Iowa City council candidates urge careful budgeting amid federal cuts
Six contenders for two at large seats and District B in Iowa City push plans to cope with possible federal budget reductions. They discuss sewer plant funding, transit costs, regional cooperation, tax options, and trimming nonessential projects while preserving services.
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Iowa City
Iowa City City
McDonald
Glenn Roberts
Roberts
Kattchee
Coralville
Coralville Mayoral Race and City Finances At Issue
Coralville voters face a mayoral choice amid a council race with three incumbents seeking seats. The city weighs urban renewal bonds to fund development at Highway 6 and First Avenue and ponders bonding and service efficiencies as transit costs rise. Local business leaders urge thrift and regional collaboration.
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J. McCauley
Flansburg
Coralville
Whch
Highway 6
First Avenue
Frank Grell
Grell
Iowa City
Plane crash in Iowa kills two Missouri residents
A single engine plane looping the Essex football field in heavy fog crashed in a soybean field killing Allen A. Swanson 56 of Higginsville Missouri and Elinore Swanson 57 of Blue Springs Missouri. The victims were identified Saturday and autopsies ordered.
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ESSEX
UPI
Page County
Ron Franks
Missouri
Iowa
Allen A. Swanson
Higginsville
Elinore
Blue Springs
Kansas City
Party officials target 22nd House race in Eastern Iowa
In the 22nd District special election Republicans back Connie Tjarks of Maquoketa and Democrats back Don Knapp of Cascade. Both parties vie for a seat vacated by Nancy Shimanek as General Assembly sessions loom. The race focuses on local welfare control and funding, prison reform, school transportation, and tax adjustments to offset federal cuts. District covers parts of Delaware Dubuque Jackson and Jones counties.
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House
General Assembly
Iowa
GOP
Tim Hyde
Maquoketa
Connie Tjarks
Mike Tramontina
Don Knapp
Tjarks and Knapp
Nancy Shimanek
Monticello
Robert Ray
Tjarks
Knapp
Heritage
Fort Madison
Mississippi River
Mount Pleasant
Oakdale
Tlarks
David
Delaware
Dubuque
Jackson
Jones Counties
Judge caps coal delivery rate at 7.62 a ton
UPI reports U.S. District Judge Harold Vietor issued a temporary restraining order barring Burlington Northern from charging more than 7.62 dollars per ton for coal delivered to Iowa Power's Council Bluffs plant. Iowa Power sought to block a proposed 10.95 rate for Wyoming coal. A final ruling in the dispute is pending.
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UPI
Burlington Northern Railroad
Iowa Power Generating
Iowa Power
Wyoming
Council Bluffs
U.S
Harold Vietor
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University of Iowa
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Erdahl
Scott Boulevard
Committee On
Community Needs
Robert Vevera
Vevera
Coralville Elections
Michael Kattchee
Council
Jim Fausett
Ees
Fausett
Arnold Zajicek
Zajicek
David Holcomb
the Gazette
Richarb
Shenandoah
Swansons
Red Oak
Stanton
Ken Sullivan
Reformatory
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Shimanek
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Edgewood Road
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