Iowa lawyer’s license suspended December 20, 2007
Posted by John in Crime/Courts, Law.Tags: Council Bluffs, iowa, Jeff Tekippe, Jeffrey Richard TeKippe, Jeffrey TeKippe, Pottawattamie County, Supreme Court of Iowa
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PDF page about Jeffrey R. TeKippe, of Council Bluffs, posted today at Iowa Judicial Branch.
Marion man wins $33,333 in scratch game - again December 20, 2007
Posted by John in Government.Tags: Cedar Rapids, Edward Murphy, Iowa Lottery, Linn County, Marion, scratch games, Short Stop
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According to the Iowa Lottery:
DES MOINES, Iowa - A Linn County man recently won a significant lottery prize for the second time this year!
Edward Murphy, 50, of Marion won $33,333 playing the “Winning in 3’s” (blue) instant-scratch game. He purchased his winning ticket at Short Stop, 340 Marion Blvd. in Marion and claimed his prize at the Iowa Lottery’s regional office in Cedar Rapids.
This is the second time Murphy hit the top prize in a “Winning in 3’s” scratch game. He also won the top prize in May playing the Winning in 3’s (purple) game. …
National Endowment for the Humanities awards over $100,000 to UI projects December 20, 2007
Posted by John in Government, History.Tags: chuck grassley, National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Iowa
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From Sen. Grassley release:
The University of Iowa was awarded a $50,400 grant for a project titled “Central America’s Encounter with U.S. Manifest Destiny, 1848-1860,” and a grant of $50,400 for a project titled “The Rise and Fall of Christian Nagaski, 1560- 1640.” …
Chicago Tribune caucuses article features several Iranian-Americans at I.C. December 20, 2007
Posted by John in Education, Government, IowaCaucuses, Political.Tags: 2008 election, Chicago Tribune, Diana Mina, iowa, iowa caucuses, Iowa City, Iran, Iranian-Americans, Maysam Mousaviraad, Maysam Takapoo, Siroos Shirazi, UIHC, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Yashar Vasef
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Included in today’s Chicago Tribune article: University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics surgeon Dr. Siroos Shirazi; University of Iowa students Yashar Vasef, Diana Mina, Maysam Mousaviraad, and Maysam Takapoo.
Many Iranians have settled in the Iowa City area, either because they are University of Iowa students — currently numbering about a dozen — or because they were one of the hundreds who studied there during the 1970s, before the 1979 Iranian Revolution ended an educational exchange program. …
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