Government Policy and Law

The Des Moines City Council will be asked today to approve an application for $1.2 million in tax credits and sales tax rebates to build 65 senior housing units at 2000 High St. in the …

Gov. Terry Branstad and a bipartisan group of 24 other governors are urging President Barack Obama and Congress to pass three pending trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. In addition, the governors are …

The Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Government Policy Council, along with the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute and the Young Professionals Connection, will host an event aimed at those considering public office.

The Public Service Academy …

Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) Director Teresa Wahlert announced that Ed Wallace, currently president of the Iowa Taxpayers Association, will serve as IWD’s deputy director, beginning June 1. A native of Iowa City, Wallace has been …

Polk County has been granted a July 15 extension to complete the property tax assessment appeal process. The extension will give the county’s board of review more time to complete the review of appeals filed …

Ed Wallace, former president of the Iowa Taxpayers Association, has been named deputy director of Iowa Workforce Development. Wallace previously served as an aide to former U.S. Attorney Matthew Whitaker and as an aide to …

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s National Main Streets conference will be May 22-25 in Des Moines. Main Street Iowa, a program of the Downtown Resource Center of the Iowa Department of Economic Development, is …

Gov. Terry Branstad signed a bill last week that raises the base amount of the Endow Iowa Tax Credit program. The bill, supported unanimously in the Iowa House and Iowa Senate, provides an $800,000 increase …

A Nebraska woman says in a federal lawsuit that Google Inc. and two other companies owe her for overtime hours she worked as a facilities coordinator at the Internet behemoth’s Council Bluffs data center.

Michele …