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Iowa Consumers Pick Up The Tab For Gift To Iowa Utilities
Yuletide greetings to all. What, you ask? Christmas is long since over! Not for Iowa’s investor owned utilities. They are getting an armful of belated holiday gifts from the Iowa General Assembly, and if you pay a gas or power bill, you will eventually be picking up a big tab. The Commerce Committee, on which I…
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Budget Cuts, Medicaid Mess Preventing Real Progress This Year
The opening day ceremonies and speeches are over and the 2018 Iowa General Assembly is well underway. The most pressing issue facing the Legislature this year will be more budget cuts. In her Condition of the State Speech, Gov. Kim Reynolds proposed some $19 million dollars in cuts to Iowa’s universities, prisons and the Department of…
