Cedar Rapids faces small surtax to boost school aid
Iowa districts may levy a one year income surtax with voter approval to cover gaps in state education funding. Cedar Rapids would need about 3.8 percent, while other districts vary from 4 to over 10 percent. Gov Ray is expected to sign the bill. Senate Education chair Arthur Gratias doubts many districts will win voter approval.
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Prairie
Robert Ray
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Arthur Gratias
Arthur Gratias, R-Nora Springs
Senate Education Committee
Soil conservation bill headed back to Senate
Iowa lawmakers consider a bill to simplify soil erosion controls for property developers by requiring an affidavit that projects will not exceed soil loss limits. The measure, approved by the Senate and pending House action, would raise the minimum lot size for affidavit use to 25 000 square feet and set rules by Oct 1.
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Iowa Senate
Gene Walter
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Walter
Senate
House Natural Resources Committee
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Marvin Diemer
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Diemer
Dick Ransom
Ransom
House
Board names three step plan to pick UI president successor
The Iowa Board of Regents targets July 1 to name Willard Boyd's successor after his Sept. 1 departure to lead Chicago's Field Museum. A screening committee of administrators, faculty, and students will trim candidates to at least six and forward them to the regents for final selection.
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University of Iowa
Willard Boyd
U of
Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago
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Regents
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Board of Regents
Mary Louise Petersen
U of I Law
Ron Allen
Affirmative Action
Percy Harris
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Ray
Regents oppose two Iowa House bills on law student aid and abortions
The Estate Board of Regents voted to oppose bills to bar U I law students from providing civil rights legal aid to prison inmates and to abolish funding for an abortion clinic at University Hospitals. Regents cried for merit over economy and noted the clinic's work is court assigned training.
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Estate Board of Regents
Iowa House
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Iowa
House Education Subcommittee
Rep
Ray Bailey
Milford
U of I
Willard Boyd
Mary Louise Petersen
Regents
Tyrrell
House
University Hospitals
Mattress fire hazard noted in Des Moines investigation
Iowa officials warn against sponge cake polyurethane mattresses after tests in the West Des Moines motel fire that killed two people. State and local officials urge disposal as the toxic smoke spreads rapidly. Victims were in town for the state wrestling tournament. Bradley Mather, 20, has pleaded innocent to two first degree murder charges.
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Polk County
Dan Johnston
West Des Moines
Wilbur Johnson
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Bradley Mather
Ing
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