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Gov. Terry Branstad today vetoed House File 642 – a one-year transportation spending plan – and item-vetoed portions of Senate File 512 – an approach to meet the state’s unpaid obligations for indigent defense costs. …
The American Mock Trial Association’s 27th Annual College Mock Trial National Championships will take place in Des Moines from Friday through Sunday.
The event consists of the best 48 teams from more than 600 that …
The Rebuild Iowa Office (RIO) publicly released its April 2011 quarterly report yesterday.
The report highlights the state’s continuing efforts to recover from the 2008 floods, and says that in the last three months, total …
The city of Des Moines is prepared to give Alliance Technologies Inc. a $145,500 forgivable loan to keep the company and its 100 employees downtown.
A staff memo to the City Council says Alliance plans …
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted new rules that will require wireless service providers such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless to negotiate wireless data roaming deals with competitors. The FCC voted along party …
As Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress seek agreement on a spending measure for the rest of the 2011 fiscal year, President Barack Obama’s administration has warned of economic disruption and even a short shutdown, …
Bowing to pressure from business groups worried about an avalanche of paperwork, the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to rescind the Form 1099 tax reporting requirement included in last year’s health-care overhaul, Reuters reported. With …
Former Iowa Supreme Court Justice Michael Streit has joined the law firm of Ahlers & Cooney P.C. as of counsel in its litigation, dispute resolution and investigations practice area, the firm announced yesterday.
Streit was …
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a plan today to overhaul the federal budget and cut the deficit, Bloomberg reported.
The proposal would cut the deficit next year to $995 billion, down from …
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told lawmakers that failure to raise the federal government’s debt limit would bring “severe hardship” for Americans as the government would be forced to suspend services such as Social Security payments, …
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