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Health insurance may be scrapped from public collective bargaining

Des Moines Register: State officials want to remove health insurance benefits from new union contracts with state and local government workers, eliminating those items from Iowa’s collective bargaining law for public employees. The concept being explored …

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Iowa City getting Iowa’s first cohousing site

Corridor Business Journal: A cohousing development southwest of downtown Iowa City will provide a unique option for aspiring homeowners who value convenience over autonomy when the project opens next year. Prairie View is an eight-acre cohousing …

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Three Iowa pipeline protesters wage hunger strike

Des Moines Register: Three opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline began a hunger strike in a last-ditch effort to stop the controversial oil pipeline, which is nearing completion in Iowa. The group of pipeline opponents began …

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Appeals court rejects lawsuit over Iowa egg sales in California

Radio Iowa: A federal appeals court has rejected the lawsuit Gov. Terry Branstad and officials from five other states filed to block a California law that Branstad argued discriminates against Iowa egg producers. In 2008, California …

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Grassley remains concerned over ChemChina-Syngenta deal

Reuters: U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said he is concerned that state-owned ChemChina, which is buying Swiss crop protection and seed group Syngenta for $43 billion, could use U.S. sovereign immunity laws to shield itself …

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House Republicans re-elect leaders but wait to reveal agenda

Iowa Public Radio: Republicans in the Iowa House have voted to reinstall the leaders who oversaw last week’s GOP success at the ballot box. Republicans now enjoy at a 59 seat majority in the House after …

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Environmentalists fear meatpacking plants will spur hog confinements

Des Moines Register: Members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement asked the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission Tuesday to place a moratorium on allowing new or expanded hog confinements in the state. It’s an issue that the …

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Osage’s Fox River Mills sold to Dallas firm

Mason City Globe Gazette: A private equity firm from Dallas has purchased Fox River Mills Inc. in Osage, the company announced to employees Tuesday. Fox River Mills was founded in 1900 and manufactures knitted socks and …

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C.R. mayor: State should raise wage before telling counties they can’t

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett, a potential 2018 candidate for governor, said Monday that if lawmakers want to stop local governments from raising their minimum wage levels they need to boost the state’s …

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University of Iowa names Jim Leach as interim art museum director

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach was named today as the interim director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Leach, a Republican who served in Congress for three decades, currently is a …