Retention battle descends on Iowa Supreme Court
About 150 Cedar Rapids residents heard Dan Moore urge support for retaining Justice David Wiggins on the November 6 ballot. The event highlighted worries about outside money and politics in judicial retention while noting Wiggins’ 2009 ruling on same sex marriage and a 63 percent peer approval score.
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Trish Mehaffey
Cedar Rapids
Dan Moore
Sioux City
Greene Square Park
Supreme Court
David Wiggins
Iowa
Wiggins
Moore
Iowa State Bar Association
Yes
Iowans For Freedom
Bob Vander Plaats
No Wiggins
State Bar
Vander Plaats
Tamara Scott
Cochair
Towans
Lam Carros
the Gazette
Sondra Walcott
Iowa Supreme Court
Dunkerton Mayor and Nephew Fined After Traffic Stop
Dunkerton Mayor Michael Shares and his nephew Thomas Adamson were fined 350 each by Judge James Coil for interference and harassment of a public official stemming from a December traffic stop. Adamson challenged the officer, while the mayor did not speak in court as the case unfolded.
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Dunkerton
Associated Press
Waterloo
Iowa
James Coil
Michael Shares
Thomas Adamson
Shares
Adamson
Couples Splits Over Swinging Lifestyle Repeats Plea
Dear Abby advises Foxy to choose divorce rather than secrecy or silent suffering as partners no longer share a swinging lifestyle. The column also addresses a college student in Boston who faced an awkward GPA inquiry from a jogger, noting normal lines of inquiry and suggesting the man drop that pickup line.
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Abby
Foxy
Phoenix
Boston
Braley Lange spar over Medicare funding in Iowa
Two Eastern Iowa doctors joined Republican critiques of Bruce Braley over ObamaCare and Medicare solvency. Braley argued he preserved Medicare benefits and extended its life by cutting waste. Lange cited a CBO estimate of $716 billion in Medicare cuts under ObamaCare and claimed Braley voted to cut Medicare.
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James Q. Lynch
The
Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa
Bruce Braley
Braley
Jeff Giertz
Congressional Budget Office
Lange Campaign
Barack Obama
Viser
Cody Brown
Ben Lange
Giertz
Arnold Delbridge
Cedar Falls
Delbridge
Robert Roof
Regional
Manchester
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Covenant Medical
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Sourcemedia.net
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DearAbby.com
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Dear Abby
Jeanne Phillip
Mes.lynch
Sourcemedia
Ruth Ehrhardt
Matt Olmstead
Pros
Lindsey Buchheit
Four Oaks
Kernel
Ruth
Monticello
OAKS
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