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Meet Matt Hinch

The issue: Tax reform

Tax reform is a key issue for the Greater Des Moines Partnership, especially targeted tax relief for businesses and commercial property tax reform. Hinch is responsible for laying out the Partnership’s …

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Water rates to rise in rural areas and towns

Des Moines Water Works will increase its water rates to some Polk and Warren county users by 5 percent next year, it said in a news release.

The rate increase is based on infrastructure  improvements …

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National child protection conference begins in Des Moines

The National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children (National DEC) and the Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy announced today’s opening of the Ninth annual National Drug Endangered Children conference at the Des Moines Marriott Downtown. …

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InFocus says it is making good on unpaid taxes

The attorney representing InFocus Partners and related companies in settling unpaid taxes with the Internal Revenue Service issued a statement today saying that the professional employer organization has paid its tax bill for 2012 and …

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Defense attorney tried to extort nursing home officials, Supreme Court says

A West Des Moines defense attorney attempted to extort money from this ex-wife’s former employer and force the resignation of a company executive and a board member, according to a ruling today by the Iowa …

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States spend less than half of mortgage settlement to prevent foreclosures

Multimillion-dollar payments made earlier this year by five major mortgage servicers to the states were intended to provide a measure of restitution on behalf of homeowners who lost equity in the market collapse or lost…
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Officials say Obama to play hardball on ‘fiscal cliff’ matters

Administration officials said President Barack Obama is ready to play hardball and is prepared to veto legislation to block year-end tax hikes and spending cuts unless Republicans agree to raise tax rates for the wealthy, …

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Want to fix the economy? U of I experts have ideas

While presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spar about who has the best plan to fix the U.S. economy, some University of Iowa professors have some suggestions of their own:

Stimulate spending by cutting taxes for …

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Hy-Vee supervisors sue grocer for overtime pay

Hy-Vee Inc. failed to properly compensate some of its department managers when they worked more than 40 hours a week, according to 13 lawsuits filed Monday in federal court in Des Moines.

The lawsuits represent …

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Group opposes extending estate tax benefits as ‘poor fiscal policy’

Extending federal tax breaks for 40 Iowa families inheriting multimillion-dollar estates is a bad idea, especially when combined with other proposals that would end tax benefits used by more than 86,000 families just to get …