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Rod Boshart
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Latest Articles by Rod Boshart
News Apr. 16, 2014 7:39 pm4172d ago
DES MOINES – Top Iowa Department of Administrative Services officials told lawmakers Wednesday a 2011 revamp in managing state construction …
K-12 Education Apr. 16, 2014 10:34 am4173d ago
DES MOINES — Senate Democrats are calling on Gov. Terry Branstad to help keep the rivalries among the Iowa’s three …
Public Officials Apr. 15, 2014 4:06 pm4174d ago
DES MOINES – Expanding openness, transparency and accountability in state government has become the new partisan divide on the split-control …
State Government Apr. 15, 2014 1:19 pm4174d ago
DES MOINES – The Iowa Senate voted Tuesday to reconfirm two members of the Iowa Board of Medicine, a state …
State Government Apr. 14, 2014 10:37 pm4174d ago
DES MOINES – House Democrats on Monday called for expanding the Legislature’s probe into alleged improprieties by the Branstad administration, …
News Apr. 11, 2014 12:35 pm4178d ago
DES MOINES – State Department of Human Services officials Friday said three students remain at large after running from the …
State Government Apr. 11, 2014 10:24 am4178d ago
DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad signed legislation Thursday that will reinstate the state sales tax assessed on heavy machinery …
Apr. 11, 2014 1:00 am4178d ago
DES MOINES – Social hosts who knowingly allow minors to consume alcoholic beverages on their property could face a $200 …
Public Officials Apr. 9, 2014 5:00 pm4180d ago
DES MOINES – Democratic senators Wednesday applauded Gov. Terry Branstad’s termination of an agency director tied to secret employee settlements …
Campaigns & Elections Apr. 9, 2014 5:00 pm4180d ago
DES MOINES – A retiring senator from southwest Iowa who returned to the Capitol Wednesday after an extended absence attending …
State Government Apr. 8, 2014 11:14 pm4180d ago
DES MOINES – Republican senators say they made a good-faith effort to push a bipartisan solution to the state’s transportation …
State Government Apr. 8, 2014 11:14 pm4180d ago
DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad fired Mike Carroll as director of the state Department of Administrative Services on Tuesday …
Health Care and Medicine Apr. 8, 2014 11:12 pm4180d ago
The Iowa Senate on Tuesday accepted a scaled-down effort to raise awareness among schools officials of the potential harmful health …
K-12 Education Apr. 8, 2014 11:12 pm4180d ago
The Iowa Senate voted Monday to approve a $986 million education budget for fiscal 2015 that would cover a tuition …
State Government Apr. 7, 2014 2:45 pm4182d ago
Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday he is standing by a top administrator who told lawmakers no extra “hush money” was …