Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
SIOUX CITY, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE: TRA) announced today record net income available to common shareholders for the 2008 second quarter of $202.2 million ($1.94
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Prominent Iowa Democrats are participating tonight in events in three campaign offices, Sioux City among them, of presumptive presidential candidate Barack Obama. The city stop at Obama’s downtown office will be by Iowa Secretary of State Michael Mauro , while former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack [...]
Market Power (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
No. My hometown, Sioux City, Ia., was hit by a nasty thunderstorm packing 75-100 MPH winds early this morning. Trees and limbs were blown down all over the city. Several thousand people lost power and, last I checked, 4,000 people...
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A beef producer that cranks out 22 million pounds of tallow a week will be turning that waste into another alternative to non-renewable petroleum. This story from the Sioux City (IA) Journal says Beef Products, Inc., better known as BPI, the world’s largest producer of lean boneless beef, has partnered with Natural Innovative Renewable Energy to [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Lots of things happen when a trip of 11 days is taken. The political news has piled up; in the time I’ve been gone, Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama has opened an office in Sioux City (and 14 other Iowa cities) and Republican presumptive presidential nominee John [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I was scanning my morning email when the title to a news article caught my attention. The article in the Sioux City Journal is titled “Culver: Flood recovery won’t force other cutbacks“. Now I am sitting here at my computer thinking, okay then if we need more money for the [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, July 18 -- First Federal Bankshares, Inc., the holding company of Vantus Bank, announced today the resignation of Michael W. Dosland, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Ba...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
SIOUX CITY, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE: TRA) has scheduled the webcast of its second quarter 2008 results conference call at 3:00 p.m. ET on July 24, 2008. During the
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Rob Hubler, candidate for the 5th Congressional District in Iowa, has challenged incumbent Steve King (R - Imbecile) to a series of debates. In his invitation, Rob proposed that he and King debate the issues in Sioux City, Carroll, Spirit Lake, Red Oak, Storm Lake, Council Bluffs, Orange City [...]
StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
SIOUX CITY, Iowa - A tornado hit a park near Sioux City, but only minor damage to some trees is reported.The tornado hit Stone State Park on the northwest side of the city just before 5 p.m. on Sunday.Woodbury County emergency services director Gary Brown says there were no injuries and no homes were damaged.A tornado warning was issued for the area as a series of storms moved from Nebraska into Iowa....
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
A tornado hit a park near Sioux City, but only minor damage to some trees is reported.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
A tornado hit a park near Sioux City, but only minor damage to some trees is reported.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
A tornado warning was issued for the area as a series of storms moved from Nebraska into Iowa. The storms also produced heavy rain, causing some street flooding in Sioux City.
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
The campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain asked retired Colonel Bud Day of Sioux City to rebut comments made this weekend by retired General Wesley Clark, an Obama backer. The Politico's Ben Smith has two posts to read on this topic. First, a bit of the conversation Smith [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
For all of his bluster and posturing what has U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, actually accomplished? The Sioux City Journal researches this question in some detail. In terms of legislation King has been successful with one bill he's sponsored: getting Christmas recognized as being, well, important to Christians. Of [...]
