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A Wedding Gift, a Loophole, What Iowa Could Teach Washington (opens the original)
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Donald Trump Jr. got married in the Bahamas back in May. Recently we learned who paid for it, and it wasn’t a wealthy relative. Umar Kremlev — president of the International Boxing Association, financed in part by Russia’s Gazprom and close to Vladimir Putin — reportedly covered hundreds of thousands of dollars in wedding costs, per a ProPublica investigation: a private island at $100,000 a night, a $70,000 fireworks show, the money routed through a Dubai entity. Trump wasn’t present and says he
The Future Has Arrived Before the Rules Do: A (opens the original)
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Political debate in Iowa’s gubernatorial race regarding data center development continues to be front-page news. As reported by Brianne Pfannenstiel in the Des Moines Register, both Republican Zach Lahn and Democrat Rob Sand acknowledge that data centers have rapidly joined “water quality” as top voter concerns.Public pressure shows no sign of relenting. Iowans across the political spectrum continue to raise sharp questions about who bears short- and long-term costs regarding environmental degra
Labor Day Special: Thinking More About Data Centers: How Many Jobs, Really? (opens the original)
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We are taking a quick 24-hour interlude from our 2-part series. On Labor Day, it seems fair to ask a simple question about data centers: How many good, permanent jobs are we actually getting? If you missed yesterday's kickoff, catch up on Part I , before Part 2 drops this Wednesday!In Ames, LightEdge has proposed a colocation data center on about 10.86 acres of city-owne
From Abbott to Zach, everybody’s against data centers now. (opens the original)
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In honor of Labor Day, Ihave also just posted an intermission type substack— Labor Day, Thinking More About Data Centers: How Many Jobs, Really? Rob Sand and Zach Lahn don’t agree on much. But on data centers, their positions land almost on top of each other.Sand: no tax incentives, a &#
The Tax Amendment Iowa Candidates Shouldn’t Fear (opens the original)
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I’ve run six campaigns and worked on plenty of others, state and federal. I understand how, during a campaign season, nearly every consultant or politician advises you to avoid making statements — like the plague — that can be construed or manipulated into making voters think you like taxes.Iowa candidates who say “no” to the proposed Iowa constitutional amendment will face an immediate response: the opposing campaign will have a 30-second ad ready before you’ve finished the sentence, claiming y
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