Iowa on Friday October 30, 2009

IA: Iowa House leader says more budget cuts loom
By Staff Reports, Sioux City Journal
Attention has been focused on Gov. Chet Culver's plans to cut $565 million from the state's budget, but legislators say they'll probably have to make an equally large cut to the following year's budget.
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IA: Regents, presidents to discuss budget cuts today
By Staci Hupp, The Des Moines Register
Most tenured faculty members at Iowa's three state-run universities would avoid layoffs, but other faculty and instructors would be forced to take time off without pay and would see less money at retirement under proposed budget cuts, faculty leaders said Wednesday.
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IA: University employees spared from layoffs
By Staci Hupp, The Des Moines Register
CEDAR FALLS, IA -- Workers at Iowa's three state-run universities appear to have escaped layoffs from the state budget ax, with plans that rely on unpaid time off and smaller contributions by the schools to employees' retirement accounts.
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IA: Possible layoffs unsettle prison officers, workers
By William Petroski, The Des Moines Register
NEWTON, IA -- The mood was tense and somber at the Newton Correctional Facility during Thursday's first shift change, as rank-and-file prison workers await the outcome of union negotiations that could determine their fates.
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IA: Iowa university presidents reject performance bonuses
By The Associated Press, Sioux City Journal
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA --The presidents at Iowa's three regent universities say they will forgo performance bonuses for the current fiscal year.
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IA: Iowa wants FEMA to waive rent on trailers
By The Associated Press, Sioux City Journal
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA -- Iowa wants the federal government to waive rent from flood victims still living in mobile homes provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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IA: Regents narrowly support $100 tuition surcharge
By Staci Hupp, Jason Clayworth, Brian Morelli and Gunnar Olson, The Des Moines Register
CEDAR FALLS, IA -- Iowa state Board of Regents members this afternoon narrowly voted in support of a $100 spring tuition surcharge for students at the state's three public universities.
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IA: Pappajohns' $26 million research gift boosts U of I
By David Elbert, The Des Moines Register
Des Moines venture capitalist John Pappajohn and his wife, Mary, have committed $26.4 million toward constructing, equipping and staffing a University of Iowa biomedical research building and institute.
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IA: Union president: I don't give a S*** if people believe me
By Jason Clayworth, The Des Moines Register
The president of Iowa's largest state workers union today told Iowa Board of Regents that there is at least one university department where three supervisors oversee six union workers.
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IA: Appel seeks reelection
By Jason Clayworth, The Des Moines Register
Sen. Staci Appel, D-Ackworth, announced today she's running for reelection.
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IA: UNI -- Parents who avoided Price Lab tuition must pay
By Jason Clayworth, The Des Moines Register
CEDAR FALL, IA — Families who wrongfully avoided tuition at a state-run training school must pay or face legal consequences, officials from the University of Northern Iowa said Thursday.
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Weekly wrap: Rating agency slams Conn. on borrowing
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
Agency lowers Conn. credit outlook; federal broadband grants will be delayed a month; and confusion continues on stimulus job claims.
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