Iowa Legislature Boosts REAP Funding to Record 25 Million
The Iowa Legislature approved a record 25 million for the Resource Enhancement and Protection program its 25th year, surpassing prior funding levels. The measure ends years of underfunding and raises the commitment beyond the prior 20 million benchmark. The editorial notes the historic funding bump and its significance for state resources. The piece also notes the University of Iowa renewable energy push aiming for 40 percent of energy from renewables by 2020 and new giant miscanthus plantings in southwest Iowa City as part of biomass expansion efforts.
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REAP
Iowa
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Project Synergy
Pipe Dreamz
Happy Daze
Cedar Rapids
Hach
New Bohemia
Diane
Leon
Tunnie
Melsha
Daniel Ronan
Nancy Ronan
Chicago
Community biomass projects target Muscatine acres and grid goals
The article outlines a plan to harvest over 2 500 acres by 2016 for biomass to mix with coal in US power plants. It notes benefits for municipalities and institutions and cites rainwater cisterns at Cedar Rapids Public Library federal courthouse and Central Fire Station to reduce flooding and irrigate greenery.
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Muscatine County
Cedar Rapids
Federal Courthouse
Branstad Hints He May Sign Limited Medical Cannabis Bill
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad signals openness to a narrow use measure allowing up to 32 ounces of cannabidiol with a neurologist prescribed ID card for seizure relief. The proposal faces questions about access and policy frames for medical needs.
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Terry Branstad
Iowa
Letters on birth control costs and Viagra in nurse week
A reader responds to Glenn E Chatfield on budget birth control differences across income groups and employer insurance coverage for Viagra. The letter argues Viagra and birth control funding should address affordability and pregnancy prevention across ages, ending with National Nurses Week appreciation for nursing professionals.
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Glenn E. Chatfield
Nursing donors boost future of Iowa's care programs
Dayna Ballantyne of the University of Iowa Foundation announces gifts from Suzanne and William Ammerman toward a new birthing simulator at the Nursing Clinical Education Center. The note urges continued private support to keep Iowa nurses as leaders in clinical thinking and ethics.
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Suzanne
William Ammerman
Nursing Clinical Education
Ammermans
US College of Nursing
Iowa
Dayna Ballantyne
University of Iowa Foundation
Iowa City
Red Scare echoes and campus protests fuel intolerance debate
The piece recalls a 1920 Waterbury sedition case and argues that fear of “evil thinking” and thought crime panics persist. It contrasts historical clampdowns with modern campus protests over speakers like Condoleezza Rice and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, urging vigilance against censorship.
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Joseph Yennowsky
Waterbury, Conn
Yenowsky
Vladimir Lenin
Connecticut
America
U.S
Rutgers University
Condoleezza Rice
Brandeis University
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
United States
Funding supports nitrate reduction across Iowa watersheds
Iowa grain farmer Jim Smith recounts nitrate surges in the Boone River near Webster City in 2013 and argues for fully funding the Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund. He cites cover crops, strip tillage, nutrient management, overwintering crops and a wood chip bioreactor as steps toward a 45 percent nitrate reduction with broader farmer participation.
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Iowa
Gulf of Mexico
Iowa Soybean Association
Boone River
Webster City
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Geological Survey
Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund
Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship
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