CEDAR RAPIDS — It’s Wellington Heights’ turn — especially for the children who live there. This old core neighborhood in southeast Cedar Rapids has combated a perception problem for more than 15 years as being a place where bad behavior surfaces and police cars converge, this in a city that nearly always can count...
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CEDAR RAPIDS- Wednesday night the Obama administration will air a two-minute TV commercial claiming a Kansas City Steel Company went bankrupt after Mitt Romney’s company took over.  The ad will run across Iowa…a state many experts say is still undecided.  Iowa only has six electoral votes. It makes up about one percent of all...
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DES MOINES – The Iowa Executive Council has authorized nearly $1.49 million in payments to outside legal counsel to defend Gov. Terry Branstad and state agencies against litigation and to help recoup money owed to Iowans or state government this fiscal year. The cost of legal representation provided by private attorneys with special expertise...
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Sen. Chuck Grassley isn’t alarmed by “what some might call upheavals” in Republican politics in Indiana, Nebraska and Iowa. He sees the recent victories by Tea Party-backed candidates in GOP Senate primaries in Indiana and Nebraska as well as the success of Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul supporters in Iowa in electing a majority...
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UPDATED 10:15 a.m. to better describe the mural IOWA CITY – The City Council Tuesday night gave its OK for a mural to be painted on the side of a five-story tall parking ramp downtown. The mural, by Iowa City artist Eliezer Sotillo, is to depict more than a dozen arms and hands that...
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IOWA CITY – The City Council Tuesday night adopted the final two pieces of a set of three ordinances aimed at limiting the number of new large apartments near downtown and the University of Iowa campus. The council voted 6-0, with Terry Dickens absent, to pass an ordinance preventing the construction of multifamily dwellings...
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CEDAR RAPIDS- State law enforcement has a new law that’ll help them find out whose stealing scrap metal. Copper and aluminum prices continue to rise.  And that makes them attractive to thieves.  But a new law that goes into effect July first regulates a paper trail at the scrap yard.  Now anyone selling scrap...
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The Republican Party of Iowa caught heat from news organizations for reneging on its own plan for releasing certified presidential precinct caucus results by giving them to the Des Moines Register before any other media outlets. One of the party’s critics at a public hearing hosted by the GOP in Des Moines May 15...
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DES MOINES – Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney unleashed a scathing attack on President Obama’s economic policies Tuesday, blaming Obama for creating a “financial crisis of debt and spending” that threatens the future for many Americans. “A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation and every day we fail...
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CHANGE IN LOCATION Mitt Romney will deliver what’s being billed as a major policy address May 15 in Des Moines on the “out-of-control spending and debt” under the Obama administration, according to Iowa U.S. Rep. Steve King. Romney, who is hitting back on a new round of attack ads by President Obama’s re-election campaign,...
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