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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IOWA CITY – The snow is not piling up this winter in eastern Iowa, but the savings are. Iowa City Public Works Director Rick Fosse estimates the lack of winter weather has saved his department roughly $70,000 on salt and sand costs and an additional $30,000 in overtime and fuel costs.  Iowa City spends...
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CORALVILLE – Tax policy usually doesn’t get many people excited, but it proved to be a popular, and divisive, topic in Coralville Wednesday. A standing-room only crowd of more than 200 people attended a two-hour forum on tax-increment financing at the Coralville Public Library. Many local government officials were there, along with state lawmakers,...
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IOWA CIY — Terrrence Neuzil officially announced Friday that he will seek a 4th term as Johnson County Supervisor. Neuzil, 41, a democrat, has been on the Board of Supervisors since 2001.  In seeking reelection, Neuzil says he plans to focus on preparing Johnson County for an projected population boom of 30,000 more residents by...
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Updated Dec. 20 at 10:40 a.m. with YouTube ranking. IOWA CITY – The YouTube video that aligned the national spotlight on the Iowa City man with two mothers was announced as the top political video of 2011 early Tuesday morning. The three-minute video, which has been viewed more than 18 million times since Tuesday,...
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IOWA CITY – Rod Sullivan said Monday he will seek re-election next year to his seat on the Johnson County Board of Supervisors. The two-term Democrat is the first person to declare for the election. “I think we’ve done a lot of really good things, but I still think there’s more to do,” the...
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CORALVILLE – By this time next year, driving through north Coralville should be much more convenient. Johnson County and Coralville plan to start work in early 2012 on a project extending Oakdale Boulevard from near Pembrokeshire Drive to Dubuque Street to the east. The work is scheduled to be mostly done by the end...
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