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Local-option sales tax now backed statewide
Johnson and Linn voters overwhelmingly approve the extra penny per dollar for school building needs.
14 February 2007
Despite snowy conditions that shut down several eastern Iowa schools, voters in Linn and Johnson counties overwhelmingly approved an increase in the state sales tax from 5 percent to 6 percent to pay for school building needs. click here to read the entire article


Proposed law would strengthen worker rights
6 February 2007

WASHINGTON - Linda Merfeld is a nurse and a union activist. And in a way, she's lucky: She hasn't been fired yet. The Employee Free Choice Act would protect her, and others like her.

But Merfeld, a Service Employees member who led the union drive at Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa, is the exception to the rule: Last year, 31,000 workers were summarily and illegally fired for trying to organize unions at their workplaces. click here to read the entire article