Voters from the College Community School District will vote April 3, 2012, on a public measure seeking approval to issue General Obligation Bonds in...
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IOWA CITY – A divided Johnson County Board of Supervisors Thursday night approved a new rental housing code. The code, which has been a source of friction among the supervisors, was passed with a 3-2 vote. Rod Sullivan and Janelle Rettig voted against it. The code will require certain rental properties in the unincorporated...
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DES MOINES – Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett says he believes prospects are better this session for a cost-sharing approach toward flood protection and rebuilding efforts in Iowa communities to clear the Legislature and get signed into law. “I think we have a really good chance this year,” said Corbett, a former House speaker,...
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IOWA CITY – Johnson County homeowners face slight increases in their county property taxes while many other property owners would see decreases under a budget proposal for next fiscal year released Monday. The Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing Feb. 29 on the nearly $84 million budget for fiscal 2013, which starts...
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IOWA CITY – All three members of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors whose terms end this year are seeking re-election. Pat Harney made his official announcement this week, joining fellow supervisors Rod Sullivan and Terrence Neuzil in the campaign for three open seats on the five-member board. The 69-year-old Harney, who is currently...
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IOWA CITY – The Johnson County Ambulance Service will use a federal grant to buy four new cardiac monitors. The $84,228 grant comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The ambulance service, which is operated by the county, will provide a 20 percent match, or $21,056, and the combined funds will be used to...
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IOWA CITY – The Johnson County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday again talked about a property code concerning Regency Mobile Home Park, again argued about it and again passed on moving forward with regulations. It’s been pretty much the same story for the past year. On Wednesday, the five supervisors, meeting in a work...
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DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad said Wednesday he would sign legislation to ban traffic-monitoring devices if the General Assembly sent him a bill this session. The governor made the comments on a day that a Des Moines radio talk show host and the executive director of the ACLU of Iowa delivered petitions bearing...
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DES MOINES — Iowa lawmakers are being asked to crack down on hosts who provide alcohol to minors and under-aged drinkers who consume alcoholic beverages. A House subcommittee began work Wednesday on a bill that would make it illegal for the owner, lessee or a person who has control over a property that is...
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DES MOINES – Iowa’s transportation chief assured a Senate panel Wednesday that the state is not in jeopardy of losing federal funding for a proposed passenger rail expansion with Illinois that could bring service from Chicago as far west as Iowa City via the Quad Cities area. “We’re still in the queue. We’re taking...
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DES MOINES – A bipartisan group of House and Senate members are forming a “cancer caucus” to raise awareness and share collective knowledge among legislators and their constituents about a large group of different diseases that claim more than 6,000 Iowans’ lives every year. “I think it’s an issue that all Iowans are interested...
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