Iowa may swap tax to fund underground tank cleanup
Iowa lawmakers consider replacing the diminution tax with about twelve million dollars from the motor vehicle use tax to finance cleanup of leaking underground storage tanks. The Underground Storage Tank Board aims to test constitutionality while exploring alternatives amid rising tank counts and cost estimates.
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Iowa Newspaper Association
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Road Fund Protection Foundation
Harkin presses plan to boost rural DEA forces
Senator Tom Harkin urges six more DEA agents for Iowa and rural states, arguing more police and treatment are needed. He cites $18 million federal funding for Iowa drug enforcement this year and proposes a $20 million rural enforcement boost plus a federal rural drug policy coordinator.
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Sioux City
Tom Harkin
Iowa
Drug Enforcement Administration
America
Harkin
Senate
Sioux City West High School
DEA
Rural America
Woodbury
Tom Mullin
UNI leads $50000 Eisenhower grant to boost science teaching
Louis Finland and a UNI team win a federal Eisenhower Grant to run Project INTENSE a 15 week three credit course for fifty elementary teachers. The program will train teachers in hands on science activities to rewrite curricula and test new ideas with students.
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Iowa Newspaper Association
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Louis Finland
Malcolm Price Laboratory School
University of Northern Iowa
Iowa Board of Regents
UNI
Finland
Local talent sought for films in Davenport
The Iowa Film Office named Dennis Hitchcock of Circa 21 Productions to handle local casting for 57 roles and extras for a Bix Beiderbecke film to be shot in Davenport this spring. Preproduction starts mid April with 7 to 8 weeks of filming. Actors are invited to send resumes and photos to Circa 21 BIX in Rock Island Illinois.
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DES Movies
Iowa Department of Economic Development
Iowa
Dennis Hitchcock
Circa '21 Productions
Bix Beiderbecke
Davenport
Pupi Avati
Antonio Avati
Hitchcock
Mesquakie Bingo Marks Anniversary
Mesquakie Bingo in Tama marks its third anniversary with four days of prizes and games. Doors open at 5 p.m. today through Monday. Prizes include up to 5000 dollars jackpots and a MegaBingo chance at 500000 dollars. A new Mesquakie logo gift shop opens. The venue has paid out over 5 million dollars in prizes and provides payroll over 510000 dollars for 80 employees.
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TAMA
Homer Bear Jr
Galena dealer sentenced to 30 months in federal prison
Joseph Drapeau of Galena Illinois was sentenced in Cedar Rapids Iowa by Judge David Hansen to 30 months for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine. He also pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns and received a suspended sentence on that count. He must serve four years probation and perform 250 hours of community service and forfeit the value of his Galena property.
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Galena
Ill
Joseph Drapeau
U.S. District Court
Cedar Rapids
David Hansen
Drapeau
Hansen
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