In order to cut costs, the Iowa Department of Public Safety will close the Iowa State Patrol District 5 office in the western Iowa city of Cherokee. The six counties currently served by the office will be divided between the District 4 office in Denison and the District 6 [...]
The nation’s struggling dairy farmers received a $290 million boost from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday.
The department is implementing a new program, the Dairy Economic Loss Assistance Program, which was authorized by the 2010 agriculture appropriations bill and will provide loss assistance payments to eligible dairy farmers.
[...] Stalled negotiations between a local television station and a cable provider shouldn’t leave thousands of Iowans unable to watch the University of Iowa football team compete in the Orange Bowl, according to U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley.
Braley, a Democrat who represents Iowa’s 1st District, has sent a letter to Julius [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court has indicated it will not review the conviction and death sentences handed to an Iowa man in connection with multiple 1993 murders.
Forty-six-year-old Dustin Honken of Britt was convicted on Oct. 14, 2004, of five counts of murdering witnesses, one count of soliciting murder of additional witnesses, [...]
The proposed move of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Illinois is something U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley says he can and will fully support.
“Our primary concern has always been ensuring the safety and security of Iowa’s families,” Braley said Wednesday during a conference call with reporters. “That’s why, rather than [...]
The first Agriprocessors supervisor sentenced following a massive immigration raid at the Postville meatpacking plant is requesting the court review his sentence on a belief that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling will mitigate it.
Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, 36, was sentenced to and is serving 36 months in federal [...]
President Barack Obama and key Illinois elected officials will announce Tuesday that roughly 100 detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will soon be housed at a revamped Thomson Correctional Facility just across the Mississippi River from Iowa.
The plan, which was floated as a possibility in late fall, has already drawn [...]
While there are marginal cost savings to the state of Iowa in connection with the possible closing of the Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute (MHI), there are also impacts to the local economy related to the loss of jobs and the added expense for patients and their families.
[...] Despite being pressed by reporters on his weekly conference call to offer more insights into a compromise plan under consideration regarding health care reform, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, would say only that he is one of 10 senators working to broker the deal and that he is [...]
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, used his Twitter account to report that he has discovered evidence from a White House party that reveals a connection between the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and President Barack Obama.
At the WH Christmas Ball Monday night, they served ACORN [...]
An Iowa health care provider is one of 85 community health centers nationwide to receive a significant monetary boost from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Barack Obama announced Wednesday.
“… Funding for construction, technology and a medical home demonstration project won’t just save more money, and create [...]
The Iowa Family Policy Center’s action arm is noting in an e-mail to supporters Wednesday that the blizzard impacting Iowa and other parts of the Midwest is evidence of God’s sense of humor since it coincides with the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Divine Sense [...]
The National Weather Service is predicting a potentially historic snowstorm across the state Tuesday night, leading to a run on snow blowers, gasoline, bread and milk from local retailers as Iowans prepare to hunker down for snowfalls ranging somewhere between six to 15 inches (depending on the meteorologist).
The magnitude [...]
This year marks the 125th anniversary of a partnership between the University of Iowa Libraries and the Government Printing Office that has provided Iowans with access to a multitude of federal government information.
[...] Readers of British newspaper The Observer were given a glimpse this weekend into Sarah Palin’s massive book tour, the increasingly contentious state of American political discourse and Iowa’s upcoming role in shaping the future Republican Party. At least two Iowans, each known for different world views, contributed to the [...]
On the heels of a national study showing the human toll that will be experienced if key provisions within the federal stimulus package are allowed to end, Iowa Workforce Development Deputy Director Joseph Walsh is calling for Congress to renew unemployment and COBRA benefits.
Joseph Walsh
“The unemployment [...]Four Iowa legislators and the state’s Public Safety Commissioner will receive Gold Star awards tomorrow from the Iowa State Sheriffs’ and Deputies’ Association for “excellence in leadership on public safety and law enforcement issues” in Iowa.
Public Safety Commission Gene Meyer is being recognized by the organization for his dedication [...]
