Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. getty Legislators in eight blue states kicked off the year introducing a coordinated package of tax hikes targeting upper income households. While that effort attracted co...
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Meet RAYGUN, The Tiny Midwestern Meme Machine Partnering With The Onion To Speed-Sell Gentle Snark
Pandering to the locals at a RAYGUN store COURTESY OF RAYGUN RAYGUN, the privately held novelty company that’s made a growing business of plastering emerging memes on T-shirts and selling them before ...
One Iowa credit union is offering a 6% APY on its 1-year CDs. 3 reasons to consider opening one right now
If saving more money is on your list of 2023 financial resolutions, you might be thinking about where to put your savings and the fastest way to grow your funds. For some savers, a certificate of depo...
Hy-Vee & IndyCar Explain Iowa Speedway Price Increase
Entertainer Gwen Stefani performs before July’s Hy-Vee Salute to Farmers 300 at Iowa Speedway IndyCar Photo One of the major highlights of the 2022 NTT IndyCar Series season was the tremendous e...
Democrats Take Step To Make South Carolina First Primary Contest—Replacing Iowa
Topline A key Democratic Party board voted Wednesday to support putting South Carolina’s primary at the start of the 2024 presidential primary calendar, replacing Iowa’s long-standing firs...
Residents Of These Five States Are Weeks Away From Getting An Income Tax Cut
Income tax cuts take effect in five states in the first month of 2023. Getty Millions of Americans will see their state government take a smaller bite out of paychecks when 2023 begins in a few weeks....
Hy-Vee And Iowa Speedway Announce Big-Name Concert Lineup For 2023 IndyCar Weekend
The Zac Brown Band is one of four featured acts as part of the Hy-Vee IndyCar Weekend at Iowa … [+] Speedway Photo Courtesy of Hy-Vee and Iowa Speedway When Iowa-based supermarket chain Hy-Vee a...
Wrong For Iowa And America
Medicare for All is a catchy title promising a utopian system of free health care with easy access to any hospital or physician. Despite its appeal, support plummets when people learn about the inevit...
Railway Superhighway Supercharges Iowa Senate Race Between Mike Franken And Chuck Grassley
A North-South rail superhighway may make Iowa “Roll-Over” Country BNSF A $31 billion merger between Canadian Pacific and the Kansas Southern Railways is roiling Iowa’s hotly contested U.S....
How A Breakup And Lockdown Led To Lissie’s Best Record Yet
The singer-songwriter Lissie. credit: Lili Peper There would hardly be any disagreement to say that 2020 was a very difficult year for everybody—including the indie pop singer-songwriter Elisabeth Mau...
Why Ingredion Workers Are Still On Strike In Iowa
Ingredion workers picket line in August 2022. BCGTM Local 100G IngredionINGR workers with BCTGM Local 100G in Cedar Rapids, Iowa have been on strike for over a month. We spoke with Jason Davis, Intern...
Dried-Out Farms From China to Iowa Will Pressure Food Prices
(Bloomberg) — Drought is shrinking crops from the US Farm Belt to China’s Yangtze River basin, ratcheting up fears of global hunger and weighing on the outlook for inflation. The latest warning ...
Strike At Iowa Army Ammunition Plant Could Have Big Consequences For Ukrainian Army
A strike may disrupt America’s ammunition supply chain AFP via Getty Images Far from the Ukrainian front lines, labor trouble is brewing at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. After a set of union c...
State Fairs Hope To Put Disease And Deficits Behind Them In Their First Full-Throttle Season Since Covid
Corn dogs will fry. Pigs will parade. Butter cows will greet visitors from their climate-controlled enclosures. This month is go-time for Ferris wheels, bacon-wrapped beef on a stick and llamas dresse...
Iowa Could Outlaw Abortion As Governor Asks Court To Let 6-Week Ban Take Effect
Topline Iowa could become the latest state to prohibit abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, as Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) asked a state court Thursday to let the state’s abortion ban take effect after i...
MidAmerican Energy Abandons Plan To Add 30 Wind Turbines, Madison County Residents Celebrate: ‘How Awesome’
MidAmerican Energy Company has cancelled plans to put 30 wind turbines in Madison County, Iowa, a … [+] province famous for its covered wind bridges. The decision was cheered by county residents...
