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E. Thurman Gaskill
E. Thurman Gaskill (April 4, 1935 - March 7, 2023) was an American politician who served as an Iowa State Senator from the Iowa Senate, District 6, 6th District and Assistant Majority Leader of the Iowa Senate. Gaskill was a grain farmer and a board of directors, director of Meta Financial Group, Incorporated (), a bank holding company. He served in the Iowa Senate 1997–2007. He also was a commissioner of both Iowa's Department of Economic Development and its Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Department of Natural Resources, president of Iowa Corn Growers Association, president of National Corn Growers Association, chairman of the United States Feed Grains Council, and held other agriculture positions. In his last term Gaskill served on several committees in the Iowa Senate, the Agriculture committee; the Appropriations committee; the State Government committee; and the Natural Resources and Environment committee, where he was the ranking member. He was ranking member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa Senate, District 6
The 6th district of the Iowa Senate is located in Northwestern Iowa. It is currently composed of Audubon, Buena Vista, Carroll, Crawford and Sac counties. Current elected officials Craig Williams is the senator currently representing the 6th District. The area of the 6th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts: *The 11th District (represented by Gary Worthan) *The 12th District (represented by Brian Best) The district is also located in Iowa's 4th congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Randy Feenstra.https://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/CongressStatewide8x11_color.pdf Past senators The district has previously been represented by:https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/BB/696311.pdf https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/BB/696310.pdf * William M. Reed, 1856–1859 * James C. Hagans, 1860–1863 * C. G. Bridges, 1864–1867 *Edward M. Bill, 1868–1869 * James D. Wright, 1870–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortgage-backed Security
A mortgage-backed security (MBS) is a type of asset-backed security (an 'instrument') which is secured by a mortgage or collection of mortgages. The mortgages are aggregated and sold to a group of individuals (a government agency or investment bank) that securitizes, or packages, the loans together into a security that investors can buy. Bonds securitizing mortgages are usually treated as a separate class, termed residential; another class is commercial, depending on whether the underlying asset is mortgages owned by borrowers or assets for commercial purposes ranging from office space to multi-dwelling buildings. The structure of the MBS may be known as "pass-through", where the interest and principal payments from the borrower or homebuyer pass through it to the MBS holder, or it may be more complex, made up of a pool of other MBSs. Other types of MBS include collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs, often structured as real estate mortgage investment conduits) and collate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garner Leader & Signal , information technology research firm
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Garner may refer to: Places United States * Garner, Arkansas * Garner, Iowa * Garner, Missouri * Garner, North Carolina Other uses * Garner (surname), a surname * Granary, a grain store * '' Tennessee v. Garner'', a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the use of deadly force * , a United States Navy minesweeper in commission from 1917 to 1919 See also *Gartner Gartner, Inc is a technological research and consulting firm based in Stamford, Connecticut that conducts research on technology and shares this research both through private consulting as well as executive programs and conferences. Its clients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallaces' Farmer
Farm Progress is the publisher of 22 farming and ranching magazines. The company dates back nearly 200 years. Farm Progress Companies is owned by Informa. Farm Progress has the oldest known continuously published magazine, ''Prairie Farmer'', which was launched in 1841. The company publishes 18 regional magazines with local coverage of each agricultural community. Farm Progress produces four annual farm shows including the Farm Progress Show, which launched in 1953. History The company currently known as "Farm Progress" started in 1819 with the ''American Farmer'' magazine. '' Prairie Farmer'' started in 1841, followed by '' Wallaces Farmer'' in 1855, which helped chronicle the vast changes in Iowa agriculture as well as provide information to help farmers trim costs and boost profits. Three generations of the Wallace family, Henry Cantwell Wallace, Henry A. Wallace, and Henry Browne Wallace, owned and operated ''Wallaces' Farmer'', which was then a newspaper. The Farm Progress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mason City, Iowa
