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In may, the minimum wage increased to 9. 15 an hour. Five cities opted out of johnson countys increase. A Polk County Task force wants to increase the minimum wage there to 1075 an hour by january 2019. It recommended a plan to the board of supervisors earlier this month. If approved, the county would start the increase at 875, next april. A pacific hurricane is getting weaker, but could still make landfall on hurricane madeline is a category 1 storm with sustained winds of about 90 miles per hour. Forecasters say it could hit the island sometime in the next 36 hours. People on the island are boarding up their doors today in preparation for heavy rain. Hawaii countys mayor says hes keeping a close eye on the storm to make sure the island is as prepared as possible when it hits. Were making our decisions based on the National Weather service, the best a decision. Businesse ....
Die down and we get some rain. And thats a message they really want to get out there. Also, they say with how dry it is, fires can rekindle very easily so if you recently burned something, may want to keep a close eye on it. In owa city, mar carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Parts of our viewing area could use some rain, and wed all like to see the winds die down. Is any help on the way, joe . Monday provided plenty of wind across the state. Those winds back down overnight and tomorrow. As a cold front approaches the wind remains fro the southwest, eping some very mil conditions in place. The weather system itself does not ave much moisture to work so any rainfall will remain scattered and on the light side. Later in the week highs upper 60s which is still above normal for the late part of october. Have a great night tnight partlycloudy low 4955 windnd sw 1015tomororow isolated owers late high 7177 winds sw 1020 bruce and beth. A crash involving a car and a mini bus sent four people to the h ....
Conditions from wednesday into thursday with our next system set to bring us another rain chance later on friday. This system also appears pretty moisturestarved at this point. Looking ahead to the weekend, it should be another spectacular one withhighs into the 60s and lows droppin back to the 30s. Today isolated pm showers high 7177 winds sw 10 alo 74 dbq 73 iow 74tonight isolated howers low 5258 winds s 510 alo 54 dbq 55 iow 56tomorrow partly cloudy high 7177 winds sw 515 alo 72 dbq 74 iow 76tomorrow night mostly clear low 4248 winds nw 510 alo 43 dbq 43 iow 49 thanks kaj. 4 people are hurt this morning after a crash with a car and a mini bus. Investigators tell tv9 that the car ran a stop sgn slamming into the bus. Authorities say the crash happened just before 830 yesterday moring. It was at highway 281 and fairbank amish boulevard in buchanan county. First responders tok one person by hicopter to university of iowa hospitals and clinics. Ambulancesesook the otherrhree injured to ....
Democratic president s have signed minimum wage laws into law. Republican president s have signed minimum wage laws into law. President eisenhower signed a 33 increase in the minimum wage in 1955. President nixon signed a 44 minimum wage increase into law in 1974. George h. W. Bush signed a 27 minimum wage increase into law in 1989. In 1996, a Republicancontrolled Congress enacted a 21 minimum wage increase, which president clinton signed into law, and most recently, in 2007, president george w. Bush signed a 41 increase into law. You can see on this chart, madam president and i sigh to my friend from louisiana, im winding up. You can see on this chart, madam president , all the different times that the minimum wage has been raised and by how much. If you look at the ten different times weve increased the minimum wage, the average increase has been about 41 . This increase increases it by 39 . Thats below average. T ....