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By Jason Clayworth, The Des Moines Register
Vastly different estimates were released Wednesday on how Iowa ended its fiscal year this week, but all projections indicate that Gov. Chet Culver will have to use cash reserves to balance the state budget.
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By O. Kay Henderson, Radio Iowa
A 32-year-old from Cedar Rapids is running for governor and, if elected, he'd be Iowa's youngest chief executive.
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Stimulus eases community college troubles
By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system.
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Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes.
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Creighton survey sees positive growth in Iowa economy
By Karla James, Radio Iowa
The latest economic survey of business leaders and supply managers across Iowa and the Midwest region shows improvement. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss compiles the numbers each month and says for the first time since September, we're seeing positive growth.
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Republicans call for special session to deal with budget
By O. Kay Henderson, Radio Iowa
While Iowa's Democratic governor and his top budget advisors say there's no reason to "panic" about state spending, several Republicans are calling for a special legislative session to fix what they characterize as deep holes in the budget.
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Iowa residents join other states with the right to sue
By O. Kay Henderson, Radio Iowa
Iowa is joining the rest of the nation in giving individual citizens the right to sue in consumer fraud cases. The new law took effect yesterday, July 1st, and Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller says it replaces a law that originated in the Middle Ages.
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Iowa prison population drops but trend expected to change
By Pat Curtis, Radio Iowa
The number of inmates in Iowa prisons is dropping, but corrections officials expect that trend to change over the next decade. This week, Iowa's prison population dipped to 8,454 inmates. That's the lowest inmate count since October 2007, when Iowa had a record 8,840 men and women behind bars.
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Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor
More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes.
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