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(Radio Iowa) – The U-S Senate Agriculture Committee will hold an oversight hearing tomorrow (Wednesday) on the U-S-D-A at which U-S Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is scheduled to testify. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says one key focus of the hearing will be on how to prompt Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to get moving on a vital piece of legislation that’s especially significant for Iowa. “The line of questioning is going to go along the lines of what we can do to get a Farm Bill passed,” Grassley says, “and what he’s doing to encourage Schumer to bring a Farm Bill up and I’m sure he’s going to open with that very subject.”
Typically updated every five years, a new Farm Bill didn’t materialize last year, and Congress passed a one-year extension which will last through this fall. Grassley says Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, knows how crucial the legislation is for Iowa’s farmers and the state’s economy. “I don’t know whether he can do much about it,” Grassley says, “but his voice is very important in encouraging the president to get Schumer to bring up the Farm Bill.”
Grassley says he also wants to question Vilsack about the Commodity Credit Corporation. Grassley, a Republican, says the agency is being used as a “slush fund” to pay for a lot of things of which Congress didn’t approve. “The original legislation setting up the Commodity Credit Corporation is loosely written,” Grassley says, “and I’m sorry to say that not only this secretary of agriculture has abused it, but the Trump secretary of agriculture, abused it as well, as well as President Trump even abusing it.”
The C-C-C was created in the 1930s and is designed to stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices. Grassley co-sponsored a bill last year, saying the corporation was “at risk of becoming a slush fund for politically-driven pet projects.” He says the U-S-D-A Spending Accountability Act would save some eight-billion dollars over ten years.
(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports four recent arrests:
Early Saturday morning (Feb. 24), 40-year-old Matthew Wayne Echternach, of Essex, was arrested for Violation of a No Contact Order. He was being held without bond in the Mills County Jail.
Friday afternoon, 30-year-old Alejandro Munoz, of Omaha, was arrested at the Lancaster County, NE., jail, on a Mills County warrant for Violation of Probation. Bond was set at $25,000.
Thursday afternoon, 47-year-old Veronica Lynn George, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at the Pottawattamie County Jail, on a Mills County warrant for Violation of Probation. Her bond was set at $5,000.
And, a little after 2-a.m. on Feb. 21st, Mills County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Daniel J. McDermott, of Omaha, for OWI/1st offense. He was taken into custody following a traffic stop on I-29. Bond was set at $1,000.
(Red Oak, Iowa) – A traffic stop Monday evening in Red Oak, resulted in an arrest. According to Red Oak Police, 33-year-old Bailie Anne Preston, of Red Oak, was arrested in the 1700 block of 200th Street, for Driving While Suspended – a Simple Misdemeanor. Preston was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on bond amounting to $491.25.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Atlantic Business and Professional Women (BPW) organization has four scholarships available for 2024. The Iowa Business and Professional Women’s Foundation also has four $1,000 scholarships available at www.bpw-iowa.org. If you know anyone who could benefit from these scholarships, please have them contact Laurine Price, at 712-249-6688 or lprice_79@msn.com or local high school scholarship websites for an application.
All applications are due by or postmarked by: April 1, 2024
The $750.00 Collen Scholarship is available to any female student a resident of Cass, Shelby, or Audubon Counties in Iowa. The student must be pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Systems Management, Chemistry or Engineering. The student may attend college full-time or part-time.
The $1000.00 BPW Scholarship is available to a Cass County resident non-traditional (has been out of high school 5+ yrs.) female or male who: (1) Is a United States citizen; (2) Has been out of the work force and is seeking to get back into the work force and needs additional education; (3) Completed high school five or more years ago and wants to start or resume their college education; (4) Demonstrates financial need, scholastic ability, leadership skills and career goals.
The $1000.00 Bev Mendenhall Nursing Scholarship honoring the memory of a long-time active Atlantic member. The scholarship is available to a female or male resident of Cass County, Iowa who is a non-traditional student (has been out of high school 5+ yrs.) who: (1) Is a United States citizen; (2) Has been out of the work force and is seeking to get back into the work force and needs additional education; (3) Completed high school five or more years ago and wants to start or resume their college education; (4) Demonstrates financial need, scholastic ability, leadership skills and career goals.
The $1000.00 Don Sonntag Nursing Scholarship, provided by the generous donation from Don Sonntag. The scholarship is available to a female or male resident of Cass County, Iowa, is a high school senior or non-traditional student who is a US citizen and is pursuing education in the Nursing profession
Iowa Business and Professional Women Foundation Scholarships
The Iowa BPW Federation was founded in 1920. The Iowa BPW Foundation was established in 1988 for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. Since that time, the Educational Scholarship Committee has awarded numerous scholarships to deserving women and men in order to help them continue their higher education.
The Iowa Business and Professional Women Foundation works to:
Four $1000.00 scholarships will be awarded for 2024-2025 academic year. Applications may be found at: www.bpw-iowa.org
Requirements
Applicants must be a non-traditional student who:
The limit of the scholarship awards is two (2) years.
