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Nationwide wins property tax appeal against Polk County, could receive $875,000 refund

Des Moines Register: Polk County may have to pay Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. about $875,000. In an order issued Wednesday, the Iowa Court of Appeals ruled that the county’s board of assessors overvalued the insurance company’s …

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Aides can keep substitute teaching after Iowa lawmakers approve an emergency rule

Des Moines Register: Instructional aides may continue to substitute teach in multiple classrooms once Iowa’s emergency pandemic proclamation expires this week after lawmakers met today to approve an emergency rules change. Iowa public schools were worried …

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COVID-19 testing company ran unlicensed centers in Iowa

Des Moines Register: An Illinois-based company accused of mishandling hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 tests conducted around the country, as well as providing inaccurate or fraudulent negative results, operated three unlicensed testing sites in Iowa. The …

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Mason named EVP, general counsel of Freddie Mac

The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., better known as Freddie Mac, announced it has appointed Heidi Mason as executive vice president and general counsel. Mason, a Greater Des Moines resident and Iowa State University alumna, brings 25 …

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Bipartisan plan to protect mobile home park residents clears House panel

Radio Iowa: Iowa Lawmakers working for the past few years on legislation to protect mobile home residents from being priced off the properties have reached a bipartisan compromise. Republican Rep. Brian Lohse of Bondurant said the …

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Iowa ordered to pay $2 million to union for uncollected union dues, unpaid overtime

Des Moines Register: A judge has ordered the state to pay about $2 million for failing to uphold a labor contract that a union representing state workers rushed through just before Republican lawmakers changed Iowa’s labor …

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State looking at selling off Honey Creek Resort

Radio Iowa: The Iowa DNR is going to seek an appraisal and consider the sale of the Honey Creek Resort near Moravia. The contract with the management group that runs the state-owned resort is set to …

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Iowa’s new anti-vaccine-mandate bill clears its first legislative test in hourslong hearing

Des Moines Register: Opponents of vaccination mandates crowded into a Capitol meeting room Thursday for several hours to support a bill that would widely ban vaccination and mask mandates at businesses, governmental entities and schools. The …

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Tax reform bills advance in the Legislature

The Iowa House Ways and Means Committee has approved the House GOP tax reform plan, setting the stage for the bill to go to the House floor for debate. The committee approved House Study Bill 626 late …

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Legislative Forecast: Workforce, labor shortage at top of agenda for business, nonprofit leaders

Tax reform, placemaking, broadband and child care are among the issues that are expected to take center stage during the 2022

legislative session.

 

All are cited as areas that would, if progress can be …