Yes, we are moving on an application for this. Check out the Facebook page for now. Hopefully sometime this week we’ll get up a web site and blog. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, start here. Posting will be light while I add this to the to-do list.
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Here is a weird coincidence… A guy named Gayle Issac has financial fraud investigative agency in Des Moines. In Clinton, we have a guy named, Gayle Issac, who is the Chief Financial Officer of the School District who presided over a huge embezzlement scandal that played over several years and stole many hundreds of...
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Lyondell Basell India-based Reliance is continuing to try to purchase the bankrupt chemical giant. The offer, initally tendered in November, stands at $13.5b. The Dutch-based Lyondell is continuing to work through its Chapter 11 reorganization, and recently filed a motion for settling claims of creditors and setting up a litigation trust fund. Bridgepoint Education-Ashford...
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Polly Butka is announcing that she will not run for re-election in the fall. Rep. Butka who is serving in her seventh term is the Assistant Majority Leader and Speaker Pro Tem of the House. It is expected that she will endorse Clinton attorney, Mary Wolfe to replace her. Ms. Wolfe is expected to...
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Starting last Friday, Mediacom, the nation’s 8th largest Internet service provider changed their mail servers. For a long time, Mediacom had hosted their mail servers with AT&T. Last week, Mediacom transitioned to Zimbra.com as their mail hosting company. And everything fell apart from there. Most customers report that receiving mail works fine but sending...
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As a bit of a public service, today I am going to talk about the Lincolnway Railport. This is the largest and most ambitious economic development project in the Clinton area in a long, long time. So, it is important to know all the facts. How long has this been in development? The former...
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There is something about the first big snow storm of the year that gets to the kid in me. Sleeping in, eating a hot breakfast and going out to play in the snow. Although modern technology made it possible for me to be remotely logged into two different networks running various troubleshooting operations while...
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That is the conclusion of a recent survey of Clinton, Iowa wireless network access points conducted by Clinton technology consulting firm, Riverfront Technology, Inc. “Almost all of the commercial internet service providers now supply their customers with WiFi enabled routers. Many of these come with instructions for enabling the wireless but the default condition...
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In business sector, India’s largest company, Reliant Industries continues its interest in acquiring the North American assets of LyondellBasell. The petrochemical giant floundered into debt-induced Chapter 11 bankruptcy last January. Although no public pronnouncement has been made wth regardst to the size of the offer, industry sources say it probably ranges between $3 and...
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As a downtown Clinton business owner I am a member of the Clinton Downtown PartnershipM. The Downtown Partnership recently conducted a survey of residents who live downtown. Surveys were distributed to residents of the following properties: Van Allen Building Armstrong Building Howes Building Lafayette Building Tucker Building Park Towers 90 surveys were distributed and...
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