One bluefin tuna weighing 489 pounds has been sold for the equivalent of around 1 point 7 million dollars, setting a new record in Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market. The record setting price almost tripled the previous record set by the same buyer, Kiyoshi Kimura in the same market last year.
The most populous city in Iowa is Des Moines, with over 210,000 residents, followed by Cedar Rapids (130,405) and Davenport (102,582). Iowa now has a predominantly urban population concentrated in these areas, with 61% of the total population living in urban areas by 2000.
Sioux City's market area has the highest percentage of people (24 percent) in Iowa working in three job categories with the largest shares of people working at or near the minimum wage, according to an analysis compiled for the Register by Liesl Eathington, a scientist for the Iowa Community Indicators Program at ISU.