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Higher than expected cost for Woodbury County’s Law Enforcement Center has members of the Woodbury Board of Supervisors looking at spending COVID-19 relief money on the project.
The Sioux City Journal reports the board moved closer yesterday to allocating $15.6 million toward the jail, but took no action.
The original estimate for the main phase of the project came in at $34 million. But, there is a 36% increase in cost.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds says she will be running for reelection in 2022.
Radio Iowa reports she was asked by reporters in Lake View yesterday if she might run for the U.S. Senate if Republican Chuck Grassley decides to not seek another term. Reynolds says “she is not leaving Iowa” and will make a formal statement
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Record profits by U.S. meatpackers has both cattle producers and government officials calling for an investigation by the Department of Justice regarding the disparity in the cattle markets.
Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews
May 28, 2021 | 6:34 AM
Six governors from cattle states have written a letter to the United States Department of Justice, asking them to continue their investigation into anti-competitive practices in the meatpacking industry.
The DOJ had originally sent investigative demands to the nation’s four largest meatpackers in May 2020.
“Perhaps no person embodies the independent and untamable spirit of the United States better than the cattle producer,” wrote the governors. “But this way of life is under threat. Decades of consolidation in meatpacking has significantly limited the options that producers have to market their cattle and has created a situation where one segment of the beef industry has near total control over the entire market.”