Labor union membership falls nationwide and in Iowa
Iowa unions show a continued decline in membership with 1 in 10 workers in 2012, down from 1 in 6 in 1988, though public employee union rate rises to 34.5 percent. Hawkeye Labor Council picnic turnout remains 1,500 to 1,700 as officials note settled labor norms reduce drive to organize. Political concerns about collective bargaining surge in other states, while older bargaining themes reappear.
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Iowa
U.S. Labor Department
Hawkeye Labor Council
Hawkeye Downs
United States
Moyle
Ohio
Michigan
Oklahoma
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Afscme
Steve McDonald
McDonald
Online Iowa Life Cemetery records unlock family secrets
Iowa City researcher Joan Dinnel has spent 30 years compiling genealogy through binder after binder. The Oakland Cemetery online database now lets users search 20,000+ burial records, locate sites, view copies, and uncover surprises such as eight buried lots once unknown, while officials admit some gravestones and records date to the 1830s and may be missing or incomplete.
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Iowa City
Joan Dinnel
Oakland Cemetery
Russell Buffington
Heather
Thegazette
Coralville to Install Two Public Art Projects This Fall
Coralville unveils two major art projects this fall. Eleven literature based sculptures will form a riverside park at Iowa River Landing in September. In October a bronze sculpture outside the police headquarters on Fifth Street, funded over 24 years by donations, will be dedicated titled The Coralville Protector.
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Coralville
Iowa River Landing
Fifth Street
Barry Bedford
First Avenue
Jim Fausett
Iowa City
Iowa Writers’ Library
Coralville Marriott Hotel
Writers’ Workshop
University of Iowa
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Marilynne Robinson
James Anthony Bearden
Des Moines
Dorothy
Marvin Bell
Bell
Bearden
Ellen Habel
Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs
Kelly Hayworth
Brodin Studios
Bedford
Lithographs honor veterans in Iowa courthouses drive
Gary Stephenson continues his father Daniel Stephenson's project to place lithographs of the 1934 Constitution in all Iowa courthouses. The effort, started in 1990, has reached about 85 sites with loans and donations funding the prints. Plaques honor American Legion, AMVETS, and VFW posts across multiple counties, plus a memorial inscription for those who sacrificed for freedom.
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Eleader
Gary Stephenson
Daniel
Iowa
Lee County
Daniel Stephenson
Leoni
Clayton County
American Legion
Elkader
Edgewood
Garnaville
Guttenberg
Marquette
McGregor
Monona
St. Olaf
Strawberry Point
Volga
Amvets
VFW
Stephenson
Wartburg professor uses reptiles to engage students
Wartburg professor Dr Michael Bechtel fills his classroom with snakes tortoises lizards frogs and insects to boost biology lessons He has 30 plus species and loans the reptiles to local middle and elementary schools to bring hands on learning to students and teachers alike He hopes the live creatures spark renewed interest in learning and note taking by letting students hold a snake while they study
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Waverly
Michael Bechtel
Wartburg
Bechtel
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