Four local U.S. Department of Justice officials were recognized nationally at the annual Executive Office for United States Attorneys Director’s Awards ceremony today for their work in relation to an Internet pharmacy case.
Those honored were First Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Murphy, paralegal specialist Brenda Nietert, Drug Enforcement Administration investigator Sarah [...]
Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City has agreed to pay the federal government $400,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by inflating charges for heart patients’ care.
The settlement resolves allegations that Mercy inflated charges for Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare and Federal Employees Health Benefits Program heart patients [...]
Although it might be difficult to imagine talk of potential health care reform and climate change legislation getting bumped from the nation’s front pages, the foundation for the next partisan cage match is already being built — and Iowa’s own U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is getting in on the ground [...]
The ceremony most likely won’t take place at the fabled Little Brown Church in Nashua, but will have Iowa ties just the same.
Friends of Chelsea Clinton received some happy news via e-mail this holiday weekend. The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [...]
Producers who received letter from bankruptcy court urged to contact Iowa Cattlemen’s Association
Some Iowa cattle producers that sold livestock to the now-defunct Agriprocessors meatpacking operation in Postville have received an unexpected and unwanted piece of holiday mail from the federal bankruptcy court.
Court officials, in an effort to ensure that none [...]
The Iowa Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that three more adult Iowans have died as a result of the H1N1 influenza virus.
The three adults were from Carroll, Des Moines and Webster counties, and all had additional risk factors that increased the chance of complications from the virus.
Since Sept. 1, [...]
Smoldering culture clashes reignite in Postville
Defense attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin continue to assert that their client, despite being recently convicted on 86 fraud-related charges, is not a flight risk and should be granted bail pending sentencing.
Late last week U.S. District Chief Judge Linda R. Reade ruled that Rubashkin, who served [...]
Saying that the past three years have been “an honor” and “a wonderful privilege,” the man tasked with leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa resigned Tuesday so that the office could be led by Stephanie Rose, an office veteran and career prosecutor who was recently [...]
At least two Iowans will be dining at the White House tonight as Pres. Barack Obama celebrates the visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with his administration’s first state dinner.
Iowa Sen. Swati Dandekar, a Democrat from Marion, and her husband, Arvind, a prominent local businessman, traveled to Washington, D.C. [...]
As more American families question their ability to put food on their tables, there are actions that all of us can take to combat food insecurity.
“I believe hunger is one of the great challenges that confronts us today in a tough and difficult economy, and I think we have an [...]
Iowa estimated to recover millions now spent on care for uninsured
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released new state-by-state projections of the impacts of passage or failure of the Democrats’ sweeping health care reform package.
According to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the projections demonstrate that “the health care [...]
Although a local medical examiner may be right that the number of deaths from the H1N1 influenza virus in Iowa is greater than official statistics would indicate, Iowans should not be concerned that this is because the virus has mutated as some rumors have suggested.
Instead, the disparity is caused by [...]
Government asserts that Rubashkin aided flight of Agriprocessors co-worker to Israel
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade has ordered that the Iowa meatpacking manager found guilty on 86 counts of fraud and money laundering will remain behind bars.
Sholom M. Rubashkin, who served as the day-to-day manager at Agriprocessors [...]
Instead of asking conservatives to call home-state senators with pleas for votes against health care reform, the Republican National Committee is asking its membership to contact the offices of two Democratic senators deemed “critically important” to squashing any up-or-down vote on the reform bill.
U.S. Sens. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and [...]
The question of possibly housing Guantanamo Bay detainees at a prison facility on the Iowa-Illinois border isn’t something that deserves consideration, according to U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who said today that he opposes such individuals ever entering the country.
When asked if the detainees would put Iowa residents in danger, Grassley [...]
Those who immediately voiced opposition to a possible plan to move detainees currently housed at a military prison in Guantanamo Bay into a revamped facility on the Illinois-Iowa border should take time to research instead of offering knee-jerk reactions, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley said today.
“I’m not going to engage in [...]
