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Daily NewslettersDelegates to an AFSCME Council 61 convention this weekend selected Rick Eilander, a longtime union representative, to succeed Danny Homan as president of Iowa’s largest public employee union.
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Delegates to an AFSCME Council 61 convention this weekend selected Rick Eilander, a longtime union representative, to succeed Danny Homan as president of Iowa’s largest public employee union.
A state board meant to help oversee Iowa’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has not met since May because it does not have enough members.
The Iowa Department of Corrections fired Amanda Dodson, a registered nurse at the maximum-security Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, after an investigation found 77 inmates received shots containing up to six times the recommended dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
Some communities -- including cities in Iowa -- have stopped adding fluoride to drinking water, possibly based on misinformation. A new Iowa law that went into effect July 1 requires water system operators to give residents at least a 90-day notice before they stop adding flouride to drinking water.
The 33,260 new business entities in the 2021 fiscal year broke the previous record of 24,720 new business entities in the 2019 fiscal year, according to the Office of the Secretary of State.
Agreements released Monday show Iowa is donating the use of state troopers and their equipment at “no cost to Texas” to fight crime along the U.S. border with Mexico, but a spokesman for Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said there still is a chance Texas could later reimburse some costs.
Still, tens of thousands of Iowans have not returned to work since the state began hemorrhaging employees at the onset of the pandemic last year.
Other laws taking effect Thursday cover child care, protests, diversity training, crimes
The Iowa Board of Corrections has named new wardens for prisons in Fort Madison, Newton and Mount Pleasant.
In 2018, Iowa lawmakers passed a bill that critics at the time warned would “eviscerate” energy saving programs in the state.
Chad Ingels, a northeast Iowa farmer and Republican state representative, said he was angered by a March 26 opinion piece on the Civil Eats website written by Chris Jones, an IIHR research engineer, about race and water quality.
State Auditor Rob Sand visited Cedar Rapids as part of his tour of all 100 county seats.
It asserts Google maintains a monopoly in the market for distributing apps for the Android operating system, which it owns and develops and is used by most of the world's smartphones.
Iowa expects to receive an estimated $25 million for abatement of the opioid epidemic if the deal is approved.
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