Iowa City hotel-motel tax gains City Council approval
Iowa City approves final reading of a hotel motel tax ordinance. the 5 percent levy starts April 1 in Iowa City and July 1 in Coralville, with 25 percent of revenues to go to the convention bureau. Projections vary by city and depend on a downtown hotel, with funds slated for general funds later.
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Ann Mittman
Johnson County
Iowa City
Coralville
Coralville Convention Bureau
Rate increase set at $1,337,000 for IPC cities
Guttenberg and 15 other Iowa cities reached a settlement with Interstate Power Co over a rate rise totaling 1.337 million dollars. The agreement follows federal hearing discussions and includes a 17 month moratorium on new filings and a 23.4 year amortization of taxes. Cities affected include Alta Vista Bellevue Fairbank Fredericksburg Graf ton Independence Lawler McGregor Readlyn Sabula Strawberry Point and Guttenberg.
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Tom Lebak
Interstate Power Co
Clayton
Lebak
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
IPC
Commission
Iowa
Alta Vista
Bellevue
Fairbank
Fredericksburg
Grafton
Independence
Lawler
McGregor
Readlyn
Sabula
Strawberry Point
Police hunt suspect in two knife point robberies
Police searched for a white male in his 20s, about 5 9, stocky, brown winter jacket and ski mask after two knife point robberies. One victim, Rhonda Parmenter, 19, was grabbed on 16th Street SE. A second crime at Joyce's Crafts, Etc. yielded about 341 dollars. Suspect fled on foot. (Continues with burglaries and other local notices.)
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Rhonda Parmenter
Fifth Ave
16Th Street
Parmenter
Joyce's Crafts
First Ave
Hospital staff elects Iowa City radiologist as president
Dr. James J. Gardner, a radiologist at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, was elected president of the hospital's medical staff. The 234-bed facility named Gardner to lead the medical staff and oversee clinical standards.
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Iowa City
Mercy Hospital
Johnson County
Sandra J. Throm
Walter
Tiffany Tamara
Muscatine County
Douglas Johnson
Johnson
Sandra Throm
Sandra
James J. Gardner
Elderly man fined in Prairie du Chien grocery scheme
Albert E. Tesar, 69, of Marquette, was fined 122 for using a bogus number card to pick up groceries for another person in the drive-up lane at a Prairie du Chien store. He was arrested December 22 and faced the meddling with another's property charge in Crawford County court.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Crawford County
Albert E. Tesar
Jail considers fish eye lenses after two inmate crises
Washington County jail officials weigh installing wide angle lenses on 10 to 11 cameras after two attempted personal crises in eight days. Sheriff Yale Jarvis says the Cedar Rapids youth’s near suicide may have been preventable with broader coverage, while the Darrah incident would not have been affected. The 21-bed jail, built in the 1960s, is rated excellent by the state.
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Robert Brandyberry
Richard Thompson
Oakland County
Mich
Thompson
Karen Larsen
Robert
Elizabeth Chase
Whitney Marie Chase
Larsens
Brandyberry
Chase
School of the Prophets
Sterling
Assemblies of God Church
Washington
Iowa
Washington County
Yale Jarvis
the Gazette
Thomas Darrah
Brighton
Darrah
Cedar Rapids
Riverside
Jarvis
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