(Adair, Iowa) – The Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center School District Boards of Education will meet 7-p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 28th), in the AC/GC Junior High Media Center, in Adair. On the agenda for their combined Work Session, is discussion with regard to Whole Grade Sharing. No action is expected. According to the Iowa Department of Education, “Whole grade sharing as a procedure used by school districts whereby all or a substantial portion of the pupils in any grade in two or more school districts share an educational program for all or a substantial portion of a school day under a written agreement pursuant to the Iowa Code. Whole grade sharing may either be one-way or two-way sharing.
Starting with the 2016-2017 school year, the Adair-Casey District entered into a Whole Grade Sharing Agreement with the Guthrie Center Schools, thereby starting a new chapter in the school district. Elementary students within the school district in grades Pre-school through 6 attend school at the Adair-Casey Elementary campus. Junior high (grades 7 and 8) join students from Guthrie Center and attend the AC/GC Junior High at the Adair-Casey campus. Grades 9 through 12 from both Adair-Casey and Guthrie Center attend the AC/GC High School at the high school campus in Guthrie Center.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – Members of the Atlantic Community School District’s Board of Education will hold a Work Session at 5:30-p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 28th), in the Central Administration Conference Room at the Achievement Center (1407 SW 7th St.). The meeting will be made available for viewing through YouTube. Among other business, the Board will act on approving the resignations of:
And, they will act to approve contract recommendations and/or Letters of Assignment for:
View the rest of their agenda here: 02282024 Public AGENDA Work Session
(Atlantic,Iowa) – The Atlantic Park and Recreation Department Park Advisory Commission is set to meet Wednesday afternoon (Feb. 28th), at the Parks and Rec Office at 1200 Sunnyside Lane. During their 3:30-p.m. Session, the Commission is expected to elect a chairman and vice chairman.
They will also discuss old programs and new ideas. And, they’re expected to hear a presentation from Vicki Nordskog, with regard to Mollett Park.
The commission held its first meeting last month. Parks Coordinator Jeff Christensen said during the last meeting on January 24th, that he envisioned the commission as one that would take community input and come up with ideas for the park to get a variety of opinions when it comes to programs and activities.
(Radio Iowa) – A bill under consideration in the Iowa House would lower the state tax rate for Iowa’s state-licensed casinos to be at or near the tax rate for casinos in Nebraska and Missouri. Illinois casinos have variable tax rates, based on the size of the market and the games offered. Mark Joyce is a lobbyist for the company that operates the Diamond Jo casinos in Northwood and Dubuque. Joyce says lowering taxes would be a welcome move. Lobbyist Doug Struyk represents the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, which he says is facing competition from new casinos in Illinois. Struyk also represents Caesars Entertainment which owns the Horseshoe and Harrah’s casinos in Council Bluffs that soon will be competing with a new casino in Omaha.
Gaming revenue for all three Council Bluffs casinos began to dip when the WarHorse Casino in Lincoln opened in September of 2022 and Harrah’s opened in Columbus, Nebraska in June of last year. Struyk says that has slowed the flow of gamblers from Nebraska into Iowa. Another WarHorse Casino is expected to open in Omaha by August of this year. Representative Jane Bloomingdale is sponsoring the bill to gradually lower Iowa’s casino taxes over a three year period. She’s from Northwood. The state-licensed Diamond Jo casino is nearby.
Bloomingdale’s bill has cleared a House subcommittee, but one member of the panel said she’s concerned cutting casino taxes will lower the amount of money deposited in the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund. Money from the fund is used on a variety of projects, from lake dredging to constructing or repairing state-owned buildings.
(Radio Iowa) – Koch (coke) Industries has announced a three-point-six billion dollar deal to buy a fertilizer plant in southeast Iowa, and some ag leaders fear it could create a monopoly. The purchase of the Iowa Fertilizer Company in Lee County still awaits federal review. Jason Sporrer is a sales manager for a co-op that serves western Iowa. He says when the fertilizer company opened in 2017, it brought more competition to the marketplace.
“Some of that now is going by the wayside, in my opinion,” Sporrer says. Democrats in the Iowa statehouse also have questions about the acquisition. They want federal and state regulators to investigate the impact consolidation would have on prices and the 260 employees of the facility in Wever. Iowa State University economics professor Chad Hart says four of the top producers control 80-percent of fertilizer production.
Hart says, “I think that always puts up what’s called yellow caution lights within the sector about, okay, are we truly maintaining the competitive balance there or not?” Hart says the war in Ukraine led to major swings in fertilizer pricing. A U-S-D-A spokesperson says when dominant middlemen control so much of the fertilizer supply chain, producers, and consumers “bear the brunt.”
(Red Oak, Iowa) – Police in Red Oak, Monday, arrested 23-year-old Brandon Lane Good, of Red Oak. Officials say Good was taken into custody at around 6:40-p.m. in the 200 block of E. Hammond Street, on an active Pottawattamie County warrant for Failure To Appear on a Driving while license denied or revoked, charge. Good was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 bond, or until extradition to Pott. County.
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