Group touts peace on Mother's Day in Iowa park
About 40 residents gathered at Macbride Nature Recreation Area near Coralville to mark Mother's Day as a celebration of peace. Organizers Rebecca Rosenbaum and Cath Moore noted the weather and war as motivators, with readings of Julia Ward Howe and support from Iowans for Peace and other groups.
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Coralville
Rebecca Rosenbaum
Iowa City
Macbride
Rosenbaum
Cath Moore
Moore
Julia Ward Howe
Howe
U.S
Kol Shira
North Liberty
Rita Offett
Linda Wertz
Valerie Bills
Karen Charney
Sam Bills
Lieberman Visits Iowa With Mother for Mother's Day Support
Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman meets his 88 year old mother Marcia Lieberman in Des Moines as he courts Iowa activists during the presidential race. He plans dinner after weather delays and says his mother could have aided Gore’s 2000 campaign more.
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Des Moines
Connecticut
Joe Lieberman
Marcia Lieberman
Lieberman
Iowa
al Gore
Official defends child welfare mediation program
Des Moines AP reports after the death of 5 month old Camden O Connor criticism grows over a mediation program for child welfare cases. Polk County Attorney Cory McClure defends the program saying it cuts case load and speeds outcomes while advocates urge stronger checks and judges in critical cases.
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Des Moines
Polk County Attorney's Office
Cory McClure
Camden O’connor
Francis Garrity
McClure
O’connor
Johnson
Camden
Graham campaigns at Drake Diner. buses tables during visit
Florida Senator Bob Graham spent five hours busing tables at the Drake Diner in Des Moines as part of his workday tour. He mixed with customers over politics, stressing his tax stance while planning similar shifts in Iowa and New Hampshire. He arrived after a busy Mother's Day brunch and continued to engage diners and reporters.
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Des Moines
Florida
Bob Graham
Bush
Louis Smith
Joyce
Graham
Smith
Jay Kozel
Iowa
New Hampshire
Senate
Jim Smith
Excavation firm fined for One Call law violation in Mondamin
In Mondamin Iowa King Agri Sales Inc was fined 5000 dollars for violating the Iowa One Call law by failing to notify before July excavation in Monona County. A trenching machine damaged an 8 inch hazardous liquids pipeline and was within 10 feet of a separate 12 inch line carrying liquid petroleum products under pressure. Williams Pipeline operates both lines. Judge John D Ackerman ordered payment and barred future violations.
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Mondamin
Iowa
Tom Miller
King Agri Sales, Inc
Monona
King Agri
Williams Pipeline
Monona County
John D. Ackerman
King Agri Sales Inc
Miller
Arlington contractor fined for One Call violation
An Arlington excavator was fined 7500 for violating Iowa's One Call law after a gas line was ruptured during digging. Lyle Becker and Recker Construction Inc. failed to notify from a site address far away and altered plans without a second notification. The rupture near Oelwein killed Daniel Reedy and injured Gary Davis.
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Arlington
Iowa
Lyle Becker and
Recker Construction Inc
Oelwein
Daniel Reedy
la Porte City
Gary Davis
County funds fix cracking Dubuque courthouse walls
The Dubuque County Board of Supervisors approved a $2,500 contract with NW Engineers and Surveyors to repair cracks in the courthouse walls caused by a prior first-floor remodeling. The firm will jack up the existing wall and install a new steel frame after finding timber shoring insufficient for load bearing.
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Board of Supervisors
NW Engineers and Surveyors of
Dubuque
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