Mason City is a city and the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. The population was 27,338 in the 2020 census, a decline from 29,172 in the 2000 census. The Mason City Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Cerro Gordo and Worth counties. It is commonly referred to as the "River City", as the city grew up centered on the Winnebago River. History The region around what would later be first called Shibboleth was a summer home to the Sioux and Winnebago nations. The first settlement that became Shibboleth was established in 1853 at the confluence of the Winnebago River and Calmus Creek. The town had several names: Shibboleth, Masonic Grove, and Masonville until Mason City was adopted in 1855, in honor of a founder's son, Mason Long. In 1854, John McMillin opened the first store, and Dr. Silas Card opened the first medical practice in the area. Lizzie Thompson established the first schoolhouse in a log cabin in 1856. The United States Post Office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 77 daily newspapers in 26 states, and more than 350 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by Alfred Wilson Lee and is based in Davenport, Iowa. The company also provides online services, including websites supporting its daily newspapers and other publications. Lee had more than 25 million unique web and mobile visitors monthly, with 209.1 million pages viewed. Lee became majority partner of TownNews.com in 1996; Town News creates software for newspaper publication purposes. The company offers commercial printing services to its customers. Lee Enterprises is currently the fourth largest newspaper group in the United States of America. The company acquired Howard Publications (16 daily newspapers) for $694 million in 2002 and Pulitzer, Inc. (14 daily, over 100 non-daily), for $1.5 billion in 2005. From January 2012 to April 2017, the company's executiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Globe Gazette
The ''Globe Gazette'', known locally as the ''Globe,'' is a daily morning newspaper published in Mason City, Iowa in the United States. History The Globe Gazette traces its history back to July 17, 1858, and a weekly newspaper called ''The Cerro Gordo Press'', named for Cerro Gordo County. By the time Lee Enterprisesbr>acquired the newspaperi1925 under its current name, it had been known as the ''Republican'', the ''Express'', the ''Express-Republican'', the ''Freeman'', the ''Western Democrat'', the ''Herald'', the ''Times-Herald'', the ''Gazette'', and the ''Globe''. The newspaper published in the afternoon, Monday through Saturday, until 1977, when the Saturday edition switched to morning publication. In 1981, all publication switched to a morning schedule. Sunday ''Globes'' began publication in 1985. Content Reporting focuses on local news across a nine-county coverage area and high school sports in 16 school districts. Opinions and editorials published by the newspaper rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolph Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (, ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989. Giuliani led the 1980s federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. After a failed campaign for Mayor of New York City in the 1989 election, he succeeded in 1993, and was reelected in 1997, campaigning on a "tough on crime" platform. He led New York's controversial "civic cleanup" as its mayor from 1994 to 2001.Whether lionized or criticized, "Giuliani's cleanup", especially of Manhattan, most famously Times Square, is widely recognized: B. McKee, "Rules and regulations alone can't revive America's downtowns", ''Architecture'' (American Institute of Architects), 1998 Mar;811 Jane E. Jeffr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Of Iowa
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Iowa was a part of Louisiana (New France), French Louisiana and Louisiana (New Spain), Spanish Louisiana; its Flag of Iowa, state flag is patterned after the flag of France. After the Louisiana Purchase, people laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the heart of the Corn Belt. In the latter half of the 20th century, Iowa's agricultural economy transitioned to a diversified economy of advanced manufacturing, processing, financial services, information technology, biotechnology, and Sustainable energy, green energy productio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa Democratic Party
The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Iowa. While existing when Iowa was granted statehood in 1846, it did not gain broad electoral success until the mid-1950s, when demographic changes resulted in many new voters for the party from immigrants, union members, and industrial workers. The party organizes the Democratic Iowa presidential caucuses, which since 1972 have been the first presidential nominating contest in the national process. Current elected officials Democrats hold a minority in Iowa's U.S. House delegation, holding one out of the state's four seats. They hold three of the seven statewide offices and currently hold minorities in the Iowa House of Representatives and Iowa State Senate. Members of Congress U.S. Senate *None Both of Iowa’s U.S. Senate seats have been held by Republicans since 2015. Tom Harkin was the last Democrat to represent Iowa in the U.S. Senate. U.S. House of Representatives St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa Senate Elections, 2008
The 2008 Iowa Senate election were held on November 4, 2008. The Senate seats for the twenty-five even-numbered districts were up for election. Senate terms are staggered such that half the membership is elected every two years, with each Senators serving a four-year term. Prior to the election, the Democrats were in the majority - marking the first time in 42 years that the Democrats had controlled both branches of the Iowa General Assembly and the Governor's Office. They expanded this majority by two seats in the 2008 elections. Senate composition Results The election took place on November 4, 2008. Candidate list and official results from the Iowa Secretary of State. General election See also *United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, 2008 *Iowa Senate *Iowa House of Representatives *Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2008 *Iowa General Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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