Critics of the massive immigration raid in Postville and the subsequent judicial fast-tracking of detained immigrants on criminal charges have been widely expressing their concerns about Stephanie Rose, the U.S. Attorney nominee for the Northern District of Iowa who took part in the legal proceedings. While U.S. Sen. [...]
U.S. Rep. Tom Latham has pledged to introduce legislation that would prevent the Obama administration from further considering a prison just across the Mississippi River from Clinton as a possible future home for detainees currently housed at a military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
“I have heard from so many Iowans over [...]
The vast majority of Democratic opposition to the final health reform bill in the U.S. House came from members whose districts are more rural than the nation as a whole.
“Of the 39 Democrats who voted against the bill, 33 represent districts with higher-than-average rural populations,” report Julie Ardery and [...]
More than 100 employees within the Iowa Judicial Branch will soon be without employment, and an additional 100 currently vacant positions will not be filled, as the department makes deeper cuts in an attempt to reduce its operating expenses for the current fiscal year.
The actions, announced today, also include reducing [...]
Federal stimulus for Medicaid has boosted jobs and incomes in Iowa while meeting the immediate health needs of vulnerable Iowans enduring a recession, researchers with the Iowa Fiscal Partnership reported today.
“Increased Medicaid spending has an economic benefit for the state of Iowa far greater than the federal government’s initial [...]
A 52-year-old Lamoni man has been charged, along with his father and three brothers, in a Missouri case of child abuse involving children as young as 11 that local authorities are calling “horrendous.”
Iowan David A. Mohler, along with his father and brothers in Missouri, allegedly committed numerous crimes against children [...]
U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin bridged the great political divide today to issue similar statements praising and honoring America’s veterans.
Grassley’s official statement:
America’s veterans put their lives on the line to defend freedom, protect national security and secure the safety of loved ones at home.
It’s important on Veterans [...]
A new white paper released by The Iowa Policy Project focuses on the disparities at play when rural residents seek health care insurance.
“[This report] really highlights that the need for health reform that isn’t limited to people who are working outside their home — that it is a big issue [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a congressional leader known for his watchdog approach to federal agencies, believes that an online initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services amounts to state-sponsored propaganda.
“The campaign now on hhs.gov is not purely informational because it expressly has visitors [...]
Four additional Iowa influenza-related H1N1 deaths are being reported today by the Iowa Department of Public Health, and one of the new fatalities is not attributable to risk factors associated with an additional medical condition.
The latest victims are identified as adults in Dubuque, Polk, Mills and Monona counties. To [...]
A 54-year-old physician from Belle Plain, who allegedly engaged in a pattern of sexual misconduct, has entered into a formal agreement with the Iowa Board of Medicine not to treat patients.
Robert A. Bischoff, was charged in September with sexual misconduct, unprofessional conduct and disruptive behavior in the practice of [...]
Two Iowa U.S. attorney’s offices are one step closer to being under new leadership.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, of which Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley is a member with seniority, agreed today by unanimous consent to pass the nominations of Stephanie Rose and Nick Klinefeldt on to [...]
According to research completed by sociologists at the University of North Carolina and Northwestern University, even when politically misleading comments are made by public officials — like U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s infamous “pulling the plug on grandma” myth — some people choose to believe the mistruths [...]
Blogger Mike Stark, who has been asking congressional leaders who oppose health care reform on camera about the specific demographics of their own districts, caught up with U.S. Rep. Steve King, the Republican who represents Iowa’s 5th Congressional District.
When asked if how many people residing in his district [...]
Officials with the Iowa Department of Public Health are reporting the first death of a child in the state in association with the H1N1 virus. The victim, a resident of eastern Iowa who died during October, had factors that increased the risk of complications from the flu.
“Surveillance is showing [...]
Two central Iowa men, both members of the Libertarian Party, have filed papers to form an exploratory committee for Iowa’s 2010 gubernatorial race. And, unlike other candidates, the two readily admit their goal is not necessarily to win residence at Terrace Hill.
Eric Cooper, 43, of Ames, and Nick Weltha, [...]
