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The website designed to allow citizens to track how and where funds are being allocated as part of the $830 million I-JOBS infrastructure plan now includes an interactive tool to improve transparency, Gov. Chet Culver announced Thursday.
In June, Culver’s deputy chief of staff, Phil Roeder, told The Iowa Independent that 100 percent transparency was one [...]

The federal government is expected to shower Iowa with more than $2.5 billion as part of the economic recovery program passed by Congress this year, and every dollar must be accounted for. Much of that task rests on the shoulders of Jon Murphy, director of the Iowa Office of State-Federal Relations.

The Web site state officials say will allow Iowans to track how every penny of Gov. Chet Culver’s $830 million bonding plan is spent has been launched.
The site, ijobsiowa.gov, will be the official home of information about the I-JOBS infrastructure improvement program. In an interview with the Iowa Independent earlier this month, Phil Roeder, Culver’s [...]

The long and difficult process of amending Iowa’s constitution coupled with changing attitudes over time makes it unlikely that Friday morning’s state Supreme Court decision will be overturned.

Gov. Chet Culver told the Associated Press yesterday that he may still call a special session of the legislature to deal with the damage left behind in the wake if this year’s record flooding.
But a group of legislators told The Des Moines Register that a special session is doubtful, with state Sen. Bill Dotzler, a [...]

It’s not too late to sign up to learn about lobbying and state government during an event geared for minorities and women.

Latino business leaders had a message to deliver in person at the Statehouse Tuesday.

As a tight end for Virginia Tech University in the mid-1980s Gov. Chet Culver had what he called a “fighting weight” of 220 pounds.

Now, at age 42, as the Democratic governor travels the state, imploring grade school students and senior citizens and everyone in between to lose some fat, Culver admits that his own frame [...]