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• Is Iowa ‘worst’ or ‘best’ in nation for business? Lawmakers squared off today

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 140
  Whether Iowa is a magnet or a turnoff for business was a hot topic for state lawmakers Wednesday. One Republican leader criticized Iowa’s business climate during three legislative forums, which prompted sharp words from a Democratic leader who defended the state. Coincidentally Wednesday, a financial news website ...
  6 hours ago

• Eichhorn to run for secretary of state

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 140
  Republican former state Rep. George Eichhorn today announced his candidacy for secretary of state, citing as a motivating factor a federal audit that found questionable spending in the office during the previous administration. Eichhorn, a Stratford lawyer, unsuccessfully sought the 2008 Republican nomination for ...
  6 hours ago

• Iowa GOP has high hopes for 2010 success

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 617
  A recent Des Moines Register Iowa Poll found Gov. Chet Culver ’s approval rating had dipped to a new low in November, with only 40 percent approving of the job the Democrat is doing . Survey USA polls found the governor’s approval falling from 57 percent in December 2008 to 41 percent in September . When ...
  9 hours ago

• Urbandale library crammed with tax credit groupies

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 140
  Iowa’s tax credit review has proven popular. Roughly 150 people have crammed into the Urbandale Public Library for a meeting that is just beginning.  Roughly 20 are standing. On the line are dozens of tax breaks, mostly for businesses, that will cost the state an estimated $420 million in the current fiscal year, ...
  9 hours ago

• Angel in the skywalk

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Photography — Authority: 103
  I was sitting at my desk yesterday, getting ready for lunch when Tim, a designer who sits across the isle from me mentions that he saw an angel in the skywalk. We wasn’t sure what she was doing, but she was passing out fliers. Needing an excuse to leave the desk, I grabbed my camera armed with a 24-70mm and I hit ...
  10 hours ago

• Culver: I-Jobs projects total more than $560 million

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 140
  Gov. Chet Culver used a forum with Associated Press reporters and editors to tout the latest totals reached by the I-Jobs program. The I-Jobs Board of Directors has approved a total of 1,400 projects, with a price tag of $562,910,944.64. The I-Jobs Web site has a clickable map that leads you to details about each ...
  11 hours ago

• Hunter kills cougar in Iowa!

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 505
  This was the fifth killed in a decade- Hunter kills cougar in Iowa . By Bob Eschliman. World-Herald News Service.
  11 hours ago

• Culver orders $128 million in savings

  
  Des Moines Register — Authority: 715
  Politics Insider blog: Dozens of money-saving measures that include massive technological changes, enhanced debt collection and staff reductions were put in motion today by Gov. Chet Culver.
  12 hours ago

• Next Generation Rockwell Collins Avionics and Pilot Control Systems Make First Flight on 787

  
  Your Story — Authority: 593
  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rockwell Collins’ next generation avionics and pilot control systems contributed to the first flight of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner airplane on Tu
  13 hours ago

• Grassley: I control TV remote at home

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 140
  Chuck Grassley said he might vote for a bill that would curb the volume on television commercials. But it’s more about insuring domestic tranquility than forming a more perfect union, he said. “Since I control the channel switcher in my house, I get tired of my wife telling me to turn it down every time a ...
  13 hours ago

• Bowhunters Success at Timber Life

  
  Timber Life — Authority: 106
  This year the property owners of the area adjacent to Timber Life have made an alliance in an attempt to take control of outsiders hunting without permission. Before bowhunting started we  granted permission to a young man named Mason Loftus, referred to us by a mutual friend ; he also has a working relationship ...
  13 hours ago

• IA: On the Ground in Iowa: Gay Marriage & Politics

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 443
  Last night, I had the pleasure of serving as moderator of a discussion about the politics of the marriage issue in Iowa. David Redlawsk of Rutgers University and Kathie Obradovich, the Register’s political columnist were interesting panelists. It is difficult for me to summarize what these two bright people said. ...
  13 hours ago

• ACLU Calls “Gitmo North” near Iowa border “Alarming”

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 140
  The American Civil Liberties Union says it is opposed  to federal plans to transfer terrorist suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a prison at Thomson, Ill.. calling it an “alarming step.” The administration of President Barack Obama confirmed Tuesday  it plans to acquire the mostly vacant Thomson ...
  14 hours ago

• 2.00% 15-Month CD & 2.50% 23-Month CD at Regions Bank in Several States - Local Only

  
  Bank Deals - Best Rates and Deals — Authority: 439
  Regions Bank has adjusted its special CDs, but they remain competitive in many states. All areas appear to have the same long-term CD special rates: 2.50% APY for 23 months and 3.00% APY for 42 months. The 7-month CD special also appears common for all areas, but its not nearly as competitive with a 1.25% APY. They ...
  14 hours ago

• Iowa mom gets life for murdering son;barred from contacting surviving son

  
  Entertainment News, Sports News, Celebrity News, African American Culture & Community News and Events - Bilal Ali Productions — Authority: 152
  An Iowa mother was sentenced to life without parole Tuesday for slitting her 2-year-old son’s throat and leaving him to die near a remote pond in October 2008, a prosecutor said. Michelle Kehoe, 36, also received 25 years on one count of attempted murder for slashing her older son’s throat. She left both ...
  14 hours ago

• Rental Help Iowa program runs into staffing problems (Dallas County News)

  
  Credit Repair | Free Bad Credit Repair Debt Consolidation Loans — Authority: 135
  Bob Eschliman, Editor About three weeks ago, several members of the Iowa House issued a press release announcing receipt of $11 million of federal stimulus money to assist Iowa families in maintaining or acquiring affordable rental housing. Within the first week of the program, hundreds of Iowans flooded phone lines ...
  15 hours ago

• NRA Out of Line in Iowa(weak ccw)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Manassas, VA --(AmmoLand.com)- The Firearms Coalition yesterday issued a scathing denunciation of legislation proposed by the National Rifle Association for the state of Iowa saying that Iowa is the latest instance of the NRA cavalry riding in to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. In Iowa, Sheriffs have broad ...
  17 hours ago

• Ten (OK, 11) quick thoughts on Big Ten expansion

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Cyclones — Authority: 124
  Sooooooo — can they redesign this thing with a subliminal 12 in the middle of it somewhere? 1. Hmpf. Let’s see: You just made an announcement to say you’re looking into something everyone knows you’ve been looking into for the last, oh, 10-15 years. Odd. 2. So either it’s really coming , or you ...
  20 hours ago

• LATCH Cross Country Car Seat Safety

  
  For The Love of Baby! The Tattooed Mommy Blogger — Authority: 133
  With the holiday season moving into full swing, families across the country are in the car and on the go.  Whether you’re driving across the country to visit family or across town to holiday shop, it is important that your child passengers are riding safely and that child safety seats are used correctly. Our car is ...
  22 hours ago

• Trimming the fat: 5 bowls that we could do without this year

  
  Top Cheddar — Authority: 127
  Im about to do something that I wouldnt normally do.Ive never admitted this ever before, but sometimes there can be too much football. There, I said it. Im not proud of it, but I couldnt sit back and not criticize the amount of bowl games in good conscience.Sure, there are a lot of good unexpected intriguing ...
  23 hours ago

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