Westdale Mall purchase plan collapses in Cedar Rapids
John Frew and Willow Creek Ventures withdrew their bid to buy and redevelop Westdale Mall after failing to resolve about 60 tenant leases and the out of state owners declined more time. The plan had required a full mall closing on purchase day except anchor tenants J C Penney and Yonkers and the vacant Von Maur space.
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Rick Smith
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Westdale Mall
John Frew
Frew
Willow Creek Ventures LLC
J.C. Penney and Younkers
von Maur
Unhappy Iowans form own governments in Wheatland
In Wheatland a milk promo shows coins minted before 1965 to mock price inflation and promote the Republics of Iowa and the United States. Shannon, a former Senate hopeful, leads the Iowa Republic as part of a broader movement challenging the U.S. government.
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Rodney Lange
Wheatland Grocery & Meats
United States
Iowa
Wheatland
Lange
London
Republic
America
United States Corporation
Erin Jordan
The
Gazette Heatland
Lowdon
United States of America
Randi Shannon
Shannon
Mike Huckabee
U.S
Iowa delegation to mix State Fair with campaign duties
Iowa lawmakers including Rep. Dave Loebsack Rep Bruce Braley Sen Chuck Grassley and Sen Tom Harkin plan a brief August recess visit to the State Fair. They will sample pork at the Iowa Pork Producers tent speak at the Des Moines Register soap box and take in the fair scenes as part of a busy campaign and congressional schedule.
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Gazette
Des Moines
Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Bruce Braley
Iowa
Pork Producers
Fairgrounds
Des Moines Register
Harkin
Congress
Washington
Loebsack
Symposium on teacher leadership ends with audience vote to fire
At a Des Moines education summit about two thirds through the day, about 700 attendees voted by show of hands to fire a hypothetical teacher, Ms. Right from ABC High School in Ohio, after an overhead evaluation was presented by Toledo educators.
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Mike Wiser
Gazette
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Right
ABC High School
Ohio
Toledo
School leaders discuss salaries amid upheaval in Toledo
A woman in the audience asks if she is done as Cal Lawrence, former Toledo Federation of Teachers president, says the district has fired or removed about 400 teachers in 31 years including about 100 tenured staff, framing it as a culture change and ongoing effort.
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Cal Lawrence
Toledo Federation of Teachers
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