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“Iowa has a responsibility for public health and safety that it can’t delegate to EPA under these circumstances. Iowa must act,” said Carrie Le Seur, president of Plains Justice.

A bill to expand Medicaid family planning services in Iowa continues to chug forward in the Iowa legislature, and has garnered at least limited bipartisan support in the wake of a positive economic impact study.

The director of the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and author Lan Samantha Chang was asked to provide a perspective on the economy for The New York Times — and it isn’t a happy tale.
Chang gives national readers a cold a snowy view of local residents gathered outside the Johnson County [...]

After nearly a year of publicly expressing confidence in their coal ash disposal methods, the state’s three largest public universities will begin testing groundwater at their shared dump site this week.

Stalled negotiations between a local television station and a cable provider shouldn’t leave thousands of Iowans unable to watch the University of Iowa football team compete in the Orange Bowl, according to U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley.
Braley, a Democrat who represents Iowa’s 1st District, has sent a letter to Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications [...]

While most Americans continue to believe the economy is in rough shape, Democrats are far more likely than Republicans or independents to believe things will improve significantly in 2010, according University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll results released Tuesday.
Seventy percent of Democrats believe the economy will be good or very good in a year, compared to [...]

This year marks the 125th anniversary of a partnership between the University of Iowa Libraries and the Government Printing Office that has provided Iowans with access to a multitude of federal government information.

Readers of British newspaper The Observer were given a glimpse this weekend into Sarah Palin’s massive book tour, the increasingly contentious state of American political discourse and Iowa’s upcoming role in shaping the future Republican Party. At least two Iowans, each known for different world views, contributed to the report by Paul Harris.

Iowa’s rural private drinking water wells “have several contaminant problems, some long-standing and some emerging,” according to the results of a two-year study released last week.

Reversing an earlier decision, Iowa’s three public universities will begin a groundwater-monitoring program at a quarry in Waterloo that they use to dump coal ash.