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IASB Board Votes to Terminate Executive Director

DES MOINES (SPECIAL) - The Iowa Association of School Boards' Board of Directors voted unanimously Thursday to terminate the employment of executive director Maxine Kilcrease. The board had previously placed Kilcrease on administrative leave as of March 11, 2010, in the midst of several ...

Region 6 Agenda for March 29

The Region 6 Board of Directors will be holding a meeting on Monday, March 29, 2010 at noon at the Iowa Valley Community College Orpheum Theatre at the 200 block of East Main Street in Marshalltown. Please go to the east door facing 3rd Avenue/Hwy 14. MEETING AGENDA I. APPROVE AGENDA. ...

IVCCD Board approves FY 2011 Budget

FROM: Gloria D. Stewart Supervisor, Media Relations Iowa Valley Community College District MARSHALLTOWN – Dan Gillen, Iowa Valley Community College District Chief Financial Officer, presented the background information for the FY 2011 Budget during the Public Hearing March 1. He explained ...

Regional Flood Risk Management Team prepares for possible spring flooding

CEDAR RAPIDS (SPECIAL) - The nation’s first-ever Regional Flood Risk Management Team (RFRMT) will meet in Cedar Rapids, April 8, to discuss the unusually high spring river levels resulting from one of the wettest falls and winters in the Upper Mississippi River basin’s ...

Culver asks Alliant to hold up on rate hike

tamatoledonews.com-DES MOINES (SPECIAL) - This week, Iowa Governor Chet Culver wrote to Interstate Power and Light (IPL) president Thomas Aller requesting that the utility delay a planned electrical rate increase until its customers are allowed input at a public hearing. In his letter, Culver ...

Harrahs: Pay Iowa $7 million a year for no dog races

tamatoledonews.com DES MOINES (SPECIAL) Harrah's Council Bluffs announced Wednesday at a news conference in the state's capital that it is willing to pay $7 million a year in licensing fees to the State of Iowa in lieu of subsidizing greyhound purses. This licensing-fee proposal is ...

Census consensus: 87% of Americans plan to complete the Census

tamatoledo news.com[ UTICA, New York (SPECIAL) - As Americans receive their Census forms in the mail this week, results of a new Zogby Interactive poll suggest that a large majority of American adults will complete the census. However, nearly half express doubt about either data ...

Harrah’s to propose ending greyhound racing in Iowa

tamatoledonews.com (SPECIAL) Dan Real, assistant general manager and vice president of operations at Harrah's Council Bluffs and Horseshoe Council Bluffs, will announce a new proposal to end greyhound racing in Iowa while simultaneously increasing funds available to Iowans. A press conferecne ...

More CRP acres for Iowa to benefit quail and other upland birds

tamatoledonews.com - DES MOINES – Iowa producers can enroll up to 10,500 additional acres of cropland into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to benefit upland game birds and other small birds. “The program is designed to provide much needed habitat and brood rearing areas for quail, ...

March is Flood Awareness Month

tamatoledonews.com DES MOINES (SPECIAL) — Several state agencies have kicked off a month-long public information campaign designating March as Flood Awareness Month. Flood awareness is particularly important since Iowa is still recovering from the floods and storms of 2008. The 2008 ...