Monday Morning Read: Branstad set for hearing, Latino immigrants uneasy, low-flying helicopters

LATINO IMMIGRANTS UNEASY — As people across the country prepare for a day of demonstrations today designed to show what life would be like without immigrants, families in Iowa's Latino immigrant community are apprehensive as they see deportations increase. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/iowas-latino-immigrants-uneasy-as-deportations-rise/

BRANSTAD SET FOR HEARING — In 23 years as governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad has faced a farm crisis, economic recessions, natural disasters and political emergencies. On Tuesday, Branstad will face the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, one of the last steps in his journey from Terrace Hills to Beijing where he will serve as U.S. ambassador to China. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/branstad-set-to-face-foreign-relations-committee-on-tuesday/

LOW-FLYING HELICOPTERS — The public is invited to a news conference about a groundwater study planned for this week, one that will require a low-flying helicopter to hover over parks of Cedar Rapids and Linn County. The news conference will take place at 11 a.m. today in the Northwest Water Treatment Plant, 7807 Ellis Road NW. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/low-flying-helicopter-to-survey-cedar-rapids-linn-county-this-week/

TRIAL SHOWS HAWKEYE ATHLETICS' INNER WORKINGS — The University of Iowa Athletics Department's strategic plan is to 'Win. Graduate. Do it Right.' A civil trial entering its third week in Polk County calls into question whether the UI did it right when officials transferred an associate athletic director out of the department and then last fall fired her. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/inner-workings-of-hawkeye-athletics-take-center-stage-at-bias-trial/

QUOTABLE — 'Five years from now we are going to have a story like no other county in the nation.' Clark McLeod, director of the Monarch Research Project