaliated against, and then fired when she sought a...
by Dar Danielson | Apr 30, 2014 | Business, News
Production got underway Tuesday in Clinton on the first load of concrete railroad ties made by a company based in Germany called Rail One. Chief executive officer, Jochen Riepl, says Rail One has been trying for a long time to break into the U.S. market. And once it...
by Matt Kelley | Apr 30, 2014 | Business, News
Contract talks open today between Alcoa and the United Steelworkers union. The four-year contract expires on May 15th and affects 5,000 union members in Iowa and 7 other states. Local 105 represents 1,700 hourly workers at the Alcoa plant’s Davenport Works. Mike...
