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Branstad defends education budget decision to crowd of Iowa administrators
Governor Branstad speaks at the School Administrators of Iowa Conference in Des Moines.(photo by Sarah Beckman)In front of more than 300 school administrators from across the state, Governor Bra...
Aug 05, 2015
Torch Morning News you can use 8-5:
More than a quarter of a billion dollars in personal income taxes made it into state coffers last month. A record number of Iowans in the workforce paid 6-point-4 percent more than Iowans paid last Ju...
Aug 05, 2015
AIB selling property
Nearly a fifth of the AIB College of Business campus will be sold prior to the school being taken over by the University of Iowa and the Iowa Board of Regents. The property includes three apartment bu...
Aug 05, 2015
Big pension debt under wrap, says nonprofit analysis
The state is hiding more than one-and-a-half billion dollars in pension debt, according to a non-profit research group. Truth in Accounting says it got its data from Iowa's audited Comprehensive finan...
Aug 05, 2015
Torch Afternoon News 8-4: Environmental groups honored at capitol, DMACC offers drone class, ISU proposes cremation garden
Governor Branstad speaks at the Iowa Environmental Excellence Award ceremony.Several business owners, university groups, and local initiatives were honored yesterday at the governor's Iowa Environment...
Aug 04, 2015
Torch Morning News you can use 8-4:
Wind energy could help Iowa meet new pollution rules established by the EPA. Janet McCabe of the agency says the Clean Power Plan requires states to start cutting back on carbon pollution by 32 percen...
Aug 04, 2015
Polk City votes on bond
Polk City voters decide today in a bond referendum whether to fund an aquatic center, soccer fields and baseball diamonds. Knapp Properties is ready to donate the land in return for the city's commitm...
Aug 04, 2015
Group turns in petition to Governor Branstad over mental health hospitals
Local substance abuse counselors Aubreeanna Dolan (left) and Nicole Haines turn in more than 5,000 signatures, asking Governor Branstad to keep remaining two mental hospitals open.Local leaders in the...
Jul 30, 2015
Chinese billionaire’s wife no longer faces seed theft charges
Trade secret-stealing charges against the wife of a Chinese billionaire's wife have been dismissed in a Des Moines court this week. Mo Yun, her brother and five other Chinese nationals were accused of...
Jul 30, 2015
Torch Afternoon News 7-29: Senator Ernst urges defunding of Planned Parenthood, Rally planned for mental hospitals, IDOT looking at I-235 changes
Senator Joni ErnstSenator Joni Ernst and fellow Senate Republicans are urging members of both parties to support a bill that would defund Planned Parenthood. Ernst said during a press conference on th...
Jul 29, 2015
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