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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 [...]

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Christian Fong should stop running a radio advertisement that is “materially false and misleading,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said Monday in a statement.
“We are calling on Fong to take down this ad on his own before any other action is taken,” Kiernan said in a press release without going into [...]

State officials have completed the sale of $601 million in bonds for Gov. Chet Culver’s I-JOBS infrastructure program, with the end result saving Iowa nearly $12 million a year.

The state’s Transportation Commission, an arm of the Department of Transportation, approved $50 million to repair 55 bridges across the state at their monthly meeting Tuesday.
The money is part of Gov. Chet Culver’s I-JOBS infrastructure improvement plan. The $830 million bonding program establishes the Bridge Safety Fund, administered by the Department of Transportation, and allocates [...]

While state governments across the country gear up for another year of devastating budget shortfalls and federal officials weigh whether the state of the economy calls for a second round of stimulus spending, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said he believes the Hawkeye State can weather the storm without additional federal cash.

Gov. Chet Culver says his campaign has set specific fundraising goals and begun holding regular events.

While he remains confident of his re-election chances in a state that hasn’t kicked out an incumbent governor since the 1960s and where Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 100,000 registered voters, he is already taking 2010 very seriously.

In announcing his candidacy for governor, 32-year-old Christian Fong has managed to shake up an already contentious Republican battle to unseat Gov. Chet Culver.
With no formal political experience, Fong’s positions on the issues are still a mystery to most voters. Unlike his GOP competition, who have endured numerous campaigns and been thoroughly vetted, Fong is [...]

The first $45.5 million in grants associated with Gov. Chet Culver’s I-JOBS infrastructure plan were handed out Monday morning by the program’s governing board.
The money, part of the $830 million program designed to help the state rebuild after last year’s tornado and flooding disaster, includes $20 million for projects in Cedar Rapids, one of the [...]

The casual observer couldn’t be faulted for seeing Gov. Chet Culver’s itinerary and thinking the 2010 campaign was already underway, but the governor insisted that his 13-city whistlestop tour across Western Iowa was “about getting things done and setting the politics aside.”

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 [...]