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Vilsack warns Iowa: Pass ‘significant’ water quality plan in ‘17 or “there is going to be hell to pay’

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told an Ames audience at a small-business conference today that Iowa political leaders of both parties need to pass a major water quality and soil conservation plan next year, or…
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Greater Des Moines Leadership institute announces 2017 class

The Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute has selected 50 people for its 2017 class. Each individual is nominated by an alumnus and vetted in a competitive selection process. Class members will spend the next nine …

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Greater Des Moines Leadership institute announces 2017 class

The Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute has selected 50 people for its 2017 class. Each individual is nominated by an alumnus and vetted in a competitive selection process. Class members will spend the next nine …

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Workers’ compensation rate decrease proposed

Iowa workers’ compensation premiums would decrease by nearly 5 percent on average under a proposed rate decrease filed with the Iowa Insurance Division last week. The rate filing, which would be effective Jan. 1, 2017, proposes an …

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Arbitrator suspended over handling of workforce case

The Iowa Public Employment Relations Board last week suspended arbitrator John Sandy for six months over the mishandling of a case involving fired Administrative Law Judge Susan Ackerman. Ackerman’s case involved accusations of wrongdoing in …

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Report gives high rankings for Iowa health systems

Health systems in Iowa were consistently ranked among the top in the nation on all measures of performance, the Iowa Hospital Association said in a blog post. The association cited the recently released 2016 Scorecard on Local …

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Dakota Access opponents petition for IUB liaison officer

Opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline say the Iowa Utilities Board needs a streamlined complaint system, including a public liaison, The Des Moines Register reported. The Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club and the Science and …

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Fair-Play Scoreboards to move out of Iowa

After 93 years in Iowa, Fair-Play Scoreboards will no longer be manufactured in Des Moines.


Trans-Lux Corp., which acquired the family-owned company in 1997, will move the scoreboard manufacturing operation to a new 66,000-square-foot factory…
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Linn County supervisor proposes $10.25 minimum wage by 2019

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Linn County residents could see a $10.25 minimum wage by 2019. On Monday, Linn County Board of Supervisors Chairman Ben Rogers unveiled his plan to increase the countywide minimum wage by $1 a …

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Des Moines tech company donates services for flooded W.V. town

A Des Moines technology company is helping a West Virginia town re-create cemetery records lost during historic flooding in June, the Charleston Gazette Mail reported. NewCom Technologies was emailed by the mayor of Clendenin, W.V., asking if …