The Remarkable Story Of How Hy-Vee Saved Iowa Speedway For IndyCar
Bobby Rahal, Randy Edeker and Graham Rahal. IndyCar Photo In just two years, Hy-Vee has gone from sponsoring an Indy car in the second race of a doubleheader to going “all-in” with IndyCar. The growin...
BlockFi wins money services license in Iowa
BlockFi, a New Jersey-based crypto lending platform, has received a money services license in Iowa, the company announced June 28. We’re excited to announce that we’ve received our Money Service...
Invenergy Sues An Iowa County, Uses ‘Nefarious Tactics’ To Push More Wind Turbines
Invenergy, a company controlled by billionaire Michael Polsky, sued Worth County, Iowa last month … [+] claiming the county’s wind regulations are “onerous and extreme.” Julie ...
Iowa Can Now Ban Abortion As State Court Strikes Down Right To Procedure
Topline The Iowa Constitution does not protect the fundamental right to an abortion, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Friday, overturning a previous ruling that enshrined the right to the procedure, al...
Celsius Rival BlockFi to Pay $1 Million to Iowa for Selling Unregistered Securities
Celsius isn’t the only decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform having a bad week; yesterday, competitor BlockFi was asked to pay a $943,396.22 fine from the state of Iowa’s Insurance Division Fi...
BlockFi Fined Over $900K for Not Registering Securities in Iowa – crypto.news
A multi-state investigation in the US uncovered that BlockFi offered unregistered securities and misled information about its lending risks. BlockFi Fined Over $943K by Iowa BlockFi, a crypto lending ...
BlockFi Ordered to Pay Over $943K in Iowa for Failing to Register Securities
BlockFi will pay settlements of up to $50 million to the 53 United States following the investigation, as well as another $50 million to the SEC. BlockFi has been ordered to pay an administrative fee ...
Iowa regulator orders BlockFi to pay $943K over alleged unregistered securities offering
The Iowa Insurance Division, or IID, a regulator responsible for many securities sales in the state, has fined crypto lending firm BlockFi more than $943,000 after it allegedly offered and sold unregi...
Iowa State Fines BlockFi for Overstatements About Collateralization
The state of Iowa has ordered BlockFi Lending LLC to pay a fine and cease making false statements regarding the securities it offers. Crypto lender BlockFi is in hot water with state regulators in Iow...
BlockFi fined $943,000 for not registering securities in Iowa; to pay $100M in settlement
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Cryptocurrency trading and lending platform BlockFi has been fined $943,000 by the Iowa Insurance Division for failing to regi...
How The Flat Tax Revolution Of 2022 Was Sparked In North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina getty A reporter for WUNC — the NPR member station covering Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill — referred to North Carolina as the “Rip Van Winkle State” during the June 3 episod...
Why Iowa State’s Breece Hall Fits The New York Jets’ Offense, Plus Other Day 2 And Day 3 Observations
Iowa state running back Breece Hall smiles after being selected by the New York Jets during the … [+] second round of the NFL football draft Friday, April 29, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John ...
Buffett successor Greg Abel is a ‘regular guy’ from Iowa with a ‘shocking workload’
At a hockey rink in West Des Moines, Iowa, Greg Abel is just another dad, a volunteer coach on his son’s team. He digs pucks out of the net after practice and hands out praise and fist bumps as ...
Iowa Center Tyler Linderbaum Might Be Too Good For The Green Bay Packers To Pass Up
Former Iowa standout Tyler Linderbaum won the Rimington Award as the nation’s top center in 2021. ASSOCIATED PRESS Note: The NFL Draft begins April 28 and the Green Bay Packers have the 22nd and...
DNC Upends Presidential Primary Calendar—Possibly Knocking Iowa From Top Spot
Topline A panel of Democratic National Committee officials scrapped the party’s traditional presidential primary calendar on Wednesday, according to multiple reports, possibly knocking Iowa from the l...
IndyCar, Penske Entertainment And Hy-Vee Will Bring A Street Racing Festival To Short Oval Racing In Iowa
HyVee Honda at Iowa Speedway INDYCAR Photo BY BRUCE MARTIN Forbes SportsMoney Iowa Speedway and Iowa-based supermarket chain Hy-Vee hope to bring IndyCar’s successful “street race” model to the Iowa s...