A pair of U.S. House bills ask for an end to tax credits responsible for creating and propping up the American solar energy industry. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman [...]
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Posted March 24, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES, Iowa — According to reports from the Iowa Department of Revenue, an obscure tax break, the Research Activities Credit, has allowed major corporations to receive millions in tax [...]
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa — Running into a combination of bureaucratic inertia, big-money special interest influence and ignorant state legislators is enough to make anyone want a stiff drink. Iowa’s micro-distillers [...]
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. — A fast-growing foreign-student work program is taking jobs from U.S. citizens, while its “alarming mismanagement” poses a national security threat, critics charge. “Foreign students, sometimes aided by school [...]
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Posted March 06, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES, Iowa — If a dog at one of Iowa’s two remaining greyhound racetracks was in the same shape as those racetracks’ finances, it would be euthanized on the [...]
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Posted February 28, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES, Iowa — On Jan. 5, 2012, Paul Valin called the police to report he’d found a backpack containing what he believed to be meth-making equipment. That simple act [...]
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Posted February 27, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES, Iowa — Hard work and determination may be traditional ingredients for success, but they’re no match for having the federal government force customers to buy your product. Consider [...]
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Posted February 20, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES, Iowa — Exactly what Sioux City’s automated traffic cameras have done to improve public safety is debatable, but the more than $1 million they’ve raised to fatten police [...]
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Posted February 11, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The phone call came the other day as I drove to work. A tired, sad voice said, “Scott there’s going to be another murder trial.” My shoulders [...]
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa — Things got testy in the commerce committee as members of the Iowa House of Representatives discussed an amendment to a bill regulating e-cigarettes. The amendment, introduced [...]
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