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Iowa Legal Aid names new executive director

Iowa Legal Aid will kick off the new year with a new leader. Nick Smithberg will succeed Dennis Groenenboom as executive director of on Jan. 4, announced Mark Zaiger, president of the Iowa Legal Aid …

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Boehringer Ingelheim reaches $13.5 million settlement with states

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. will pay $13.5 million to all 50 states, including $178,000 to Iowa, to resolve allegations the drugmaker engaged in off-label marketing and deceptive and misleading representations in its promotion of four …

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… while Business organizations take stock of tax bill’s changes

Several national business organizations applauded passage of the tax bill as a win for their members, while others sharply criticized the bill for failing to carry out promised reforms. 

“The tax bill will help make …

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Iowa’s delegation reacts to tax reform bill …

As you can imagine, Sen. Chuck Grassley thinks a lot more of the newly passed tax plan than Rep. Dave Loebsack — the only Democrat in Iowa’s congressional delegation.

“This historic legislation makes good on …

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Iowa’s delegation reacts to tax reform bill

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Des Moines will cut property tax levy if local option sales tax is approved

The city of Des Moines will devote 50 percent of an estimated $38 million in revenues that would be generated by an additional 1 cent sales tax to property tax relief, provided in the form …

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Polk supervisors to vote on local option sales tax plan

Polk County supervisors plan to use one-third of the revenue that would be generated by an extra 1-cent sales tax for mental health services, with another one-third devoted to property tax relief in unincorporated areas …

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41 percent of Iowa women report experiencing workplace sexual harassment

Des Moines Register: Nearly 1 in 4 employed Iowa women say they have been sexually harassed in the workplace during the past three years, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.…

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FCC repeals net neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission today gave companies the power to reshape Americans’ online experiences — saving faster speeds for certain sites and apps, the New York Times reported.

The agency scrapped a 2015 decision that banned …

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Attorneys general seek delay of net neutrality vote

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller joined 17 state attorneys general on Wednesday in asking the Federal Communications Commission to delay today’s net neutrality rule-making deadline, citing concerns over a possible criminal effort to corrupt the …