‘Economy’

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley has reiterated his call for Congress to abandon climate change legislation in order to wait for an international treaty.

While once again renewing his call that a Congressional health care reform will bill with a public option will be passed and on Pres. Barack Obama’s desk by Christmas, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin suggested that there are several reasons why speculation that Connecticut’s independent senator would block a bill with a public option won’t come [...]

Plans to institute massive layoffs in two state departments will go forward unless union leadership agrees to reopen their contracts in order to find savings, Gov. Chet Culver said Wednesday.

Gov. Chet Culver has scheduled a press conference at 3 p.m. Wednesday to announce the plans for cutting $565 million from the state’s budget.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius teamed with U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) on Tuesday to pitch health care reform as one of the few remaining ways to level the playing field for many Americans who reside in rural areas.

The announcement Monday that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to go forward with health-care reform legislation that includes a public option is bad news for everyday Americans, Sen. Chuck Grassley said Tuesday.

For a man with decades of experience in Iowa government, former Gov. Terry Branstad offered surprisingly few specific ideas for cutting the state’s budget in a Des Moines Register story today.

The steady decline in rural health care access can take a toll on patients’ health, but it can also impact the economic well-being of rural communities.

The Des Moines Register lost nearly 18,000 daily subscribers and nearly 15,000 Sunday subscribers during the six-month period ending in September, according to preliminary figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Des Moines civil rights attorney Roxanne Conlin has confirmed she will “more likely than not” enter the Democratic primary in hopes of unseating Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley.
Conlin told Des Moines Register reporter Tom Beaumont that it was Grassley’s inflammatory rhetoric this summer during the debate over health care reform that first pushed her towards [...]