GOP Leaders Back Park Repair Plan
House Republican leaders support using excess gambling profits to clear a 15.2 million backlog of park and recreation repairs. The Restore the Outdoors proposal would tap 5 million from extra gambling profits and 12.7 million unencumbered funds to solicit bids by March and finish the 10 year backlog next year.
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Rod Boshart
Gazette
Des Moines
House
GOP
State Department of Natural Resources
Ron Corbett
Cedar Rapids
Brent Siegrist
Council Bluffs
DNR
Iowa
Corbett
Larry Murphy
D-Oelwein
Senate Appropriations Committee
Murphy
Terry Branstad
States to get 50 quarter designs in new coin bill
Rep. Michael Castle proposes replacing the single Washington quarter with 50 state designs. Delaware would lead, issuing five designs per year for a decade, while every state could co design with Mint and Fine Arts Commission. The reverse would remain uniform.
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Washington
George Washington
Delaware
Castle
House
Bureau of the Mint
The
Fine Arts Commission
Weakened Bertha Aims at Carolina Shores
Hurricane Bertha, reduced to 80 mph winds, is set to hit Myrtle Beach and sweep the Carolina coast. Evacuations include about 100000 in North Carolina and 150000 in South Carolina. coastal tourism and operations at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base are disrupted.
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Carolina Shores
Sunset Beach
N.C
Bertha
Carolina
Mary Ann Stibbe
Sylvania
Ohio
Myrtle Beach
S.C
Hurricane Center
Jerry
Jarrell
North Carolina
South Carolina
Ocean Boulevard
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Goldsboro
Savannah
Owner appeals death sentence for two neighbor dogs
Harmon's two husky and shepherd mix dogs, age 3½, were sentenced to death by Linn County Health Department for killing a neighbor's Siamese cat and causing fear among six nearby families. Harmon will appeal Tuesday to the Linn County Board of Supervisors, then in District Court if needed. Neighbors described the dogs as frightening and always loose despite Harmon's claim of gentleness.
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Zazelte News
Linn County Health Department
Marsha Harmon
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Harmon
Morgan
Mike
Lynn Evans
Harmons
Cottage Grove Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Health Department
Linn
Photographers Tade and Stewart Trek Boundary Waters Wilderness
Gazette photographers Mark Tade and Chris Stewart ventured into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area between Minnesota and Ontario, returning with a striking collection of photographs. The item notes a 6 foot 4 inch sophomore to be Amy Herrig, a formidable basketball player, as the first woman drafted to the Prime Time League.
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World Gazette
Mark Tade
Chris Stewart
Boundary Waters
Minnesota
Ontario
Amy Herrig
Volunteers Scrape Paint at Grant Wood’s Alma Mater
Ramblin 1B notes Volunteers spent a day scraping paint from the Antioch School once attended by painter Grant Wood. Also Czech study costs little at $10 for the Czech School for Children this summer. Details on 1B.
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Antioch
Grant Wood
Regents propose controls on off campus degree programs
Regents staffers urge a new policy requiring approval for any degree program with at least half the credits offered off campus to avoid unnecessary duplication. ISU preceded by a Cedar Rapids degree program, but university leaders oppose tight controls, saying state committees already prevent duplication and distance learning serves Iowa. The regents vote on the proposal in Ames.
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Lyle Muller
Johnson County
Iowa City
Iowa
Regents
R. Wayne Richey
Richey
Pittman
University of Iowa
Ames
Iowa State University
Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids
ISU Engineering College
ISU
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