Government Policy and Law

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 …

The Greater Des Moines Partnership will hold the May installment of its Caucus & Community event from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today at the Eastview Building at Norwalk Schools, 1600 North Ave.

The event will …

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress today he would start tapping into federal pension funds to free up borrowing capacity as the nation hits the $14.294 trillion legal limit on its debt, Reuters reported.…

The Obama administration has proposed cyber security legislation to improve protection for individuals and the federal government, BusinessInsurance.com reported. The measure, which would include national data-breach reporting, voluntary government assistance and penalties for computer criminals, …

Sen. Chuck Grassley, who spoke during a breakfast meeting this morning with Greater Des Moines Partnership members in Washington, D.C., told the Business Record that he’d like to see Congress vote on a constitutional amendment …

President Barack Obama urged businesses to “step up” and hire workers, pressing banks and other corporations to do more to help an economy that he said would take “several years” to recover fully, Reuters reported.…

The Greater Des Moines Partnership’s 2011 trip to Washington, D.C., begins Wednesday, and transportation figures to be a big concern of participants, Senior Vice President of Public Policy Jay Byers told the Business Record last …

Potential presidential candidate Mitt Romney will kick-off the 2012 Presidential Candidate Series with an event to be held May 27 from noon to 1:00 p.m. at the State Historical Building in downtown Des Moines. The …