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Rod Boshart
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Latest Articles by Rod Boshart
News Oct. 14, 2019 10:00 am2164d ago
DES MOINES – Efforts to bring much-needed broadband internet to rural Iowa have been anything but high speed. While the …
Government & Politics Oct. 10, 2019 12:19 am2168d ago
WAUKEE – Vice President Mike Pence came to farm country Wednesday to press U.S. House Democrats to ratify a trade …
Government & Politics Oct. 7, 2019 11:42 pm2170d ago
DES MOINES – Newly named Iowa House Speaker-select Pat Grassley spent his first day on the job Monday talking up …
Government & Politics Oct. 7, 2019 9:30 am2171d ago
DES MOINES – Harvest usually is an upbeat time for Iowa farmers like Lance Lillibridge of Vinton, but this fall …
Aug. 17, 2021 3:07 pm1491d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Iowa biofuels industry officials Friday hailed as positive a Trump administration commitment to restore renewable fuel production …
Aug. 17, 2021 12:16 pm1491d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – With four months left until Iowa’s first-in-the-nation Feb. 3 presidential caucuses, the state’s political party chairs said …
Aug. 18, 2021 9:17 am1490d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Iowa’s Medicaid system made a fairly smooth transition to a new managed care organization in part because …
Oct. 3, 2019 6:35 pm2175d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Gov. Kim Reynolds said Thursday she is assessing whether the state has the financial capacity to consider …
Government & Politics Sep. 24, 2019 6:36 pm2184d ago
DES MOINES – Iowa consistently ranks high nationally in volunteerism, and Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday she wants state government …
Iowa Football Sep. 24, 2019 3:41 pm2184d ago
DES MOINES – Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday ending the Iowa-Iowa State football rivalry is not an option and she …
Education Sep. 24, 2019 3:27 pm2184d ago
DES MOINES – From the time she was a little girl growing up in Cleveland, Beth Skinner says she knew …
Government & Politics Sep. 19, 2019 9:06 pm2189d ago
DES MOINES – Top Iowa Democrats approved a plan Thursday to include ‘satellite caucuses” that would allow Iowans to participate …
Government & Politics Sep. 18, 2019 10:40 pm2189d ago
DES MOINES – Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday countered California’s announced ban on taxpayer-funded trips to Iowa by touting the …
Government & Politics Sep. 16, 2019 3:28 pm2192d ago
DES MOINES – State employees who enroll in the government’s 2020 health insurance plan will pay slightly higher monthly premiums …
Government & Politics Sep. 16, 2019 9:00 am2192d ago
DES MOINES – More Iowa offenders being returned to prison for work release or parole violations pushed the inmate population …