The Chronicle's Allison Graham reports this week on tamatoledonews.com and Page 1 of the Toledo City Council was surprised at least at portion of a letter received from Iowa Human Services Director Charles Palmer.He wrote, in part, No movement has been made on specific plans to resolve the ...
Our Founding Fathers had a very different view of our government than most have today. Thomas Jefferson was one of our greatest leaders and thinkers. He defined good government as that "which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their ...
Many Iowan's grew up and were raised in a rural small town setting. We started out in the neighborhood, were supported bythe church setting and later educated by the school system. The eighteen years passed by quickly, frequently interspersed with part time jobs at the local stores, service ...
This year, Iowa's Community Colleges will celebrate 50 years of exceptional dedication in providing high quality educational programs and services accessible to all Iowans. Iowa's Community Colleges have provided a great rate of return on the investment of state funding by training a ...
Candidates running for President, the Congress, and the American people are currently debating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is the largest free-trade agreement under consideration since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The TPP agreement under consideration consists ...
Newsletter for Thursday,February 4, 2016Week 4 of the session is complete. It has been a short week, as we did not convene on Monday so that legislators could participate in their Caucuses, and Tuesday most committee meetings were cancelled due to the snow that morning which prevented many ...
Major General Timothy Orr addressed lawmakers on January 27 in his annual Condition of the Guard.Thousands of Iowa National Guard soldiers and airmen have served in combat and support roles in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 14 years. Today, 40 percent of the Guard's force is combat ...
The state of Iowa is moving quickly to privatize Medicaid. I am deeply concerned for the more than 560,000 Iowans on Medicaid, including 120,000 coping with life-altering disabilities, whose quality of life and future depend upon accessible health care.You can see the numbers: businesses ...
Human trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. It's a crime that's going on here in the heartland, and the fight is under way to combat it.owa law enforcement officers, including Commissioner of Public Safety Roxann ...
Iowans do have the unique opportunity to be first to voice their opinion on whom they believe should be the next President of the United States.We get a chance to see many of the candidates up-close so far, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley for the Democrats and Lindsey Graham ...