Cedar Rapids woman fears for husband amid Cairo protests
Alida Ogren-Gunderson of Cedar Rapids worries for Hassan Selim, her husband protesting Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt. She recalls communication outages and gunfire during the Cairo demonstrations, while Selim praises peaceful Egyptian unity and seek for change.
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Ogren-Gunderson
Cedar Rapids
Hosni Mubarak
Egypt
Hassan Selim
Hassan
Ogren- Gunderson
Iowa
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Cairo
Alida Ogren-Gunderson
Ousted justice disputes ouster campaign and politics claim
Former Iowa Supreme Court Justice Michael Streit argued at the University of Iowa Law School that the effort to remove him and two colleagues distorted the appellate process. He said judges interpret the constitution, uphold the law, and that politics did not drive their rulings in the Varnum v Brien case.
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Iowa City
Iowa Supreme Court
Michael Streit
Streit
University of Iowa Law School
American Judicature Society
Vanderbilt Law School
Brian Fitzpatrick
Varnum
Fitzpatrick
State Judicial Nominating Commission
Iowa City teen Zach Wahls goes viral over gay family
Iowa City student Zach Wahls testifies before the Iowa House urging rejection of a constitutional amendment banning same sex unions. His speech and family story have drawn national media, with more than 560000 YouTube views and coverage by Ellen DeGeneres and MSNBC. His family says they lead a normal, neighborly life.
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Iowa City
Zach Wahls
Wahls
Iowa House of Representatives
University of Iowa
Iowa
Ellen DeGeneres
House
Iowa Senate
II Mascher
Clowaty
Branstad backs partial preschool payments for low income
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad proposes a voucher system replacing the statewide preschool program. He says grants should exclude families above 250 to 300 percent of poverty and requires some parent payment, $10 to $20 monthly, with a draft plan in 1-2 weeks.
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Ed Tibbetts
Quad City Times
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Branstad
Quad City
House
Senate
Branstad Granddaughter Attends State Paid Preschool
Iowa governor Terry Branstad faces scrutiny as his four year old granddaughter attends a state funded preschool program he has argued should be limited to low income families. Her father Eric Branstad works with Iowans for Tax Relief a tax cutting nonprofit that lobbies for fewer taxes. No comment was provided by the family and Tim Albrecht the governor's spokesman declined to comment.
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Terry Branstad
Branstad
Eric Branstad
Iowans For Tax Relief
Tim Albrecht
Feds seek seizure of Cedar Rapids home in fraud case
Federal prosecutors move to seize the Cedar Rapids residence of Donald Washburn over alleged fraudulent schemes to raise more than 100000 from investors by funding fake gold and iron mining ventures. Washburn denies wrongdoing and says the home is owned by his wife.
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