A Marion man who previously campaigned for U.S. Senate will officially throw his hat into Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District race this Thursday and kick off his campaign with a three-city tour.
Christopher Reed, who narrowly won a three-way Republican primary to challenge U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin in [...]
A United Kingdom news organization has aired footage of an experiment that will seem familiar to many Iowans who followed the anti-racism work of educator Jane Elliott.
The program, which erroneously indicates that Elliott is from Ohio, recreates a controversial exercise that the school teacher used 40 years ago [...]
An international team of scientists, funded with $10 million in grant money from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and supported by at least two Iowa entities, has completed the first draft of the genome of a domesticated pig — a scientific advance that holds promise for both [...]
A slaughtering company was ordered to immediately suspend operations today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Vermont Department of Agriculture following the results of an undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States that appears to have documented animal abuse that federal inspectors did not correct.
Dr. [...]
While once again renewing his call that a Congressional health care reform will bill with a public option will be passed and on Pres. Barack Obama’s desk by Christmas, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin suggested that there are several reasons why speculation that Connecticut’s independent senator would block a bill with [...]
Two of the three individuals who are said to be vying for the Republican nomination in the special election for Iowa House District 33 registered as Republicans just this week, records show.
The three individuals considered as possible candidates for the Republicans in Iowa House District 33 are John King, Kenneth [...]
After some controversy over the rules, a nominating convention will be held tonight by Democratic precinct members in Iowa House District 33 to elect a candidate for the special election set for Nov. 24.
The convention, which was set by Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan following consultation with the Democratic [...]
Chuck Swaggerty and Jason Morgan may not be a typical Iowa family, if there is such a thing, but they feel more satisfied with their lives.
In an interview with Bret Hayworth of the Sioux City Journal, the men, who were plaintiffs in the case before the Iowa Supreme Court [...]
An employee in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa received a national award from the U.S. Department of Justice in recognition of her continued service to the office and exceptional accomplishments in the wake of the June 2008 floods.
Misti Kloubec
Misti Kloubec, a [...]
A Clinton County District Court judge gave final approval Tuesday for a deal that resolves a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and ends with the retail giant paying up to $11 million.
The suit, which was started in 2001 by workers Sally Mussman and Ronda Harmon, included nearly 100,000 current [...]
Although the net loss figures presented to U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley by Iowa dairy families last Friday were shocking, the fact that the families wanted to discuss their non-existent revenues with an elected official was expected. The same couldn’t be said, however, for the subsequent discussion about comprehensive immigration reform.
Gov. Chet Culver has set Nov. 24 as the date for a special election to fill the vacancy in Iowa House District 33. The election was made necessary by the resignation of Rep. Dick Taylor (D-Cedar Rapids).
The district includes 11 precincts, primarily in southwestern Cedar Rapids.
Candidates with either [...]
State Rep. Dick Taylor, 78, officially announced Monday that he would resign from House District 33, effective immediately, but the news wasn’t necessarily unexpected. Taylor, a Korean war veteran, cited family health concerns in his official announcement. The Taylor family also continues to grieve for their son, Linn County [...]
President Barack Obama is expected to sign an agriculture appropriations bill this week that contains millions in direct aide to the nation’s dairy farmers.
The 2010 Agriculture Appropriations Act, which passed the U.S. House on Thursday and the Senate on Friday, contains $350 million that will benefit dairy farmers. Of [...]
A Cedar Rapids chiropractor will be spending the next seven years behind bars for using the stolen identities of minors in a scheme to bilk Medicaid.
Douglas P. Dvorak, 46, received the prison term Thursday after an April jury verdict found him guilty of 22 counts of mail fraud, 11 counts [...]
Although Senate Democrats seem to be moving toward a compromise on health care reform that would allow individual states to opt-out of a national public option, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley is adamant that such a provision would defeat the overall purpose of health care reform.
“One of the problems is that [...]
Representatives from three Iowa regional tourism bureaus flew to California to let same-sex couples attending Gay Days at the Disneyland Resort know that they are welcome in the Hawkeye State.
