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A page of news from the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce.Click on "November 2013 Chamber Page" under "Related Information" shown below to see the newsletter.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? With federal and state online health care marketplaces experiencing glitches a month into implementation, concern is mounting for a vulnerable group of people who were supposed to be among the health law?s earliest beneficiaries.Hundreds of thousands of people across the country with pre-existing chronic conditions such as cancer, heart failure or kidney disease who are covered through high ...
Their faces are young and strong, but their bodies sit in wheelchairs or stand on artificial limbs.They laugh and smile as Roger Waters holds court in a rehearsal hall. The wounded servicemen are waiting to rehearse their set with the former Pink Floyd frontman ahead of Wednesday?s ?Stand Up for Heroes,? the annual fundraising benefit that supports wounded veterans through the Bob Woodruff Foundation.They are ...
Americans who passed part, but not all, of the GED test are rushing to finish the high school equivalency exam before a new version rolls out in January and their previous scores are wiped out.About 1 million people could be affected.With the new version, test takers must use a computer instead of paper and pencil. The test itself will be more rigorous and cost more ? at $120, the price in some states will be ...
Voters faced ballot measures Tuesday including whether to approve seven casinos in New York and the fate of Houston?s iconic Astrodome. Some of the questions:MARIJUANA, ALCOHOLCOLORADO: Voters approved a 25 percent tax on newly legal recreational marijuana to fund school construction. Opponents argued the tax rate would benefit black market sales.MAINE: Voters in Portland, Maine?s largest city, declared ...
Brian J. Hansen, a 40-year-old Iowa-licensed physician who formerly practiced family medicine in Fairfield and other Iowa towns, has surrendered his Iowa medical license and agreed to pay a $10,000 civil penalty after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation.Hansen received a five-year suspended sentence earlier this year after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist.The criminal ...
Two county residents attended Monday?s Jefferson County Board of Supervisors meeting to ask about roads, and supervisor Dick Reed said he?d had a few calls about road conditions prior to the meeting.Jerry Hoage was concerned about a culvert being placed on Glasgow Road.?The bridge is 20 feet and you?re going to put in a culvert that is 33 feet,? Hoage said, addressing county engineer Scott Cline.Hoage was ...
Unofficial results of Fairfield municipal elections show:? The public measure was approved with 64 percent, or 764 yes votes; against 36 percent, or 426 no votes.? Ed Malloy was re-elected mayor with 85 percent of the votes, or 1,050 votes. Challenger Gary Kessler received 180 votes, or 15 percent. Write-in votes for Fairfield mayor were 11, or 0.89 percent.? The contested Fairfield city council seat at-large ...
Trojan baseball players have the opportunity to play in Busch Stadium in St. Louis where games 3-5 of the World Series were played in October between the Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox.The Fairfield school board approved the plan at its Oct. 21 meeting for a potential game July 6 against Wilton High School.Fairfield Community School District Activities Director Jeff Courtright said to make certain the ...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? From rural Iowa to urban New York, voters across America will render judgment in a slate of political contests today, including in New Jersey and Virginia where gubernatorial race outcomes could highlight the Republican Party division between pragmatists and ideologues.Elsewhere, Colorado voters will set a tax rate for marijuana.New York City will elect a new mayor for the first time in 12 ...
CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) ? Iowa lawmakers should ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors and address how the product is taxed, Attorney General Tom Miller said Monday.Miller said during a news conference that he wants the ban on electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes, to be added to the Iowa Smokefree Air Act, the state?s indoor smoking ban. He also wants to determine if the product should have a ...
AMES (AP) ? A man who led police Monday on a car chase through Iowa State University that ended with multiple gunshots on campus has died, law enforcement said.Ames Police spokesman Geoff Huff said in an afternoon news conference that the man was taken to Mary Greeley Medical Center after he was shot in the morning incident. He was later pronounced dead.Huff said the man was driving his father?s reported stolen ...
Capitol comments from Rep. Curt Hanson of Fairfield, representing Iowa House District 82, which covers all of Van Buren and Davis counties, and Packwood, Black Hawk, Penn, Locust Grove, Center, Des Moines, Liberty and Cedar townships of 12 in Jefferson County, including the city of Fairfield.As many know, Southeast Iowa is a hub of business and industry.I recently attended a Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce ...
DES MOINES ? Iowa Workforce Development announced employers will see approximately $104 million dollars in tax savings by moving from tax Table 5 to Table 6.The average rate will fall from 2.0 percent to 1.6 percent for 2014.This marks the third year in a row for positive movement, and will save Iowa businesses nearly half a billion dollars in tax savings, which can be reinvested to encourage job growth.?This ...
