Heating fuel prices to rise but supply adequate
Iowa Energy Policy Council warned home heating fuel this winter will be adequate yet more costly. Ed Stanek cited Iran tensions as a key risk while projected January costs show fuel oil at 150 dollars versus 86 last year. Natural gas, electricity and propane also rise.
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Des Moines
Iowa Energy Policy Council
Council
Ed Stanek
Iran
Stanek
U.S
Gross
Eastern Iowa voters approve four bond issues for capital projects
Voters in several towns across Eastern Iowa backed bond proposals for park reconstruction in Kalona, a new public library building in Durant, a new fire station in Stanley, and a city storage shed in Garwin. Other measures approved sewer plans in Luxemburg, library district withdrawal in Graf, and term changes for city officials with staggered elections in several towns. Cable and telephone franchises were granted in multiple cities.
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Iowa
Kalona
Durant
West Park
Stanley
Garwin
Luxemburg
Postville
Guttenberg
Volga
Delhi
Clermont
Elkader
Earlville
Edgewood
Greeley
McGregor
Graf
Coralville
University Heights
Monona
Cascade
Dyersville
Epworth
Farley
Toledo
Ainsworth
Hedrick
Bennett
Lowden
Mount Auburn
Harpers Ferry
GOP wins two Iowa special elections widen control
Republicans extended their 56 44 House edge and 29 21 Senate margin after special elections in Polk County and six central Iowa counties. Robert Renken 56 of Aplington defeated Gerald Monk 3 261 to 1 916 to fill Cooper Evans term. Gary Baugher 37 of Ankeny beat Thomas Mann 5 813 to 3 455 to fill Earl Littill s vacancy. Mann hoped to become Iowa s first Black senator.
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Iowa Senate
House of Representatives
Senate
Polk County
House
Iowa
Robert Renken
Cooper Evans
R-Grundy Center
GOP
Ankeny
Gary Baugher
Earl Willitts
Des Moines
Tom Miller
Renken
Grundy Center
Gerald Monk
Baugher
Monk
Thomas Mann
Mann
Iowa Civil Rights Commission
Trail plan for Illinois Central Gulf rail right of way revived
Iowa Conservation Commission weighs a 20 000 annual funding request for three years to convert 49 miles of abandoned Illinois Central Gulf rail line into a recreation trail spanning Linn Buchanan Benton and Black Hawk counties. The plan includes a possible buy option and requires lease commitments from the railroad and county conservation boards.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Gilbertville
Iowa
Iowa Conservation Commission
Linn
Buchanan
Benton
Blackhawk
Arthur Small
O Lowa City
Arnie Sohn
Sohn
Commission
Kernes Given Life for Iowa City Murder Plot
Cedar County District Judge James Haver sentenced Robert Kern and Judy Kern of Iowa City to life in prison after a first degree murder conviction for plotting Ady Jensen's killing. Jensen was shot at his parents' rural West Branch home on April 14. Prosecution witness Jeanne Jensen, Jensen's widow, received 10 years for conspiring to murder her husband. She testified that Robert Kern hired Andrew Oglevie of Rockford Illinois to kill Jensen. Investigators say Oglevie remains at large and the probe continues.
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Tipton
Cedar County
James Havercamp
Robert
Judy Kern
Iowa City
Ady Jensen
Jensen
Ferdinand Jensen
Rural West Branch
Kerns
Iowa Supreme Court
The _—i
Jeanne
Robert Kern
Andrew Oglevie
Rockford
Ill
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Richard Kemler
Marshalltown
Upper
Wapsipinicon
Little Turkey
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Oglevie
Jeff Cook
Montgomery Iward
Montgomery
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