Braley pushes legislation for community college training
From the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald
Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, visited Dubuque’s Historic Millwork District Friday to tout his New Era Expansion Act, which he introduced this week.

The legislation would authorize the Secretary of Labor to award grants to community colleges to establish a program for training people in wind energy and energy-efficient construction. Read full article…

Loebsack secures funding for downtown cameras
From the Ottumwa Courier
For years, the current police chief has wanted a way to keep an eye on downtown Ottumwa.

“When I was a nightshift sergeant back in the ’90s, there was a lot more [evening bar] activity downtown,” said Ottumwa Police Chief Jim Clark. “We had fight after fight after fight. It wasn’t unusual to have 20 [people] involved in a fight.” Read full article…

Animal Agriculture Responds To Antibiotics Challenge
From CattleNetwork.com
Representatives of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa) and Michael Apley, DVM, Kansas State University veterinary clinical pharmacologist, this week visited with Slaughter and other congressional staff to express concerns about the legislation.

“There are a lot of misconceptions and outright misrepresentations out there about why and how antibiotics are used in the cattle industry,” Apley noted in a news release. “It would be a tragedy to lose any valuable tools for preventing animal disease without substantial evidence for a benefit to human health.”

Boswell was part of a recent congressional delegation trip to Denmark that examined the impacts of an antibiotics ban on the country’s swine population. Read entire article…