Jim Field speaks with Sue Pitts with Iowa Western’s Small Business Development Center about the Dream Big Grow Here initiative.
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Police in Red Oak arrested a woman Tuesday night for alleged illegal possession of prescription drugs. 33-year-old Becky Jo Hegarty, of Red Oak, was arrested just before 11-p.m. on a charge of unlawful possession of a prescription medication. She was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.
ONAWA, Iowa (AP) – Landowners in Monona County are complaining about a big increase in their property taxes. The Sioux City Journal reports the landowners gathered Tuesday at the county courthouse to discuss what they could do about the tax increase and to question county assessor Tim Peters and county board members. Castana farmer William Brink says his taxes have increased by $9,000 in one year. Officials say the change is because of a new way counties value land based on the ability to produce crops. If soil is more fertile, it’s taxed at a higher rate. The new system also applies to more land, causing increases on property once overlooked. Some counties adjust taxes for property not used for row crops, but Monona County is among 50 counties that doesn’t make adjustments.
DONNA K. GAFFNEY, 57, of Manning, died Mon., Sept. 3rd. A Mass of Christian Burial service for DONNA GAFFNEY will be held 10:30-a.m. Fri., Sept. 7th, at the Sacred Heart Church in Manning. Ohde Funeral Home in Manning has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home, after 3:30-p.m. Thursday (9/6). A Rosary service by the Alter Society will be held at the funeral home beginning at 4-p.m. Thursday, with a Prayer service at 7-p.m.
Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Manning.
DONNA GAFFNEY is survived by:
Her husband – Bob Gaffney, of Manning.
Her mother – Mildred Sporrer, of Manning.
Her sisters and brothers- Patricia Treinan, of Sioux City; Marilyn Tillman, of Sante Fe, NM; Alice Sporrer, of Sioux City; Lynn Sporrer, of Manning; Jennifer Sporrer, of New Hope, Carroll; Larry Sporrer, of New Jersey, & Loran Sporrer, of Manning.
Her mother-in-law: Virginia Gaffney, of Carroll.
GARY “RIP” VAN WINKLE, 77, of Panora, died Mon., Sept. 4th, at home. Funeral services for GARY VAN WINKLE will be held 10:30-a.m. Fri., Sept. 7th, at the Twigg Funeral Home in Panora.
Visitation at the funeral home will be from 4-8pm Thu., Sept. 6th, with the family present from 6-8pm.
Burial will be in the Moffitt Grove Cemetery in rural Guthrie Center.
JOYCE ANNE HOLTHAUS BAIOTTO, 79, of Earlham, died Sun., Sept. 2nd. Funeral services for JOYCE BAIOTTO will be held 1-p.m. Fri., Sept. 7th, at the Valley Evangelical Free Church in West Des Moines. Johnson Family Funeral Home in Earlham has the arrangements.
Visitation will be held at the Earlham Community Center from 4-8pm Thu., Sept. 6th. Online condolences may be left at www.johnsonfamilyfuneralhome.com. Memorials may be directed to the family.
A private family burial will be held.
JOYCE BAIOTTO is survived by:
Her husband – Ernie, of Earlham.
Her sons – Dan (Kathy) of Collinsville, IL; and Ron (Clarice) of Van Meter.
Her sister – Delpha Mae (Myron) Brockmeyer, of Waterloo.
4 Grandchildren , 5 Great-Grandchildren
Many nieces and nephews and a host of people who looked to Joyce as a teacher, Grandma and friend.
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Iowa Workforce Development announced Tuesday it is changing the tax tables for employers which will save millions dollars. I-W-D spokesperson, Kerry Koonce says the tax table that determines how much employers pay into the unemployment trust fund is reviewed every year. “You can either move up into a higher tax table, which reduces employer taxes, or you can move down into a lower numbered tax table, which would increase employer taxes,” Koonce said. “There are eight tables in total and we are moving from table four to table five, which in 2013 will save Iowa employers just under a hundred million dollars in unemployment taxes paid into the system.”
The average employer will see the rate they pay fall from two-point-four-percent (2.4%) to two-percent (2.0%) percent for 2013. Koonce says there are several reasons for the move to lower the taxes required of businesses. “It’s happening because we do a good job managing the trust fund. And it’s happening because Iowa has done a good job compared to other states in coming out of the recession. Our wages being paid are going up, our manufacturing hours are back over to working an average over 40-hours-a-week, our employers have been diligent in paying their taxes,” Koonce says. Iowa also doesn’t have to pay any unemployment money back to the federal government.
“We did not borrow from the federal government to support our trust fund, which most states had to do that, and therefore that causes their tax rates to go up. We didn’t have to do that, so our rates have stayed consistent,” Koonce says. You may wonder how the rates paid in by employers can go down when Iowa’s unemployment rate inched up slightly in the last month. Koonce says the table is not based on a one-month trend.
“It’s not based either on just the unemployment rate…it looks at a several year period the amount of dollars that have been paid out of the trust fund. And it looks at the amount of dollars that have been coming into the trust fund, and it’s a very complicated actuarial formula that says there is more than enough funding to pay out even the highest level of benefits that you have experienced in the last five years,” Koonce explains. Over 52-percent of Iowa businesses do not have to pay in any unemployment taxes under the table.
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