Iowa still has doubts on teacher merit pay

Iowa is no closer to paying teachers more if their students fare better in the classroom, despite nearly a decade of studying the idea and a new pot of money to help pay for it.

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Obama: ‘We’re on right track’

FORT MADISON -- We’re on the right track -- and Fort Madison is leading the way.

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Community remembers loved one two years after his unsolved death

Appanoose County Sheriff Gary Anderson and a business owner living in Mystic also contribute to the story.

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Obama meets with locals, highlights economic struggle

President Obama focused on jobs during Tuesday’s swing through southeast Iowa, and said he saw signs of a bright future ahead.


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Local man gives President tour of his farm

After President Barack Obama left the POET Biorefining Ethanol Plant at Macon to head to an event in Quincy, he had one more stop to make. He sat down at the kitchen table of Palmyra-area farmer Lowell Schachtsiek.

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Obama speaks in Quincy

"It's good to be home." That was one of the first things out of President Obama Wednesday afternoon as he took the stage at the Oakley Lindsay Center in Quincy.

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Missouri volunteers change lives in Haiti 

MILOT, HAITI -- I recently traveled to a rural hospital in northern Haiti that has been serving the people of the town of Milot for more than 20 years.

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