Run a red light fix a pothole bill advances in Iowa
Iowa House Local Government Committee approves House File 105 to require revenue from automated traffic enforcement devices after vendor payments be used for streets and roads. The bill shifts funds to Cedar Rapids city general fund for road work, drawing skepticism from some lawmakers. The measure now awaits full House action and a Senate committee before the April 1 funnel deadline.
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Ine Gazette
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Iowa House Local Government Committee
Nick Wagner
R-Marion
Police Department
Wagner
John Wittneben
Estherville
Marion budget passes 4-3 after public hearing
Marion adopts a $36 million city budget by a 4-3 vote despite protests from three council members. The plan raises residential taxes 2.49 percent to 13.50 per 1000 and cuts one engineering position while adding two road crew staff and budgeting IT and consultant costs.
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Cathleen Beke
Marion
Lon Pluckhahn
IPERS
Nick Glew
Glen
Craig Adamson
Steve Sprague
Lou Stark
Dubuque man sentenced for buying and selling stolen meat
A 66-year-old Dubuque businessman Donald Herbst Sr. was sentenced in federal court to over five years in prison for nine counts of buying receiving and possessing stolen meat and one count of conspiring to do so. He and his wife and his son sold tens of thousands of pounds of Farmland Inc. meat sourced from a freezer in East Dubuque Illinois to more than 25 customers in the Dubuque area. Herbst was fined 10000 restitution 380579 and forfeited 85000 plus 15000 previously seized. Chief Judge Linda Reade noted he obstructed justice by giving false statements at trial.
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Trish Mehaffey
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
U.S. District Court
Donald Herbst Sr
Herbst
Farmland, Inc
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Iowa labels healthier vending options statewide
The Iowa Department of Public Health will label vending machine foods in state buildings with color coded stickers red for outside guidelines yellow for meeting guidelines without a full nutrient serving and green for full guidelines. Wellmark Foundation funds 112 500 to roll out the system at Iowa state property. A trial run will show at the Lucas and Wallace state office buildings in Des Moines as the federal act expands calorie labeling.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Wellmark Foundation
State Health Department
Lucas and Wallace
Des Moines
Judge Won't Dismiss Charges Against Woody's Co-Owners
Sixth Judicial District Judge Sean McPartland rejects motions to dismiss charges against Bryan Bresler and Justin Brown of Cedar Rapids for employing underage girls to dance nude at Woody's Performing Arts Theatre. Trial date set for April 4. defense argued theater exemption.
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P, Wa
Cedar Rapids
Sixth Judicial District
Sean McPartland
Bryan Bresler
Justin Brown
Woody’s
Iowa
Woody's
Fremont County
Geniez
Hamburg
Shotgun Geniez
McPartland
Bresler and Brown
Trish.mehaffey
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