Iowans Consider Gas Tax Increase Up To Eight Cents
Iowa legislators debate a fuel levy rise to fund highway and bridge needs. Senate leaders back a minimum 5 cent hike with potential to reach 8 cents per gallon, arguing the tax is overdue and would raise about 21 million dollars per penny.
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Rod Boshart
Des Moines
Bureau
Senate
Jack Kibbie
D-Emmersburg
Iowa
Tom Rielly
D-Oskaloosa
Senate Transportation Committee
Rielly
Web interviews emerge as college recruiting tool
Cornell College uses webcam interviews to assess applicants reducing travel. A Denver high school senior and Iowa counselor officials from Upper Iowa University and Coe College discuss expanding video interviews, with international applicants highlighted.
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Diane Heldt
the Gazette
Vernon
Darrell Aaron
Aaron
Cornell College
Denver
Cornell
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Marion top winner in Cedar Rapids road stimulus plan
A $3.5 million Cedar Rapids resurfacing and an $8.5 million I 80 project in Iowa and Johnson counties may proceed with federal stimulus funding. Iowa DOT released a $257 million project list, retaining two thirds for state roads and one third for counties. The Corridor MPO selected six quick-start Marion projects including a 1.325 million extension of 35th Street to Lucore Road and a 450 thousand traffic signal project at Armar Drive.
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the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Johnson Counties
Iowa Department of Transportation
Dena Gray Fisher
DOT
Federal Highway Administration
Iowa City
Johnson County
Corridor Metropolitan Planning Organization
Marion
35Th Street
Lucore Road
Armar Drive
Shovel ready county projects proposed for stimulus funds Iowa
County projects proposed for federal economic stimulus include paving and resurfacing on major routes. Items cover Benton Highway 30, I 80 resurfacing, Clayton Highway 52, Fayette Bridge deck overlay on Highway 3, Johnson I 80 and 218 resurfacing, Linn Marion traffic signals and turn lanes, Cedar Rapids intersections, Poweshiek I 80 eastbound resurfacing, Tama Highway 30 resurfacing east of Tama to Benton County.
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Benton
Tama County
Cedar
Clayton
Guttenberg
Fayette
Gundlach Creek
Iowa
Johnson
Riverside Drive
Linn
Marion
35Th Street
Lucore Road
22Nd Street
10Th Street
Cedar Rapids housing study foresees flood losses and new units
A Cedar Rapids consultant forecasts about 1,000 flood damaged homes lost and 400 new housing units needed to absorb the deficit. Mary Bujold of Maxfield Research notes higher apartment vacancies may reduce the required new units. Floods in 2008 and job losses likely influence turnover and migration patterns in the city.
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Rick Smith
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Mary Bujold
Maxfield Research Inc
Minneapolis
Bujold
Laura O’leary
Landlords of
Linn
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D-Des Moines
Transportation, Infrastructure & Capitals
D-Emmetsburg
Him Slosiarek
Wade House
Mount Vernon
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Editoria Farm
Gazette Online
C.R
Maxfield Research
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