The annual Anaheim event, which is neither sponsored nor discouraged by Disney, hosts roughly 30,000 attendees.
[...] It worked for Lilly Ledbetter and the Fair Pay Act, so why not for victims of discrimination on the basis of age?
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has joined with two other influential committee chairmen to introduce a bill that takes [...]
An Iowa insurance company founded in 1958 has been reprimanded by the U.S. Department of Justice for offering faith-based homeowner and renter insurance policies, but continues to offer similar benefits on the basis of religion through its auto insurance program.
[...] According to a spokeswoman in the advertising department of The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, the newspaper has not run or yet been requested to run any ad copy paid for by “Friends of Sholom Rubashkin.”
Rubashkin, the former day-to-day executive at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, recently had his federal [...]
There is no doubt, according to U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, that Pres. Barack Obama will have a health care reform bill on his desk by Christmas — and that the bill will include a public option.
“Reports of the public option’s death are greatly exaggerated,” Harkin said Thursday morning, noting once [...]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has not confirmed that he will launch a bid for president in 2012, but all signs point to ‘yes.’
His political action committee is officially launching today, and it has hired an Iowa native who was credited with building a winning strategy for George W. Bush [...]
Not only is U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin claiming that he has the votes necessary to pass a health care reform bill with a public option in the U.S. Senate, but that he has a ‘comfortable’ majority to do so.
Harkin, who recently took over as the chairman of the Health, Education, [...]
Of the three big issues before Congress this year — health care, cap-and-trade and banking regulation reform — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said that cap-and-trade will be the most controversial.
“It just seems to me that the push for cap-and-trade has slowed down very dramatically since the [U.S.] House passed it [...]
In an opinion piece dubbed “Iowa Congressman Steve King is heartless and proud of it,” the staff at The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune takes particular offense to U.S. Rep. Steve King’s (R-Kiron)Â latest comment for a series published by The Hill that typically serves as a light-hearted glimpse of the nation’s [...]
More than 75,000 postcards will be delivered to the Iowa offices of U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin today by regional electric co-op leaders who want to express their concern about potential cap-and-trade legislation.
The deliveries coincide with the scheduled U.S. Senate debate on the American Clean Energy and Security [...]
A video featuring Rosa Weiss, daughter of Sholom Rubashkin, is circulating throughout the Jewish community in an effort to raise funds to offset legal fees associated with the case that stemmed from the May 2008 Agriprocessors immigration raid.
A Moving Video of the Daughter of Sholom Rubashkin from Zalman [...]
The recommendations of two Iowa attorneys as the next U.S. Attorneys for Iowa have been formally approved by the White House, and their names have been sent to the U.S. Senate for consideration and possible confirmation.
In March, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) recommended Stephanie Rose to lead the Northern [...]
Green card applications that would have otherwise been denied based solely on the applicant’s HIV status have now been placed on hold, in anticipation of a rule change from U.S. Health and Human Services that will effectively end a ban that has been in existence for more than two decades.
The [...]
On Wednesday the Illinois Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments in a hospital tax dispute that could ultimately impact the way hospitals do business and consumers receive care in Iowa and throughout the nation.
The Illinois case focuses on Provena Covenant Medical Center, a Catholic-run hospital in Champaign County, and its [...]
A U.S. House bill touted as the most sweeping overhaul of federal student loan programs since inclusion of the GI Bill was passed last week with the Iowa delegation splitting on party lines.
HR 3221, also known as the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, would support early childhood education [...]
Chipped wood debris, possibly from flood-damaged Linn County homes, will soon be used to create energy at a Wisconsin biomass facility.
The contract, approved Tuesday by the Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency, states that at least 6,000 tons of chipped wood debris will be sold to Michigan-based DTE [...]
Although some members of the U.S. House have voiced firm opposition to the long-awaited initial health care reform bill presented this week by U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Montana), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) isn’t necessarily among them. The process is not a sprint, he [...]
Congressional negotiations on proposed health care reform have dominated news cycles for months, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that other important committee work has been set aside.
