We've written before about the strong contingent of law bloggers in Iowa , so it should come as no surprise to see Iowa employment attorney Patrick Smith of Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave having success blogging on employment law and litigation in the Hawkeye State. "It's a great way to provide information to clients and others on a frequent, easy to use, and low cost basis,"...
The state and leaders of its largest employee union announced Monday they have reached a deal that would save hundreds of jobs threatened by spending cuts by having the 20,000 union workers take five unpaid furlough days each.
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley has a 2010 challenger. Here is an announcement from Iowa: Together, I know we can take on the Washington special interests and fight for a voice that gives relief to Main Street, not Wall Street. Help small business grow, instead of shipping jobs overseas. We have the most educated, skilled workforce right here in Iowa, ready to get this economy back on track -- preserving...
Jim Delaney submits: With all of the hot air we’ve seen expended over the last 2+ years, mostly in that non-state wedged between Virginia and Maryland, I for one have wondered if there was a way to harness that energy and possibly end this whole “dependence on foreign” oil problem. Warren Buffett, a man who has demonstrated he knows how to put his money where his mouth is, is complimenting...
A Washington-based group of "nontheists" evidently believes that the residents of Cincinnati's Over the Rhine neighborhood are being "inundated with religious messages at every turn." Accordingly, they've erected a "Godless" billboard to relieve the suffering: The national group has run 10 prior billboard campaigns across the country. In Chicago and New Jersey billboards...
Barack Obama talked Al Sharpton out of endorsing him in Iowa. Madoff's old East 64th Street apartment gets a $1 million dollar price chop. Bill Clinton--or "42" as Politico calls him--met with Senate Democrats to pass that health care bill. Wal-Mart fires early in that cheap book war. Former Deadspin editor turned New York writer Will Leitch declares Bill Simmons "establishment"--but...
Ben Smith points to what he calls an “interesting nugget” in David Plouffe’s new book, The Audacity to Win. Plouffe writes : Barack knew I was attending church services with my wife and son at 5:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve, so when I saw him calling shortly before 5:00, I knew something was up. I excused myself and went into the vestibule. “Sorry to bother you,” Obama said,...
More "Hurry Up And Wait" for marriage equality... The State Senate delayed a highly anticipated vote on same-sex marriage on Tuesday, putting off the issue indefinitely as gay rights supporters continued to lobby for additional votes. Republicans and Democrats said that as of Tuesday afternoon, the measure was still several votes short of the 32 necessary for approval. About five Democrats...
Central Lakes is previewed in the Brainerd Dispatch. Ridgewater is previewed in the West Central Tribune. Riverland has a season preview in the Austin Daily Herald. MN West can score points. From the Worthington Daily Globe. Kirkwood opened defense of it's national title in fine fashion this weekend with a pair of wins in the John Wood Classic in Quincy, IL. Saturday's opener saw the eagles jump to...
Prosecutors and defense attorneys for the former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse offered starkly different portraits of the man accused of defrauding a bank Monday in the closing arguments of his nearly monthlong financial fraud trial.
At any given time, anywhere from 800 to 1,000 Milwaukee County children ages 12 and older are living under the supervision of the state-run Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare in foster homes, group homes or with relatives. A landmark 1998 study showed that Wisconsin teens who move out of foster care often end up homeless, get sent to prison or become the victims of violent crime. A follow-up study of...
Santa Fe, N.M. -- Well, I was in the middle of some Page One news last night. It's not every November that I'm part of a hotel evacuation. In Santa Fe, N.M., of all places. Because smoke from a fireplace in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel got into the air conditioning and heating system, of all things. I can tell you that a fireman dressed in his blazing best pounded hard on the door of our hotel at...
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