Iowa officials weigh Everclear ban amid college drinking concerns
University of Iowa leaders and medical staff say banning Everclear would not curb underage or binge drinking. They warn high proof liquor remains dangerous, noting a recent Drake University hazing incident and Everclear's 151 proof ranking on Iowa’s Hot 100 list.
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Owa City
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Everclear
Tom Baker
Drake University
Des Moines
Iazett Everclear
State Alcohol Division
Senate votes down GOP health bill amendment 58 to 42
The Senate defeated a Republican bid to strip $460 billion in Medicare cuts from the Democratic health care package. Iowa senators backed party lines as McCain proposed sending the bill back to committee to remove spending cuts, while an earlier amendment guaranteed mammogram access for women under 50 and barred co pay for preventive tests. The bill would extend coverage to about 31 million people and curb practices denying coverage for pre existing conditions, with projected costs around $1 trillion over ten years.
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Senate
John McCain
R-Ariz
Iowa
Congressional Budget Office
Auto disassembly lines proposed at White House jobs summit
Cedar Rapids businessman Bill Rossey of Midamar Corp. urged a private sector plan to create jobs by deploying mobile automotive disassembly lines to reclaim copper chrome steel and other materials from scrapped vehicles. He argued this would reduce oil imports by sourcing steel from salvage yards and cited wheel lugs engines and transmissions as rich material sources. The discussion focused on retooling workers for such salvage operations amid retraining limits.
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Cedar Rapids
White House
Barack Obama
Bill Rossey
Midamar Corp
United States
Rossey
First flood buyout offers go out in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids city hall has mailed 55 of up to 1,300 flood buyout offers to property owners. The letters from ProSource Technologies Inc. detail offers for riverfront properties to be razed and turned into green space with FEMA funds, while farther properties will use Community Development Block Grants. Some owners have signed, initiating a 30 to 90 day closing window, though others criticized the process as complex and opaque.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Jennifer Pratt
Rita Rasmussen
ProSource Technologies Inc
Minneapolis
Cedar River
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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