Chelsea flood buyout plan to tear down homes for parkland
A FEMA 804 037 grant will cover 75 percent of buyout costs for 46 flood prone Chelsea homes with a 25 percent local match. Buyouts will start after the City Council sets a schedule, possibly in July, with voluntary participation and at least 18 households needed to develop higher ground north of Chelsea.
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Chelsea
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
Brenda Braun
Iowa
Region 6 Planning Commission
Marshalltown
Buchanan County Voters Reject Local Option Sales Tax
Voters in most Buchanan County areas rejected a 1 percent local option sales tax. The measure failed in eight cities and unincorporated areas but passed in three communities: Aurora 21 to 16, Lamont 54 to 10, and Stanley 18 to 7, while Independence voted 644 to 189 against it.
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Buchanan County
Independence
Aurora
Lamont
Stanley
Cedar Falls Couple Weighs Australia Move to Avoid Deportation
Foad Mayahi and Haiedeh Mayahi, both Iranian immigrants living in Cedar Falls with three children, received travel papers to Australia by January 30, 1996 to join Foad’s retired Australian citizen parents. They must choose between fleeing to Australia or continuing the U.S. citizenship fight begun after their visas expired last year.
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Iran
Cedar Falls
Foad Mayahi
Haiedeh
Australia
Foad
Mary Robinson
Valley View Baptist Church
U.S
Robinson
United States
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Rapids man to stand trial on crack cocaine charges
Mark T. Robinson, 18, is set for trial in U.S. District Court on July 31 on two drug counts. He was arraigned after pleading not guilty to distributing about 11.9 grams of crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of Noelridge Park. If convicted, he faces 5 to 120 years in prison plus as much as $6 million in fines.
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Cedar Rapids
U.S
Mark T. Robinson
Noelridge Park
Robinson
Debate on Cedar Rapids government forms heats up
A Wellington Heights meeting centered on delaying Cedar Rapids July 11 elections or forming a charter commission. Joe Rinas and Myrna Loehrlein debated with local groups as petitions push for delaying the vote while 5,671 signatures are gathered to trigger a postponement.
Petition Day in Cedar Rapids Seeks Charter Signatures
The League of Women Voters hosts Cedar Rapids Petition Day today at Armstrong Centre and other sites from 7 to 9 a.m. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 4 to 5:30 p.m. At noon to 1 p.m. AEGON USA parking lot and 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Kirkwood Linn Hall petitioners aim to collect 5671 signatures to delay a July 11 election on switching from a city commission to a council manager system.
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Lonnie
League of Women Voters
Cedar Rapids
Armstrong Centre
Third St. SE
Aegon USA
Kirkwood Community College
Linn
Matriarch Minnette Doderer Shaped Iowa Legislature
Iowa's Minnette Doderer, a Democrat who served in the House and Senate since 1964, is described as the matriarch of women legislators. Her blunt, quick-witted style helped advance feminist aims from equal pay to abortion rights while pushing for social issue reforms during the 1960s and 70s. She faced defeats in races for lieutenant governor in 1970 and a 1978 Democratic primary, but remained a pivotal advocate for women.
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Minnette Doderer
Sue Davis
Smith Gazette
OWA City
Suzanne O'Dea
Schenken
Iowa
Doderer
Minnette
West Des Moines
Iowa State University Press
Des Moines
Iowa City
House
Senate
Maquoketa Eyes 400 Jobs With Plant Bid
Maquoketa officials seek incentives to lure a 130000 square foot plant that would hire 200 initially and grow to 400. State comments are unavailable as discussions proceed and a proposal is expected to Iowa Department of Economic Development on Thursday.
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Maquoketa
Francis “Gus” Glaser
Glaser
Jackson County
Iowa Department of Economic Development
Cedar Rapids to add five police with federal grant
Cedar Rapids will gain five new police officers funded mainly by a $369,742 federal grant over three years. The city must provide $123,248 in matching funds. after three years the full cost shifts to the city. The new class joins 12 vacancies for a total of 17 in July. The chief aims to expand bicycle patrols to west-side neighborhoods.
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Dick Hogan
Cedar Rapids
Bud Byrne
Byrne
Police Academy
Wellington Heights
Tragedy hits Alburnett as contractor injured in trench collapse
Don Graham of Graham and Son Trucking remained in critical condition after triple bypass surgery at St Luke's following a trench collapse that killed Chad Hendryx and Roger Parker while workers installed a sewer line. Graham's son Steve survived. Max Graham, Don's father, was hospitalized with pneumonia. Mayor Rasmussen notes community strain and personal guilt.
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LeuLews
Alburnett
Don Graham
Graham
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Steve Graham
Graham & Son Trucking
Chad Hendryx
Roger Parker
Central City
Linn County
Max
Luke
Rasmussen
Max Graham
Joe Rasmussen
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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East Iowa Journal
Charter Commission
Larson
First Lutheran Church
Joe Rinas
Myrna Loehrlein
League
Loehrlein
3Acks Charter Commission
Peti
Suzanne O’dea Schenken
Statehouse
Gazette
Linda Kahlbaugh
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