A huge turnout for the first Des Moines Wizard World Comic Con is prompting promoters to bring the event back next May. Thousands of fans lined up to see their favorite comic book and sci-fi stars, including William Shatner, Dean Cain, Alex Kingston, Brandon Routh and Lou Ferrigno.
Corn growers in Iowa are being urged to look into the export markets. Seth Meyer of USDA says the U-S is expected to export 1-point-9 billion bushels of corn this year.
Iowa Republicans plan to push for cost containment measures for the education budget in the next legislative session…that’s what House Speaker Kraig Paulsen told the Iowa Press panel yesterday on Iowa Public Television. The governor wanted a 2-year budget and has yet to sign the one approved by the General Assembly.
Many Iowa developers are pushing the state to allow more flexibility with topsoil, tossing out a 4-inch rule that was put in place three years ago to help prevent runoff. Iowa’s Environmental Protection Commission is expected to decide tomorrow whether to change the rule. The director of stormwater services for the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities says she expects cities will set up their own 4-inch rules if the state won’t.
Several Democratic presidential candidates paid a visit to Iowa over the weekend…Martin O’Malley was in Marshalltown, Hillary Clinton was in Des Moines and Sioux City, and Bernie Sanders was in Des Moines.
The Iowa Policy Project says wage theft in the state amounts to stealing a year of earnings from nearly 40-thousand minimum wage workers. Their study says fear of retaliation and ignorance of the law means vast numbers of workers never report their losses.
You have the right to be drunk on your own front porch…that’s the ruling from the state supreme court. The case involved a Waterloo woman who had a fight with her boyfriend on her front porch, and was nabbed by police for having blood alcohol content way over the legal limit. The woman claimed her front porch is not a public area, and the court agreed.
Nitefall on the River presents Los Lonely Boys this week. The blues-rock-TexMex band performs at 7 Wednesday night at Riverfront Amphitheater.
