A northwest Iowa banker says there’s too much red tape in federal disaster recovery programs. “Disaster victims are in no position to complete that excessive paperwork,” Gus Barker, president and CEO of First Community Bank in Newell, said this afternoon during testimony at a U.S. Senate Small Business Committee hearing. Barker told senators about helping […]
Former western Iowa chamber exec accused of theft
The former director of a western Iowa chamber of commerce faces four felony charges related to theft and fraud. The former