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• Harkin announces Drake University is new home for his work papers (AUDIO)
  Iowa Senator Tom Harkin was at Drake University today to confirm a move many people had expected. “I’m proud to announce today that it’s my intention that Drake University in Des Moines will be the repository for my historical papers and materials when I leave the Senate at the end of 2014,” Harkin said to [...]
  
  
• Latham calls Senate immigration reform bill “a good start”
  Republican Congressman Tom Latham says the U.S. Senate is making a “good start” on an immigration reform plan, but Latham would like to see changes in the proposal. “I’m very pleased the Senate has finally had a debate in an open forum…five days in committee and they’re going to bring it to the floor and [...]
  
  
• ISU study finds more younger Iowans are buying farmland
  Iowa’s high land values are having an impact who owns farmland in the state. Iowa State University agricultural economist Mike Duffy is releasing the results from the 2012 Farmland Ownership Survey and says it appears the economy has been good to Iowa’s young people. Duffy says, “We’re seeing an increase in the land owned by [...]
  
  
• Popular state park to remain closed over holiday weekend
  Dozens of people who reserved campsites or other facilities at a popular state park in northeast Iowa are making new plans for this holiday weekend. George Wyth State Park in Waterloo/Cedar Falls has been closed since Tuesday due to flooding. Greg Van Fosson is a State Parks Supervisor with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. [...]
  
  
• Rededication ceremony for Iowa Memorial in Vicksburg
  Ceremonies in Mississippi this weekend mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Vicksburg and a monument to Iowa soldiers who died there will be rededicated. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is on his way there this morning. “That was a very key turning point in the Great Civil War,” Branstad said earlier this week. “It happened [...]