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The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office has posted reports on several arrests and prisoner transfers in/out from the past week. The Incarceration report had been off-line since Dec. 17th, and brought back on-line today (Friday), after some software upgrades. Among those arrested over the past week:
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – Jan. 31, 2020 – The Iowa Department of Transportation’s Council Bluffs Interstate System Improvement Program has released its 2019 Annual Report. The report highlights progress made on construction and design projects over the last year. It also features information on public outreach, program status, statistics for work completed in 2019, and a preview of 2020 activities. To view the report online, visit www.CouncilBluffsInterstate.IowaDOT.gov/2019annualreport
Iowa DOT District 4 Engineer Scott Schram says “The program was very busy over the last year working toward opening the dual, divided freeway and completing the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge over I-29. The program’s annual report provides a high-level overview of all of the work that occurred in 2019 and provides a summary of how the Iowa DOT is delivering this important highway improvement project.”
To find out more about the Council Bluffs Interstate System Improvement program, go to www.CouncilBluffsInterstate.IowaDOT.gov.
A year ago, many Iowa Democrats were debating how to pronounce Pete Buttigieg’s last name. He’s now projected to be among the top-tier finishers in the Iowa Caucuses on Monday. Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson reports.
Earlier this week, Radio Iowa listeners heard the closing arguments from Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. Radio Iowa requested an interview with Bernie Sanders, but a campaign spokesman said the impeachment trial had complicated the senator’s schedule.
(Radio Iowa) — State Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald says the amount you can take for a 2020 Iowa income tax deduction in the College Savings Iowa plan has increased. “In the year 2020, Iowans can put three-thousand-439 into their college savings account for each child they want to save for and deduct it right from their Iowa income tax,” Fitzgerald says. That is an increase of 52 dollars form the amount you could deduct for the 2019 tax year. “It’s written in to law that if the Consumer Price Index –the cost of living index — goes up, that’s the amount that will be the increase each year for what you can put into College Savings Iowa,”Fitzgerald says.
He encourages all parents to start a savings plan. “It’s never too early to get started saving, and the habit of saving is real, real important, because it surprisingly builds up over time,” according to Fitzgerald. “And I’ve had so many parents and grandparents tell me how happy they were with the growth of the college savings plan. When you get in you get to take advantage of that tax break and also — the federal government won’t charge you income tax on the growth either.” Fitzgerald says the College Savings Iowa money goes toward most college expenses. “Not only can it be used for tuition, but board and room when you go to school. And of course the computers, it can be used for buying books, all those expenses,” Fitzgerald says. “You cannot buy clothes and you cannot pay for transportation.”
Fitzgerald says it’s easy to start a savings plan for your child. “You can just go to College Savings-dot-com and it will take you about five minutes. You need to have your name and your Social Security number. And then you need to know the name of the child you’re saving for that’s under 18, and their Social Security number. And then you fill out the box for the 14 different ways you want to have it invested,” Fitzgerald says. If you already have a College Savings Iowa account, Fitzgerald says you still have time to put money in and get a tax break your 2019 returns. “You can still that for last year until April 30th when you file your Iowa income taxes,” Fitzgerald says.
Fitzgerald says College Savings Iowa has more than 248-thousand active accounts and almost three billion dollars has been used for qualified educational expenses.
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Washington Elementary School, in Atlantic, has been selected to be a beneficiary for the month of February, as part of the Hy-Vee Reusable Bag Program. The school will receive a One-dollar donation every time a $2.50, red, “My Heart” reusable bag is purchased at the Atlantic Hy-Vee.
The Hy-Vee Reusable Bag Program facilitates community support, with the goal of making a difference in the communities where their customers live and work. Washington Elementary staff and students thank you in advance, for your support.
SAN TAN VALLEY, Az (AP) – The Iowa caucuses won’t all be in Iowa. Nearly 1,300 snowbirds, college students and others temporarily outside Iowa will attend the crucial first-in-the-nation caucuses from more than a dozen states and as far away as Europe. It’s the first time the Iowa Democratic Party is holding “satellite caucuses” in far-flung locales to let more people participate in a process often derided as opaque and exclusionary. Altogether, there will be 24 satellite caucuses in 13 states and the District of Columbia. Three international caucuses will be held in Paris; Glasgow, Scotland; and Tbilisi, Georgia.
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DES MOINES, IA – Today, 2020 Presidential candidate John Delaney announces his decision to withdraw from the 2020 race. This decision is informed by internal analyses indicating John’s support is not sufficient to meet the 15% viability in a material number of caucus precincts, but sufficient enough to cause other moderate candidates to not to make the viability threshold, especially in rural areas where John has campaigned harder than anyone. He strongly believes the Democratic Party should advance candidates with progressive values on the big issues of our time, but who are committed to governing with pragmatic, fact-based, bipartisan solutions.
This approach – which is what successfully won back the House in 2018 – beats Trump, unifies our nation and gets things done. We have many candidates in the 2020 race, running in Iowa and otherwise, who meet these criteria. John does not want the good work of his campaign to make it harder for those like-minded candidates on the bubble of viability in many Iowa precincts to advance in the Iowa caucuses and garner delegates.
Police in Creston say a man from Lorimor was arrested at around 6:55-p.m. Thursday, on assault/weapon & drug charges. 40-year old Michael James Wilson was arrested at 710 Main Street in Lorimor, for Domestic Abuse Assault, Assault with a weapon, Possession of drug paraphernalia, and Possession of a controlled substance. He was being held without bond in the Union County Jail until seen by a magistrate.
And, 32-year old Scott Andrew Johnston, of Essex, was arrested in Creston at around 1:10-a.m. today (Friday), for Driving While Suspended and Possession of a Concealed Weapon. Johnston was being held in the Union County Jail on a $1,300 bond.