Marion seeks funding in downtown district plan with 20 year tax credits
Marion proposes reinvestment district funding using four cents of state sales tax and five cents of state hotel tax for up to 20 years. Cities like Coralville Cedar Falls Davenport Grinnell Mason City Sioux City and others request millions with IEDA provisional awards planned June 1 2015. Lon Pluckhahn says project centers on a busy downtown plaza with year round programming and a new library option. a hotel and market would accompany the plan while public input continues.
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Deportation case strands Honduran immigrant with Iowa family
Max Villatoro left Honduras in 1995 and was convicted in 1999 of drunken driving and tampering with records in Iowa. His wife Gloria led a video plea as over 40,000 sign a petition to halt his deportation. The family, now in Iowa City with four children, started a Spanish speaking congregation and face a 2018 deportation order affirmed by the 8th Circuit.
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Coe Remembering 65 pledge dispute and ongoing race tensions
In 1965 Coe College faced a Lambda Chi Alpha pledge crisis when the chapter moved to admit its first black member. National leadership opposed pledging Negroes, but local support and campus administration backed integration, shaping a progressive stance cited today amid OU race tensions.
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