City to refinance Five Seasons Center debt with new bonds
City Treasurer Ed Burrell said proceeds from a 4.975 million general obligation bond issue will be invested in government securities and placed in escrow to cover the 6.09 million still owed on the Five Seasons Center. TIF districts will fund principal and interest on the new bonds and earlier issues as refinanced, with the city noting higher interest but lower principal.
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Ed Burrell
Iowa
Five Seasons
Ha) Schaefer
City Finantea Ramminadianar
Bara Uwvearrareoev
Dick Hogan
Sage Sae Hal
Five Seasons Center
Schaefer
Burrell
Down in the gutter the truth about drugs and loss
A speaker recalls a life ruined by drug addiction after saving a choking child and his own son dying within hours. He warns that most youth suffer drug influence, shares his nervous breakdown, thoughts of harming family, and urges adults to face an epidemic of drug use in schools.
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Toma
Toma warns students marijuana is a killer and chemical danger
The speaker cites marijuana as a killer with 421 chemicals and dangers to brain memory and reproductive organs. He shares a nephew’s 28 year addiction, $100,000 in treatment, and urges teens to stay straight know the risks show love and have saintly patience to help others.
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Toma
County defends inmate phone system changes in court
Linn County officials say a new jail inmate phone system complies with a court order and seek a possible order modification. The filing argues the February change cut costs and improved call control without charging inmates or restricting access to lawyers, while inmates seek contempt sanctions.
Bottoms in critical condition in California hospital
Special to The Gazette Santa Ana California Michael Bottoms former Cedar Rapids resident accused of murdering his wife was listed in critical condition this morning in the jail ward of a Santa Ana hospital after a head injury in a common holding cell at the Orange County Courthouse. Sheriff Lt Wyatt Hart said Bottoms was found unconscious at 1 30 p m Monday He said the only mark was a bump on his forehead and the investigation continues He noted Bottoms did not appear to have caused the injury himself Bottoms and about 10 inmates in the holding cell were fed at noon but when summoned to court at 1 30 p m he was non responsive He was lying on the floor in his own vomit Paramedics were called and Bottoms was rushed to a nearby hospital In January a Superior Court jury deadlocked 11 to 1 in favor of finding Bottoms guilty of murdering his 19 year old wife last June Bottoms contends his wife Virginia also a former Cedar Rapids resident fell on his knife during an argument near Disneyland
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Santa Ana
Calif
Michael Bottoms
Cedar Rapids
Orange County
Sheriff's
Wyatt Hart
Bottoms
Hart
Superior Court
Thieu Resigns as South Vietnam President in 1975
On this date in 1975 Nguyen Van Thieu stepped down as president of South Vietnam denouncing the United States as untrustworthy. He was succeeded by Tran Van Huong who prepared to begin peace talks with the northern communists.
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Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
United States
Tran van Huong
Burglary arrest in Iowa City tied to meter thefts
Off duty Iowa City detective Ted Bahns, 24, was arrested Sunday night for allegedly stealing change from parking meters on North Capitol Street. Detective Paul Sueppel alerted police after seeing tampering. Bahns carried $54.57 in coins. He was charged with burglary, burglary tools possession, and fourth degree theft, arraigned Monday and released without bail.
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Iowa City
Ted Bahns
S. Johnson St
North Capitol Street
Bahns
Paul Sueppel
Public hearing sought on IE rate hike in Cedar Rapids
Citizens for Community Improvement plans a Cedar Rapids public hearing on Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. rate increase. Elaine Collins says petitions will circulate in two weeks to gather support. IE proposes an average residential bill rise of 4.87 dollars monthly and a 13.3 percent increase, effective May 21 or, if blocked, in June with Ottumwa plant startup.
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Citizens For
Cedar Rapids
Collins
Nue
Iowa Commerce Commission
Ottumwa
CCI
Iowa
Cedar Rapids man sues Linn County over double arrest
Cedar Rapids resident Damein Collins, 22, sues Linn County for 30000 claiming the county attorney's office caused his two arrests for the same theft. He seeks 5000 in the suit for civil rights violations plus 25000 punitive damages. The second arrest followed an unrelated arrest of another suspect. The first charge was dismissed after the second arrest, and the second charge was dismissed when witnesses failed to testify.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Damein Collins
Linn District Court
Collins
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