Government Policy and Law

Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds announced they will continue their series of town hall meetings as part of the “Jobs for Iowa” tour next week.

Branstad and Reynolds will visit Pella, Ottumwa …

Real estate developer Bob Knapp will plead guilty to federal charges stemming from asbestos removal at the Equitable Building, 604 Locust St., according to a document filed today by his attorney, William Kutmus.

Knapp was …

Rahm Emanuel, a top adviser to two U.S. presidents who returned to Chicago just months ago, swept into the mayor’s office Tuesday, inheriting a city reeling from recession and promising to reshape City Hall, the …

Peter Yu, the Kern family chair in intellectual property law at Drake University Law School, will teach diplomats and United Nations personnel about the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, focusing on the basic …

President Barack Obama’s budget proposal would be “marginally positive” for U.S. credit ratings in the short term, but there is “almost no chance” Congress will pass the plan as it was presented, Reuters said after …

Iowa State University has been awarded a $20 million federal grant for research focused on keeping Midwest cornfields productive in the face of future climate change. The five-year project will involve 42 scientists from nine …

The Des Moines Park and Recreation Department will have an informational meeting regarding the development of a regional dog park at 6:30 p.m. March 3 in the Jackson Elementary School gymnasium, 3825 Indianola Ave. For …

A bipartisan group of six senators is trying to forge an agreement on how to bring down the U.S. government deficit, according to Bloomberg.

The group is discussing a trigger mechanism where spending cuts and …

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke offered a pointed rebuttal on Friday to foreign critics who say the U.S. central bank’s easy-money policies are causing inflation and asset bubbles abroad, according to The Wall Street Journal.…