Gov. Branstad announced on Wednesday that MidAmerican Energy Company will make a $1.9 billion investment in Iowa targeted for wind energy projects, making it the largest-ever economic investment in the state of Iowa.

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• How Education Reform Effects Oskaloosans
• Legislative Update on Property Tax and Healthcare
• Citywide Cleanup Ends with Success
• WPU Students "Break the Wall"

Along with education reform, health care and property tax reform are two other issues that are still being discussed at the Iowa Legislature. With the 110-day adjournment set for Friday, May 3, there is still a long way to go for both the Senate and the House to come to an agreement on these issues.

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• Officials Hold a RAGBRAI Town Hall Meeting
• Oskaloosa's Housing Market is Examined
• Non-Profits Consider a Summer Food Program for Kids
• WPU Students Start Cyber Bullying Campaign

The city of Oskaloosa's spring clean-up starts Monday, April 29. Residents have already begun putting unwanted items out for pick up.

The submissions are in and Oskaloosans can now vote for the newest restaurant concept that will fill the former Dr. Salami's location.

Residents have experienced wild weather this week. On monday the temperature reached a high of 82 degrees only to fall down to 31 degrees by Friday. Coupled with precipitation, Oskaloosans woke up to snow on the ground Friday morning.

Bulky televisions, rusty bikes and other rubbish littered the streets of Oskaloosa this week as part of the annual "City Wide Clean-UP". The free initiative kept city workers busy clearing curbs and hauling away waste, but as CRI's Jason Madison tells us some residents were about to turn one man's trash is another man's treasure.

According to the Iowa Association of Realtors home sales in Iowa have been on the rise, and the same is true for Oskaloosa. According to Broker Chris Roach of Hawkeye Realty, Oskaloosa has seen an 8% increase in the number of homes sold this year compared to this same time last year. I met up with a local realtor to learn more about Oskaloosa's housing market.

Healthy habits made by an elementary school class have turned into a five-hundred-dollar cash prize. Ms. Megan VandeVoort's class of 1st graders participated in the "Live Health Iowa Kids" ten-week wellness challenge from January till April. That required recording thirty to sixty minutes of activity each day in addition to eating healthy.