by admin | Dec 7, 1999 | Business
While some people are concerned about the Y-2-K computer glitch effecting banks or utilities at midnight on New Year’s Eve, food suppliers are also readying for the year 2000. The president of the Iowa Grocery Industry Association says we will not run out of...
by admin | Dec 4, 1999 | Health & Medicine, Recreation / Entertainment
An industrious millennium project is being undertaken by the Des Moines Art Center that’s recruiting photographers in every Iowa county. The shutter bugs are needed to shoot pictures of people in certain places who are also of certain ages,Laura Burkhalter is...
by admin | Nov 30, 1999 | Business
The Superintendant of Iowa Credit Unions says all of Iowa’s 1999 state-chartered institutions are ready for the year 2000. Jim Forney says it’s been a long process.The announcement by the state officials overseeing credit unions follows the same...
by admin | Nov 29, 1999 | Politics & Government
The Iowa Department of Human Services is trying to head off more Y-2-K fears, some 33 days before the arrival of the year two-thousand. D-H-S spokesman Scott Kiefer says some people, like Medicaid recipients, fear computer crashes will effect their coverage. Kiefer...
by admin | Nov 23, 1999 | Politics & Government
A new Congressional report warns America’s air traffic control system is NOT prepared for Y-2-K and could be at risk of failure in 38 days. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he’s been told there could be a few minor glitches, but had been under the...