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By Dan Piller, The Des Moines Register
Alliant Energy said "no" on Thursday to Gov. Chet Culver's request to hold off on a 10 percent rate increase for its 525,000 Iowa customers.
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By Thomas Beaumont, The Des Moines Register
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller urged state and federal officials Thursday to find up to $1 million to keep afloat a program aimed at preventing home foreclosures.
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ISU, UNI athletics face end to use of tax money
By Staci Hupp, The Des Moines Register
Iowa State University and University of Northern Iowa officials would have until September to draw up plans to wean their athletic departments off taxpayer money under a proposal state regents will consider next week.
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Manager admits bedbug blunder
By Jeff Eckhoff, The Des Moines Register
The head of the company that manages two bedbug-infested Des Moines apartment buildings for the elderly and disabled acknowledged Thursday that "we screwed up, and we're going to fix it."
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GOP plots strategies to nullify health bill
By Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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State aims to hire debt collector
By Rod Boshart, Sioux City Journal
Iowa lawmakers are looking to hire a debt coordinator to oversee a process of trying to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars owed to the state for unpaid court charges, back taxes or other delinquent payments.
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Compromise on texting ban might be sorted out next week
By Tony Leys, The Des Moines Register
Iowans would be banned from sending text messages while driving, but they could not be pulled over for it unless police also suspected them of breaking another law, under compromise legislation tentatively reached Thursday.
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Iowa's gubernatorial race gets tighter
By James Q. Lynch, Quad-City Times
On the eve of the filing deadline for the primary election, a potential opponent for Gov. Chet Culver decided to bypass the Democratic primary and run as an independent in November.
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Agency for elderly prepaid vendors, audit says
By Clark Kauffman, The Des Moines Register
A publicly funded agency that helps elderly Iowans inappropriately increased its annual budget by prepaying vendors for thousands of dollars' worth of expenses, state auditors allege.
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State tax credits for Pioneer will aid campus expansion
By Donnelle Eller, The Des Moines Register
Pioneer Hi-Bred's $154 million expansion in Johnston will qualify for up to $7.3 million in state tax credits, primarily for research and development at the new facility, economic development leaders said Thursday.
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An alternative to 'alternative' assets
By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal
Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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The empire strikes out
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
 New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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