Iowa has seen the worst of the recession, but employment won’t begin to grow again until next summer, a team of economic advisors told Gov. Chet Culver today.
“If things go to history, and we have a lot of history, we should see better times starting pretty much right now,” said [...]
Currently, the governor said he is required to submit a state budget by the end of January based on projections set by the state Revenue [...]
A review of Iowa’s tax credits has been extended by a week to give departments more time to conduct a comprehensive analysis, Gov. Chet Culver announced today.
Culver, last month, ordered a review of 30 state tax credit incentives in the wake of a criminal probe into Iowa’s film program, a [...]
The departure of Gov. Chet Culver’s campaign manager is a minor blip, the governor told reporters today.
Culver, a Democrat preparing to seek re-election next year, said Andrew Roos’ announcement Tuesday that he was leaving the campaign after less than three months was normal.
“Look, it’s very common, whether public sector or [...]
Despite the reality of the world around him, Governor Chet Culver always seems to find a way to be optimistic when talking about the condition of the state or his campaign. When the state ended the FY 2009 budget year with a $161 million deficit, Culver remained [...]
Gov. Chet Culver's campaign manager said today he has resigned, citing personal reasons for leaving the Democrat's re-election bid after only three months.
Andrew Roos, who was hired in September to manage Culver's re-election campaign, said he had decided to [...]
DES MOINES – The manager of Gov. Chet Culver’s re-election campaign has left the position, saying it is for personal reasons.
Andrew Roos had been in the position since September and said his departure from the campaign is effective immediately.
“The break is totally friendly,” Roos said in an interview. [...]
Troy Price, a spokesman for Gov. Chet Culver, issued a statement today, saying Republicans failed to offer solutions during an online interview with The Des Moines Register.
Josie Albrecht, a spokeswoman for the Iowa House Republicans issued the following response:
“Republicans have laid out a detailed agenda for [...]
Troy Price, a spokesman for Gov. Chet Culver, issued the following statement about statements made today by House Republican Leader Kraig Paulsen and Senate Republican Leader Paul McKinley during an interview with The Des Moines Register.
See the video replay here. More news coverage of the meetings with both Democrats [...]
Gov. Chet Culver’s campaign manager said today he has resigned, citing personal reasons for leaving the Democrat’s re-election bid after only three months.
Andrew Roos, who was hired in September to manage Culver’s re-election campaign, said he had decided to step down before Thanksgiving and that Culver did not ask him [...]
Here’s a schedule for a series of debates between Rep. Christopher Rants, a Republican from Sioux City and Jon Narcisse, a former Des Moines School Board member.
Rants is running for governor and Narcisse, a Democrat, has indicated interest in challenging Gov. Chet Culver.
The debates, each from 6 to 7:30 p.m,. [...]
Former Des Moines school board member Jonathan Narcisse criticized Gov. Chet Culver and the Republicans hoping to unseat him in 2010, but remained coy about whether he will challenge the governor in a Democratic primary.
Jonathan Narcisse
Narcisse was speaking to Dave Price, reporter for Des Moines [...]
Iowa will receive $1.16 million from federal stimulus money for the state to launch an electronic health records system, Gov. Chet Culver announced this afternoon.
The grant is part of a 90-percent federal match that will help the state’s human services and public health departments begin an incentive program for medical [...]
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin addressed the Hy-Vee Hall crowd via video, saying he expected Gov. Chet Culver to win re-election and praising congressional Democrats’ work on health-care reform.
He remained in Washington for a key procedural vote to move a health-care reform bill forward in the Senate. After he spoke, Iowa [...]
Gov. Chet Culver spent the first part of his speech on thank yous and federal-level issues, noting that Congress nears passage of historic health-care reform.
But he soon turned to a list of accomplishments in Iowa: Expanding health care for children, lifting a ban on stem-cell research and helping veterans go [...]
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver took the stage at HyVee Hall to the Rolling Stones’ classic “Start Me Up.”
Here’s the list of tunes played for some of the other speakers as they approached the podium at the state Democratic Party’s Jefferson Jackson Day dinner in Des Moines.
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman, Michael [...]
Michael Kiernan, chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, just introduced the Democrats who lead the Iowa House and Senate, statewide elected officials such as Attorney General Tom Miller, U.S. House members and Gov. Chet Culver.
Most, including Culver, are running for election in 2010. When the introductions culminated with Culver’s welcome [...]
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Gov. Chet Culver ordered a review Thursday of the state’s tax credits in the wake of Iowa’s film fiasco, a dire budget forecast and an explosion in the cost of tax breaks.
The credits are projected this fiscal year to cost the state $489 million in refunds or uncollected taxes, which [...]
Gov. Chet Culver said today that Iowa will go after up to $175 million in federal money for schools, but there are strings attached: Schools in Iowa must change.
“One thing is for certain: Iowa’s school system will not look the same a year from now as it does today,” Culver [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad said Iowa voters’ early preference of him over Gov. Chet Culver is helping his fundraising as the longtime Republican governor begins cranking up his campaign operation.
“It doesn’t hurt,” Branstad said today in his first Des Moines Register interview since forming a campaign organization to seek the [...]
The union representing state troopers and game wardens has reached an agreement with the state aimed at saving 43 jobs, Gov. Chet Culver announced Tuesday.
The State Police Officers Council (SPOC) has agreed that its 640 members will take five furlough days during the remaining 7 months of [...]
Dozens of state troopers or gaming enforcement offices would be kept on the state’s payrolls, according to a tentative agreement with Gov. Chet Culver.
In exchange, about 640 members of the State Police Officers Council would be required to take five unpaid days for the remaining seven months of the fiscal [...]
Earlier today Des Moines Register reporter Jason Clayworth wrote a blog post that has been removed from the Register’s website. My trustworthy staff of researches saved me a copy of what he wrote so I can share it with you.
Here is what Clayworth wrote:
Pictures of a shirtless Chet Culver?
Pictures of [...]
As GOP gubernatorial hopefuls try to draw distinctions from their Republican rivals, the Iowa Democratic Party continues to co-opt their critiques with the hope of weakening potential challengers to incumbent Gov. Chet Culver.
The latest attack was delivered in Dubuque by state Rep. Chris Rants against former Gov. Terry Branstad. Rants [...]
