Their positions this afternoon at the capitol on a bill opposing the governors plan. The republicans want to maintain the same timeline to privatize the states medicaid system, while the democrats say not privatizing will save iowans more money and provide better healthcare. Theres no point on us arguing on political ideologies about this. We need to look at exactly whats going on here and remember the patients and clients come first. Stephanie 2shot early this evening, the bill passed out of the House Committee by a 93 majority, which means it will go onto the senate for another vote. Well have a full breakdown of what was said today and what to expect, coming up at local 5 news at 10. Jack 2shot and governor branstad also spoke about his medicaid privatization plans today, saying this is the best thing for iowans. I dont threaten vetos, ive never done that, i really reserve judgement. But, i would point out, the state of iowa has worked very hard, and we have put together a thoughtfu
Utilties board began today and run through thursday. Reviewing the dakota accesss permit request to build the pipeline cutting through iowa. Now these meetings are for board deliberations only not public input. Although they are open to the public and about 2025 people were there listening this afternoon. The board deliberated over major issues like climate change, pipeline verse rail transportation and of course the Economic Issues like job creation the pipeline could bring. Rather than consider of each factor separately, does it positively public conviencene and neccessity or is it against it take them into isolate, i really think the better approach is to take them all together at the end and decide how much weight each one is entitled to in each of your deliberations claire bam in a news release, the board said they may not make a decision during this weeks meetings. However, theyll continue for the next three days in des moines. They all begin at 1 in the afternoon and are open to
Team and we start with your forecast first. Brad wx wall weather adlib our latest clipper system will bring us about an inch of snow this evening, but it will move out pretty quickly. We should have dry conditions by midnight with skies remaining mostly cloudy through friday morning. Those clouds should give way to sunshine by mid morning friday as drier, but colder, winds come in from the nw at 1525 mph. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa jack 1shot meetings, the iowa utilities board has yet to make a decision on the Bakken Pipeline project. Good evening. Im jack miller. Stephanie has the night off. The board held its final meeting today, and there are no clues about the decision. So what does that mean for iowans . Jack local 5s jacob peklo is here with the latest in tonights big story. Jacob weve now sat through four days of meetings for the iowa utilities board. Theyve been revealing all theyve learned over the past several months, through sworn testimony and hearings
U. N. That spoke to the General Social survey said that 60 to 70 of americans think we have to provide more support to the poor and yet when you say we need to provide more welfare assistance to them, people do more and think that its not true. Another normative assumption that im so happy you wrote the book is most people by people who need public support is being folks Ronald Reagan described, the women who had 80 names and 30 addresses. She was quite a character. Most of that is when she was not true. Years later and was quite an impressive recipient. The most amazing thing is people who are poor want to work. I am just on a daily basis beaten over the head by my colleagues with the notion the certain neerdowell, lazy people who dont want to work, who are constantly lacking in personal responsibility and they dont want to work. They won a game the system and the yearbook, you describe the eight folks here as people connected to the workforce in some style throughout your studies. Le
Morning. Its the first of 5 stops in western iowa. Fiorinas husband frank is joining his wife on the campaign trail. Its the first time hes made a western iowa appearance. Fiorina took several questions during the hour long event, including how she plans to hold washingtonaccountable if electete as for as s tuesdays debate where fiorina said quote obama care isnt helping anyone. We asked the candidate to clariffy her comment. The question is how much better could we do for people. Are we really helping people when we throw them into medicade and fewer and fewer doctors are accepgting medacade paymenst. The truth is how much better cocod we be doing for r people and theswer is a lot better, said carly fiorina. If elected, the former Hewlett Packard ceo said shell push for a zero based budget. Meaning every lineitem in the budget would be scrutinized, not just proposed increases. Its something that Tami Chrisman of sgt bluff says makes sense. Shes a ceo, this is the deal. Shes nono doubl