Day: September 3, 2011

North Iowa Connect will be hosting a “Bigwig Lunch Talk” on September 6th at noon at Conference Room #1 at the Mercy West Campus. North Iowa Connect is a young person’s group

Sandy Servantez, a life-long resident of Mason City and friend of the Human Rights Commission, has declared her candidacy for City Council. Servantez (pictured above) will be running for the at-large seat

By Orson Aguilar and Carla Saporta While national politicians argue about cuts to Social Security and Medicare down the road, cash-strapped state governments are cutting vital services for elderly Americans today. Those

McClatchy-Tribune News Service It was a natural reaction after 9/11: Protect the nation at any cost. But a survey of homeland security projects by Los Angeles Times staff writer Kim Murphy reveals

LOS ANGELES ó Electric cars are back. Popular in early automotive history, electrics quickly got smoked by their internal-combustion-driven cousins. But in this age of volatile gas prices and climate worries, these

WASHINGTON ó For the first time, Texas Gov. Rick Perry leads President Barack Obama in a national poll, by 44 to 41 percent, while his GOP rivals trail in head-to-head match-ups against

As a continuation of work on the 19th Street SE and Mason Creek Culvert widening project, installation of storm sewer is scheduled to begin the week of September 6th. The affected area