by admin | Dec 30, 1999 | Crime & Courts
The Iowa Attorney General’s office is warning businesses in the state about a last-minute Y-2-K scam. Bob Brammer, a spokesman for the Attorney General, says some businesses have received a Y-2-K readiness survey that must be faxed back to a 900 number at a cost...
by admin | Dec 29, 1999 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, Technology
There’s been so much hype and warning, many computer experts believe there won’t be much effect at all by the Y-2-K bug. Still, the chief of the Central Iowa Computer Users Group fears there WILL still be trouble, but not due to the date change on January...
by admin | Dec 29, 1999 | Human Interest
Iowans who want to commemorate the new year with a special souvenir don’t have to look far — only as far as their mailbox. Most post offices across Iowa are offering a millennium postmark for both December 31st, 1999 and January 1st of 2000. U-S Postal...
by admin | Dec 29, 1999 | Crime & Courts, Technology
The Mayor of Seattle has cancelled his city’s planned New Year’s Eve celebration at the famous Space Needle, but the big millennium party in Iowa’s Capital City will go on. Fifteen mayors in the Des Moines Metro-area are hosting a huge New...
by admin | Dec 29, 1999 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, Technology
One of Iowa’s largest electricity providers is warning people about the use of gas-powered generators on New Year’s Eve. Alliant Energy spokesman David Giroux (jer-OH) says generator sales have gone through the roof recently but people don’t always...
