tamatoledonews.com - IOWA FALLS (SPECIAL) If you are looking to purchase a new home this spring you may be surprised to learn that the only no-down-payment programs still available are offered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). "Last year USDA Rural Development provided Iowans ...
tamatoledonews.com - DES MOINES (SPECIAL) - Governor Chet Culver has announced that the Iowa Transportation Commission approved programming up to $1 million in support of the Chicago to Omaha planning study for passenger rail in Iowa. The funds will be used to provide the required state match ...
TOLEDO CHRONICLE - CEDAR RAPIDS (SPECIAL) Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporationwill file today a proposal with the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) to increase its Iowa retail electric rates. IPL’s request seeks to increase annual revenues by ...
tamatoledonews.com - DES MOINES (SPECIAL) - For the first time, the Iowa Department of Education is using a formula adopted by the National Governors Association (NGA) to determine the state’s high school graduation rate. The formula, which sets a new baseline for comparing future graduation ...
Got fear? There’s a phobia for that We have much to fear. War. Disease. Death. Peanut butter on the roof of our mouth. Or, to put it another way: traumatophobia, panthophobia, thantophobia and arachibutyrophobia. It seems there’s a phobia for everything – and everyone, even the poor ...
JOHNSTON (SPECIAL) - - In keeping with the network's long tradition of telling Iowa's stories, this March Iowa Public Television will present a new documentary about rural life in Iowa in the 1950s. Iowa's Radio Homemakers: Up a Country Lane showcases radio hosts who served as "neighbors on the ...
DES MOINES(readMedia)- According to State Treasurer Michael L. Fitzgerald, Iowans who are yearning to see something green after the long winter do not have to wait until St. Patrick's Day or for spring weather to roll around. A visit to the Great Iowa Treasure Hunt website at ...
tamatoledonews.com - UTICA, New York - More than twice as many U.S. adults (58%) say that debt owed to China is a more serious threat to the long-term security and well-being of the U.S than is terrorism from radical Islamic terrorists (27%). Interestingly there was little variation by party ...
DES MOINES (SPECIAL) - A Marshalltown woman stopped to pick up two of her favorite scratch tickets and ended up winning the top prize of $50,000! Sandra Potter said she was in disbelief when her second “Double Payday” ticket revealed the top prize. “I was just shaking. I called Christy ...
MARSHALLTOWN (SPECIAL) - The excitement is building and the impetus is Pip Gordon, Director of the Orpheum Theater Center. She came on board in late August and has been on the run ever since. She talks as fast as she runs and is the ultimate multi-tasker as she moves the project toward a grand ...