Sending the wrong message on Casey's armed guards
Mary Russell argues Casey's General Stores on Broadway Street in Town City should rethink hiring armed guards. She cites racial bias in policing, questions guard training and standards, and warns of potential harm to the community and perceptions of safety. She recounts local incidents and urges reconsideration.
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Casey’s General Stores
Broadway Street
Town City
Casey’s
Iowa City
Christopher Kelly
Iowa Freedom Riders’ Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Casey
Puddle police critique of WOTUS cited by Dorman in column
The Gazette column by Todd Dorman attacking farmers and the Town Farm Bureau over the 2015 WOTUS rule is criticized for omitting key facts. Complaints by 31 states and 53 nonstate groups aimed at reviewing the rule have led to injunctions nationwide. The Georgia court found the rule unlawfully extended EPA authority beyond the Clean Water Act and violated the APA.
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Todd Dorman
The
Gazette
Town Farm Bureau
Environmental Protection Agency
Dorman
WOTUS
EPA
U.S. District Court For
Southern District of Georgia
Public Education’s Nightmare Year in Iowa Politics
Guest columnist Bruce Lear argues Republicans harmed public education during the 2017 and 2021 Iowa legislatures. He cites cuts to bargaining, underfunding, shifts to handbooks, teacher morale decline, and IPERS retirement impacts, calling the era a nightmare and urging voters to respond at the ballot box. Bruce Lear lives in Sioux City and is a retired educator.
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Iowa
Capitol
Soccor
IPERS
Bruce Lear
Sioux City
Filibuster under fire from Norman Sherman column
Norman Sherman argues that the filibuster blocks good legislation and democracy, criticizing Joni Ernst and former President Biden while recounting cloture history from 1917 to 1964 Civil Rights debates. Sherman notes changes in stance and urges abolition, profiling his political background in Coralville.
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Joni Ernst
Joe Biden
Senate
Ernst
Biden
Congress
Pro
Sen. Biden
Sen. Ernst
Norman Sherman
Coralville
Robert Humphrey
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