Five-firm protest over Home to Stay contract award
Local firms challenge a $3.45 million Home to Stay project award for a 26 unit apartment complex aiding former prisoners. Kinderknecht Associates ranked fifth after bids were trimmed. Garling Construction led with the lowest bid. Hinzman halted the bid results, citing budget concerns as the cause.
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Adam Belz
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Kinderknecht Associates
Community Corrections Improvement Association
Gary Hinzman
Association
Sixth Judicial District Correctional Services
Kinderknecht
Hinzman
Home To Stay Board
Garling Construction
Belle Plaine
Garling
Taylor School
Buford Garner
North Liberty
Doug DeMeulenaere
Rinderknecht
Garling’s
Iowa Public Radio consolidation shows gains says CEO
Iowa Public Radio CEO Mary Grace Herrington says the four year reorganization has boosted listenership by 22 percent and membership by 7 percent in 2008-09 with donor revenue up 9 percent. She frames these increases as signs the unified system is working despite listener complaints that numbers aren’t everything.
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Diane Heldt
Iowa Public Radio
Mary Grace Herrington
Herrington
Love Over Borders: German Polish Couple wed after decades
Elvira Profe, a German woman, and Fortunat Mackiewicz, a Polish man, married in Mieszkowice after decades apart. Their story begins after World War I amid border redraws and German expulsions, surviving Cold War tensions and a Soviet labor camp to unite in their 70th year since World War II began.
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Vanessa Gera
Assoglicou
Mieszkowice
Poland
Elvira Profe
Fortunat Mackiewicz
Elvira
Siberia
Fortunat
Supreme Court eyes new term led by Roberts and Alito
The Supreme Court opens a potentially transformative term with Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito shaping a more conservative direction. Sonia Sotomayor will attract attention as Obama’s landmark appointment reveals her judicial philosophy, while analysts anticipate the long term impact of Roberts and Alito surpassing that of Sotomayor.
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Robert Barnes
Washington Post
Washington
Supreme Court
John Roberts Jr
Sonia Sotomayor
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
Roberts
Samuel Alito Jr
Sandra Day O’connor
Alito
William H
Rehnquist
O’connor
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Java House
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