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A Closer Look: Marketa Oliver

Marketa Oliver started work in May 2017 as Bondurant city administrator, a job title she has grown into over a 30-year career. After Oliver graduated from Drake University, she worked in the city manager’s office …

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Revenue Department offers tax-reform information

The Iowa Department of Revenue is developing information on the rollout of the tax reform legislation approved by state lawmakers last session and signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds. The new tax law modifies individual income …

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Iowans request nearly 50,000 absentee voters, shattering records for primary elections

A total of 49,808 Iowans had cast absentee ballots for today’s primary by the close of business on Monday, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate announced in a release. The previous high mark was 40,718 in …

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Mexico to set 20 percent tariff on U.S. pork

Mexico will impose a 20 percent tariff on U.S. pork imports in retaliation over the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs on Mexican exports, Reuters reports. The tariffs, which were announced by Mexican industry officials but …

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New high of registered voters ahead of June 5 primary

Iowa has more active registered voters than before any June primary in Iowa history, according to a release from the Iowa secretary of state’s office. There are currently 1,964,522 registered voters in the state. The …

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Reynolds names Koopmans chief of staff

Gov. Kim Reynolds has hired a top legal and policy adviser as chief of staff effective June 9. Ryan Koopmans previously served as Reynolds’ chief policy adviser and senior legal counsel. He had been a …

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Reynolds signs largest tax cut in Iowa history

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Gov. Kim Reynolds made good Wednesday on one of her first pledges as governor, signing legislation to enact the largest state income tax reduction in Iowa history. When phased in over six years, …

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Leaving his mark

It would be easy to say that copyright and entertainment lawyer Brandon Clark is just another son-of-a-music-publisher based in Des Moines who nearly hit it big with his own band and has had quite a …

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Iowa’s homeland security chief retires

Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Mark Schouten will retire May 31. “Over the past seven years, Mark has overseen the state’s response to and recovery from many disasters, including 11 that …

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Committed to going ‘above and beyond’

Dennis Henderson retired Jan. 19 after serving 22 years as Clive city administrator, ending a career in public life that grew from curiosity.

Nearly three decades before he arrived in Clive — a town, he …