Iowa Tasers need clearer training and standards
The Gazette editorial urges a legislative review of Taser use in Iowa amid lawsuits alleging excessive force. It notes eight Iowa cases in six years, including incidences involving mental disabilities and epilepsy, and calls for state wide training standards and required instruction at police academies.
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Des Moines Register
Cers
Gerald Meyers
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Sion
Criminal Investigation
Tom Courtney
Burlington
Dr Marian Nette Miller-Meeks and Iowa food stamp claim
A Cedar Rapids reader questions Dr Marian Nette Miller-Meeks for citing a food stamp claim that Mountain Dew is Iowa’s top item. The letter discusses food aid politics and critiques state and federal responses to poverty and corrections. The writer cites Linn County Jail issues and condemns rodeo cruelty with reference to animal abuse.
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State of
Iowa
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Iowa Department of Public Health
Senate
Chuck Grassley
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Salvation Army
Boy Scouts
Homan
Afscme
Parole Board
Charles A. Trobaugh
Linn County Correctional Center
Cedar Rapids
Huckabee skewers war on women at GOP meeting
Kathleen Parker notes Mike Huckabee argued Republicans are fighting a war for women not against them. He challenged Democrats’ framing of a war on women, criticizes calls for government contraceptive mandates, and urges women to stand up to dismiss the notion.
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6Th Judicial District Department of Corrections
Gary Hinzman
Afscme
Danny Homan
Homan
Huckabee
Arkansas
Republican National Committee
America
Uncle Sugar
Sugar
Dr. Freud
Rush Limbaugh
Sandra Fluke
Fluke
Limbaugh
Uncle Sam
Preacher
Political ads defamation case in Iowa Supreme Court
The 2010 Bertrand Mullin race highlighted defamation claims over ad portrayals of Mullin and Bertrand's past work for Takeda. Bertrand won the election by 222 votes and a later jury award was reduced. the case now seeks Supreme Court review amid First Amendment concerns and media scrutiny.
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Rick Bertrand
Sioux City
Rick Mullin
Iowa Democratic Party
Bertrand
Mullin
Bertrand “Put Profits Ahead of Children’s Health
Takeda North America
Takeda Pharmaceutical
FDA
Iowa Supreme Court
Statehouse
Mike Wiser
Thomas Waterman
Quad-City Times
Mark Cady
Congress
Justin Bieber
Supreme Court
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