Chet Culver News

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver's office took a close interest in the state's film promotion efforts long before questions about spending and bookkeeping prompted the governor to freeze the program, e-mails obtained by The Associated Press indicate.

Officials with the state workers union AFSCME said Monday that they have reached an agreement with the state to save 479 AFSCME jobs that were to be cut during the latest round of budget cuts.

On the day state agency heads had to submit their mandated budget cut plans to the governor, I happened to be talking to Andrew Allen.

Last month, Gov. Chet Culver ordered a 10 percent across-the-board cut in the state budget, a percentage more than twice as large as any such cut in the state's recorded history.

Any Nebraskans worth their corn husks will tell you who needs to start at quarterback for the Husker football team.

Senate Republican Leader Paul McKinley announced Friday that he is withdrawing from the campaign for governor.

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver says $150 million in federal funds will be made available for the purchase of 1,352 homes damaged in last year's floods.

The disastrous mismanagement of Iowa's state budget by Gov. Chet Culver and the Democrats who control both houses of the state Legislature will hit the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship especially hard.

Washington, D.C. - James Vincent of Liberty Center, Ia., came to the nation's capital to remember World War II and found himself recruited for a new mission: pen pal to the governor's son.

While he leads comfortably in recent Florida U.S. Senate polls, establishment Republican governor Charlie Crist, a centrist in today's political dictionary, faces a feisty underdog in Marco Rubio - a darling of the right who conservative pundits are peddling at every opportunity.

Governor Chet Culver will meet with hundreds of Iowa veterans Wednesday at the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. after they arrive on their "Honor Flight." The veterans will be visiting Washington on a trip organized by Central Iowa Honor Flight, a program that takes veterans to see the nation's capital and the monuments to their service at ...

Michigan's governor warned Tuesday of a possible 20 percent cut in state spending next year, a draconian step after billions in cuts since 2003 have already dented police and fire services, pushed schools toward insolvency and reduced oversight of prison inmates.

A year before the 2010 election, five Republican candidates for governor are crisscrossing Iowa while a sixth has hired widely known staffers but hasn't committed to seeking the nomination.

As Iowa agencies work to dig the state out of a nearly half-billion dollar budget hole, Pat Murphy says Gov.

After many local battles, the party won the majority in the U.S. House and Senate in 2006.

Roxanne Conlin and Terry Branstad? Didn't we see this movie a long time ago, possibly in grainy black and white? And they're back, running for office? Again? Conlin no doubt would do well as a United States senator, probably being able to speak without notes when she argues in opposition to tort reform.

Agency heads differ on cuts DES MOINES -- Some state agency heads say they won't take a pay cut and others haven't decided whether to abide by Gov.

Newton, Ia. - The mood was tense and somber at the Newton Correctional Facility during Thursday's first shift change, as rank-and-file prison workers await the outcome of union negotiations that could determine their fates.

Gov. Chet Culver announced Wednesday that he would furlough thousands of state workers and push to renegotiate union contracts so he can lessen budget cuts for some agencies.

Plans to institute massive layoffs in two state departments will go forward unless union leadership agrees to reopen their contracts in order to find savings, Gov.