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Iowa sisterhood helps new moms get (and count) their kicks

By Lynda Waddington 7/2/09

An Iowa sisterhood that developed out of shared grief has no interest in increasing its numbers. In fact, the five founding Iowa women are hard at work to decrease their prospective membership pool.

Tiffan Yamen, Kate Safris, Janet Petersen, Jan Caruthers and Kerry Biondi-Morlan discovered one another in 2003 after each had experienced the death of an infant daughter, and their shared experiences sparked a new mission.

Payday lending gets legislative scrutiny

By Chase Martyn 12/2/08

The Des Moines Register reports that several state legislators, including Sen. Jack Hatch and Rep. Janet Petersen, have decided to make payday loan reform a high priority in the coming legislative session.
Back in August, intern (and now Truman and Mitchell scholar) Alec Schierenbeck examined all sides of the payday lending industry in Iowa, painting perhaps [...]

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