Bet on Cash-Payout Gaming Faces Iowa Legislative Hurdles
Iowa lawmakers struggle to replace TouchPlay with cash-payout video games amid budget pressures. Rep. Brian Quirk notes slow interest despite potential $30 million yearly revenue. bar owners like Charlie Faulkner push for rapid deployment to aid business. Proposals hinge on state approval and quick setup.
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Gazette ES Movies
Iowa
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New Hampton
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Cedar Rapids
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Kirkwood to Close Lincoln Center Amid Budget Cuts
Kirkwood Community College will relocate Lincoln Center programs including GED ESL and adult education to a downtown area, likely the Kirkwood Resource Center. The building at 912 18th Ave. SW will close by December 31 to save about 80 thousand dollars and support a 3.5 million dollar budget reduction through 2011, including staff reductions.
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Lincoln Center
Kirkwood
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Kirkwood Resource Center
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Kirkwood Board of Trustees
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Death toll rises as Haiti quake leaves vast devastation
Haiti faces a staggering 200000 dead and 1.5 million homeless six days after the quake. Survivors die in streets as looting erupts while doctors plead for aid. The world pledges relief as 2000 U.S. Marines arrive and ex president Bill Clinton visits as U.N. envoy.
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Haiti
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Escaped gang members exploit police void in crisis
Eastern Iowa medics head to Haiti as search teams pull buried survivors from ruins. Amid growing unmet needs, surgeons plead for anesthesia and tools to free crush victims while survivors crowd buses leaving the area amid looting reports.
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Iowa
Haiti
Taliban attacks paralyze Kabul center for hours
Taliban militants wearing hazardous vests staged a daylight assault in central Kabul near the presidential palace. Afghan forces and NATO advisers retook control after about five hours of gun battles and explosions. Twelve people were killed, seven of them attackers, officials said.
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Associated Press
Kabul
NATO
RibFest ends after failed talks in Cedar Rapids clash
In Cedar Rapids the RibFest rivalry with the BBQ Roundup ends as a compromise talks fail. Mayor Ron Corbett calls the standoff messier than eating ribs while the Freedom Festival cancels its RibFest, leaving the BBQ Roundup as the city’s traditional fundraising event.
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Cedar Rapids
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