Regents ask lawmakers for ISU biofuels building

ERIN JORDAN
REGISTER STAFF WRITER


The Iowa Board of Regents this morning unanimously approved a plan to ask the Iowa Legislature for $28 million to build a biorenewable fuels facility at Iowa State University.
 
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Parks funding is topic for meeting on Friday
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REGISTER STAFF WRITER

A committee created by the Iowa Legislature to find steady cash for parks and natural resources projects will meet Friday in West Des Moines.
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Ideas mixed on zoo growing into park

'Don't let Blank Park Zoo take over our most natural setting,' a boy, 12, pleads.

By JASON CLAYWORTH
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
 
More than three dozen people spoke publicly Monday about a plan that would allow Blank Park Zoo to expand into Fort Des Moines Park.
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