DIRECTV to offer local HD programming to Cedar Rapids/Waterloo market by mid-2008 December 13, 2007
Posted by John in Business.Tags: Cedar Rapids, DIRECTV, high-definition television, Satellite TV, Waterloo
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From recent DIRECTV release:
DIRECTV will offer local HD broadcast networks in 76 markets, representing more than 75 percent of U.S. TV households, when it rolls out 11 additional local HD markets by mid-2008. …
DIRECTV will deliver HD programming from each of the primary broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC – where available, to customers who subscribe to any TOTAL CHOICE® programming package that offers local channels. …
The 11 local markets to receive HD programming from DIRECTV include:
- Albany/Schenectady/Troy, N.Y.
- Paducah, Ky.
- Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, Iowa
- Tucson, Ariz.
- Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, Mich.
- Waco/Temple/Bryan, Texas
- Lincoln/Hastings, Neb.
- Wichita/Hutchinson, Kan.
- Louisville, Ky.
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa.
- Omaha, Neb.
Grassley votes with committee Dems on contempt citation against Rove, Bolten December 13, 2007
Posted by John in Crime/Courts, Government, Political.Tags: Arlen Specter, chuck grassley, george w. bush, Josh Bolten, Karl Rove, President Bush, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
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From Washington Wire blog at Wall Street Journal:
After months of threatening, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, with the help of a couple of Republicans, approved a contempt citation against former White House political strategist Karl Rove and Josh Bolten, President Bush’s chief of staff. …
Today’s vote was 12-7, with two Republicans — Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Charles Grassley of Iowa — voting with all the committee’s Democrats. … more >>
C.R.-based Interstate Power and Light acquires wind development site December 13, 2007
Posted by John in Business, Energy.Tags: Alliant Energy, alternative energy, Cedar Rapids, Franklin County, Hampton Iowa, Interstate Power and Light, Wind Capital Group, wind energy, wind farms
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Appearing in St. Louis Business Journal:
Interstate Power and Light Co. (IPL) announced it acquired a wind development site in north central Iowa for an undisclosed amount from St. Louis-based Wind Capital Group LLC.
The Buffalo Creek Wind Farm in Franklin County, Iowa, has the potential to produce up to 200 megawatts of emissions-free wind-generated electricity when completely developed…
See more in this Interstate Power and Light release.
Alliant Energy is the parent company of Interstate Power and Light Company.
NYT story today on Storm Lake, immigration, politics December 13, 2007
Posted by John in IowaCaucuses, Political.Tags: iowa caucuses, 2008 election, postville, Storm Lake, immigration, diversity, Denison, Ottumwa, Marshalltown, ESL
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Available at this link:
Like a handful of communities in Iowa — places named Denison, Ottumwa, Postville and Marshalltown — Storm Lake, a city of about 10,000, offers a glimpse at how new immigration has transformed the nation’s rural middle and with it, the political landscape.
Two decades ago, less than 1 percent of the people in Buena Vista County, where Storm Lake is the county seat, were Hispanic. By last year, the county had the highest percentage of Hispanic people of any county in Iowa, with 19.2, compared with less than 4 percent statewide. Buena Vista County also ranks highest in Iowa in percentages of those learning English in school, of recent international immigrants and of residents born in other countries. …
Today, minority residents make up more than 40 percent of the population, law enforcement officials here say; the numbers in the local schools, the authorities there say, are even higher — 49 percent Hispanic, 10 percent Asian, 4 percent African-American. … more >>
Former Iowa Rep. Jim Nussle at event today to launch OMB’s federal spending Web site December 13, 2007
Posted by John in Business, Government.Tags: Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, government transparency, Jim Nussle, Office of Management and Budget, OMB, USASpending.gov, Washington Post, Web sites, White House
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Created in accordance with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, which requires the Office of Management and Budget to ensure the existence of a single, searchable Web site of federal spending.
More information about USASpending.gov from today’s Washington Post:
… Official antagonists, political opposites, brought together by a wild, crazy idea: federal budget transparency. Online and searchable. Free for the asking.Today, the White House budget office officially launches USASpending.gov, a Web site that shows taxpayers where their dollars go and which legislators, contractors and regions get the most. …
Grassley introduces bill to recognize life and work of Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois December 13, 2007
Posted by John in Government.Tags: chuck grassley, Henry Hyde, Illinois, iowa, Legislation, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
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Appears in yesterday’s Congressional Record [PDF]:
Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, today, I am introducing a Senate resolution to honor the life and work of Congressman Henry John Hyde of Illinois. I authored this resolution because I knew Henry Hyde for over 20 years. In fact, he and I were 2 of 16 Republicans who were first elected to the House of Representatives in 1974. …
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