Reynolds pushes Branstad water quality plan in Iowa tour
Gov. Branstad and Lt. Gov. Reynolds promote a water quality plan to extend the one cent sales tax for school infrastructure. Funds would be split with a 20.7 billion for schools and 4.7 billion for environmental efforts amid a lawsuit linking nitrates to farm drainage. Reynolds tours Cedar Rapids Waterloo Dubuque and Quad Cities to build support.
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Cedar Rapids
Terry Branstad
Kim Reynolds
Iowa
Des Moines
Quad Cities
Reynolds
Iowa lawmakers wary of Branstad water quality plan
Republican leaders will consider Gov. Branstad's proposal to extend the 1 percent school infrastructure sales tax for 20 years and divert part of the revenue to water quality. Democrats express hesitation over protective language. leaders say they will explore funding options and may enact their own measures.
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Des Moines
Terry Branstad
Statehouse
Senate
Mike Gronstal
Council Bluffs
Bronstad
Linda Upmeyer
R-Clear Lake
Heat expected to return today at Linn County Courthouse and Jail
A burst pipe caused a heating outage at the Linn County Courthouse and Jail in Cedar Rapids. By midweek the jail had heat restored with two boilers, while two courthouse boilers remained offline. Diesel heat was aiding the first and second floor rotunda, staff wore coats, and repairs were underway with an Architect hired to assess damage and a $10 000 allocation approved.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Jim Houser
Houser
May’s Island
Carroll Edmondson
6Th Judicial District Court
Board of Supervisors
Multivehicle crash on icy Cedar Rapids roads injures officer
A Cedar Rapids police officer was injured responding to a seven-vehicle crash on Edgewood Road SW after icy conditions. A squad car collided with a northbound Jeep Cherokee on the Edgewood Road bridge. One officer hospitalized for non life threatening injuries. Five other vehicles involved with no injuries reported. In Marengo, Bethany C Clark 18 and her 2 year old son Roran P Clark died in a frost slick single vehicle crash on Highway 212 west of Marengo. Their car burned after leaving the road and entering a ditch embankment.
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Cedar Rapids
Greg Buelow
Edgewood Road
Buelow
Margeno
Belle Plaine
Iowa County
Marengo
Highway 212
Bethany C. Clark
Roran P. Clark
Clark
Sheriff's Office
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