Clean water starts upstream in Cedar Rapids watershed
Roy Hesemann outlines Cedar Rapids Cedar River watershed work with farmers and partners to cut nitrates. The Cedar River Source Water Partnership supports edge-of-field practices like saturated buffers bioreactors and no till with cover crops. Data show reduced nitrates from fields and ongoing outreach.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Minnesota
Iowa River
Jim O’connell
O’connell
Linn County Soil and Water Conservation District
Robert Broulik
Iowa Soybean Association
Iowa Soybean Association Conservation Agronomist
Evan Brehm
Big Beautiful Bill shields Iowans from tax increases
Pete Sepp and John Hendrickson argue that President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill extends and makes permanent the TCJA provisions, tying Iowa closely to federal rules through rolling conformity. They warn ongoing federal debt and possible cuts to Medicaid and SNAP demand careful state budgeting and cautious policy, while noting benefits to individuals and small businesses.
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Donald Trump
Congress
Iowa
Kim Reynolds
Trump
New York
California
Pete Sepp
National Taxpayers Union
John Hendrickson
Iowans For Tax Relief
Waterloo Marine Corps Corporal Powers Memorial Tribute
John Dekhane honors Cpl. Robert James Powers of Waterloo Iowa a U S Marine and combat engineer who served in Guadalcanal and returned to the United States only to end his life in 1948 on a USS voyage home The tribute recalls his Dec 19 1915 birth aids mothers passing in 1941 and his inscription at the Honolulu Memorial Courts of the Missing for PTSD and wartime trauma.
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Elma
Iowa
Robert
Anna Agnes Powers
Toledo High School
Waterloo
West Third St
U.S. Marine Corps
Baker Company
First Battalion
19Th Marines
Guadalcanal
Pacific Theater
United States
Wharton
Cpl
Elmer G. McKkitrick
Powers
Robert J. Powers
Honolulu
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Boy Hesemann
Coe College
U.S. Geological Survey
Iowa Dnr
Roy Hesemann
City of
Linn
Indian Creek
Mississippi River
the Gazette
John Dekhane
Uring
Robert James Powers
James Powers
U.S. Marines
France
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