Iowa voices split on water quality law and local wage pre emptions
The Gazette surveys Eastern Iowans on the 87th General Assembly actions. Connie Mutel calls Senate File 512 a weak bill that may not curb industrial farming. Erin Boyer notes farmers need affordable conservation tools and welcomes start up funds for cover crops and urban upgrades. Abby Luther recalls local minimum wage pre emption limiting city rates and the impact on tipped workers while Mitchell Schmidt covers the Miller ruling on gun law immunity and its implications.
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Iowa City
Senate
Mutel
Reinbeck Boyer
Soil and Water Conservation District
Tama County
Tama
Grundy
Iowa
Boyer
Burrows Calls for Camera Oversight Amid Tax Offset Stalemate
Burrows says his state income tax is being offset due to 11 unpaid automated traffic camera tickets on I 380 from 2012 to 2017. He claims 30 notices were never received and faults lawmakers for no statewide regulation or ban. He calls for uniform oversight and says legislators have not acted.
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Burrows
Interstate 380
Iowa
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa Department of Transportation
Zeppelins Bar & Grill staffer comments on Linn County wage hike
Abby Luther, 31, front house manager at Zeppelins Bar & Grill in Cedar Rapids, has worked there over two years. She discusses Linn County's recent minimum wage increase and its impact on staff.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Luther
Iowa
Zeppelins Bar & Grill
Linn County
Mother seeks change after Iowa City mall killing
Sharona Jones, mother of Kaleek Jones killed August 27 2017 at the Pedestrian Mall in Iowa City, voices support for reversing stand your ground. Wilson claimed self defense and immunity arguing gun rights law. a Polk County jury convicted him on lesser charges after February trial.
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Kaleek Jones
Lamar Wilson
Iowa City
Wilson
Polk County
Iowa lecturer leaves for tenure track role at Wilson College
Matt McBride, 38, a lecturer in Iowa City, departs the University of Iowa Rhetor ic Department after two years to teach at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pa. His move follows a wave of non tenure track faculty activism demanding better pay and protections while public funding declines.
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Stephen Mally
the Gate
Matt McBride
University of Iowa
Iowa
McBride
Ohio
Wilson College
Chambersburg
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