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May 7, 2008
Auditor’s Race
May 7, 2008
Fear Index
What’s frightening us this week?
1. Measles. From The Gazette:
A national measles outbreak has state officials urging Iowans to make sure their vaccinations are up-to-date.
No cases have been reported in Iowa, but Iowa Department of Public Health officials caution that the risk is high for measles to enter the state.
…Measles, a highly contagious disease, causes high fever, [...]
May 7, 2008
Chet Not Like Open Records
From The Des Moines Register:
Gov. Chet Culver’s office has begun to encourage state agencies to charge for the cost of having government lawyers review documents requested under Iowa’s open-records law.
The advice runs contrary to past practices of numerous city and state agencies, which sometimes charge citizens or media to retrieve and copy records and e-mails [...]
