Legislative Notes If No Word Fits Just Make Up a New One
Des Moines column by Frank Nyc discusses lawmakers coin new terms like honorability and includability to express meaning. The piece mocks creative coinage by legislators James Gallagher and Terry Branstad as examples of verbal ingenuity.
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Des Moines
Sen
James Gallagher
D-Jesup
Iowa Senate
Rep
Terry Branstad
Blake Mills
Iowa House
ISU Iowa State football seating dispute heats up
ISU and Iowa fight over tickets for the September game as Iowa offers roughly 5,000 of its 60,000 seats. Lobbyist Dick Thornton needles Rep. Reid Crawford about the seating plan. He quips you can make us play but we don’t have to sit with you.
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Iowa
Dick Thornton
Hawkeye
Reid Crawford
Ames
Arrival of Spring Brings Rise in Iowa Vice Crimes
Vice Director Roger Stevens notes spring weather increases visibility of vice activity across Iowa. Gambling and bookmaking rise as prostitution becomes more noticeable in Des Moines Sioux City Dubuque and Davenport. Des Moines police handle much of their own cases.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Department of Public Safety
Roger Stevens
Stevens
Sioux City
Dubuque
Davenport
ERA Foes Lose Hearing on Public ERA Hearing
In Iowa Senate judiciary committee the push to rescind 1972 ERA ratification drew little support. Chairman Gene Glenn declined a hearing without a formal request, while Sen. Richard Ramsey and others debated sponsors and conditions. The ERA would ban sex discrimination if ratified by 38 states. 35 have done so.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Senate Judiciary Committee
Gene Glenn
D-Ottumwa
Glenn
Richard Ramsey
R-Osceola
Judiciary
Eugene Hill
Newton
Judiciary Committee
Ramsey
Sens
Seph Coleman
Clare
Forrest Ashcraft
Davenport
Sen
Minnette Doderer
Iowa City
Doderer
Elizabeth Shaw
R-Davenport
U.S
Iowa bills in legislature outline property tax and public access changes
Iowa lawmakers consider HF346 shifting computers to personal property tax base and HF347 offering renters with low incomes property tax relief. HF348 calls for open public bargaining sessions, HF349 clarifies plea procedures for drug cases, HF350 addresses easement impacts on drainage tiles, HF351 allows multiple beer permits and offsite main office, HF352 makes public indecency provisions immediate, HF353 targets disability denial in homemaker insurance. Senate measures SF5 SF200 SF201 SF202 SF203 SF204 cover nonprofit meetings by conference call, civil service, labor picketing, leased item tax responsibility, insulation tax credits and unpaid reserve officers. 20 years ago a warehouse fire sent fumes across the tri state area.
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Crawford
Tauke
Iowa Commerce Commission
Howell
Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department
Des Moines
Newhard
Schroeder and Danker
Civil Service Commission
C. Miller
Iowa House again pushes state land use policy bill
The Iowa House began another push to pass a land use policy law, aiming to orderly use and development of land while protecting prime agricultural land and historic sites. The measure would create a 13 member governor appointed commission, shift the soil conservation department, and require county driven land use plans with state guidance.
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Des Moines
Iowa House
House
Senate
Andrew Varley
Stuart
Rep
Mary O'Halloran
Cedar Falls
O’halloran
Bert Priebe
D-Algona
Senate Natural Resources Committee
Priebe
O'Halloran
Department of Soil Conservation
Department of Soil Conservation and Land Use
Defense Witness Claim Shapes Murder Case
Fort Dodge attorney Rick Lunn says Michael Lee Westphal, presumed dead near Lizard Lake, would have been a key defense witness in Louis Eastwood's drug and stolen goods case. Westphal allegedly implicated Eastwood in a pretense theft and planned a police sting, but backed out.
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Fort Dodge
Louis Eastwood
Michael Lee Westphal
Rick Lunn
Lizard Lake
Westphal
California
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Eastwood
Lunn
Webster County
Bill Thatcher
Lewis Eastwood
Stanwood Receives 7500 Grant For Wastewater Plan
The EPA awarded Stanwood seven thousand five hundred dollars to fund wastewater treatment plant planning under the federal pollution control act. The council also reviewed a second month of water treatment showing the clarification project reducing rust. Restaurant owners on Highway 30 report a thin film on coffee though taste remains unaffected. samples are sent for lab analysis.
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Stanwood
Environmental Protection Agency
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