The Ryan White Act, a federal program that provides basic care, treatment, education and support services related to HIV/AIDS, is scheduled to sunset on [...]
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin praised the efforts of Senate Democrats who sought a bipartisan agreement on health care reform, but he also noted that when push comes to shove, Democrats, as the majority party, are obligated to ensure that real reform actually passes.
“Both Senate committees can be proud that their [...]
The Iowa Department of Public Safety is warning that a series of e-mail and text messages distributed this week claiming that an AMBER Alert had been activated in Monroe County were a hoax.
The messages contained either the following information or a closely-worded variant: “AMBER Alert! A 3 year old girl [...]
Industry experts report that Iowa saw a more than 20 percent increase in foreclosure rates this summer, and that the state experienced a significant overall decline in home sales. But it isn’t all bad news.
During the month of July, the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, indicated that 601 Iowa [...]
An independent audit commissioned by the corporate owners of a Spencer hatchery has concluded that some of the practices depicted by an undercover video are not standard operating procedure and are in violation of the company’s animal welfare policy.
A statement attributed to a communications firm that specializes in “reputation [...]
A 19-year-old who failed classes at the University of Iowa is now the first patient at a new five-acre rehabilitation center for those who suffer from Internet addiction.
Ben Alexander, 18, said that he failed his courses in Iowa City because he spent all of his time playing “World of [...]
A Sioux City bank founded in 1923 was one of five banks closed by regulators on Friday evening. The closure marks the first bank failure in Iowa in nearly a decade.
Vantus Bank, which had $458 million in assets and $368 million in deposits, was closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance [...]
There are four mental health institutions that serve Iowa through the state Department of Human Services, all built during the late 1800s when most advocates believed in a “moral treatment” philosophy of care made famous by Philadelphia psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride. Each of the facilities — Mount Pleasant, Independence, Clarinda [...]
A Jewish social justice organization is encouraging members to send a message to the new owners of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville in conjunction with the holiday Rosh Hashanah.
Jewish Community Action, an organization that has remained involved in Postville in the wake of the May 2008 immigration raid at the [...]
More help is on the way for Iowa’s cash-strapped pork producers.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced Thursday that his agency intends to purchase an additional $30 million in pork products this fiscal year for federal food and nutrition assistance programs.
“These purchases will assist pork producers who are currently struggling [...]
David Yepsen, former chief political columnist for the Des Moines Register, told Kaiser Health News that U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is caught between competing interests with regards to health care reform.
Grassley’s problem, said Yepsen, is that he’s caught “between different forces crushing in on him,” with Senate GOP leaders [...]
Citing media accounts that prohibit seating of an impartial jury, U.S. District Court Judge Linda R. Reade ruled Tuesday that a trial for four former Agriprocessors supervisors will be moved to Sioux Falls, S.D.
The trial, currently scheduled for Oct. 10, involves immigration- and fraud-related charges against Sholom Rubashkin, son of [...]
An animal advocacy organization has made an undercover video shot earlier this year at an Iowa hatchery public in hopes of raising awareness to what it deems as “the shocking reality” of animal cruelty at large hatcheries.
The video, shot by an hidden investigator, was made public today [...]
A quarantine template created by the Iowa Department of Public Health and accessible through the Centers for Disease Control Web site should not be of great concern, according to a press release from health department officials.
“IDPH wants to make it clear that Iowa has not issued any isolation and [...]
U.S. District Court Judge Linda R. Reade agreed that four former supervisors facing charges stemming from a massive immigration raid at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plan in Postville needed more time to prepare their defense and ordered Monday that the trail be postponed until Oct. 13.
In [...]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack wants to put together a diverse group of dairy industry representatives to review and make recommendations regarding volatile milk prices and farm profitability.
Those nominated and accepted to participate in the group will form a newly established Dairy Industry Advisory Committee, sponsored by the [...]
Only two years ago, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley was taking heat from the Republican congressional caucus and the Bush White House for supporting legislation that would expand a program that provides health care coverage for children across the nation. Much to his own political party’s and congressional leadership’s chagrin, Grassley [...]
