Gomers -- What's going wrong

WORST IN STATE: The busy, vital Interstate 380/80 interchange in Johnson County is the worst place in Iowa for heavy truck rollovers, with 30 such incidents at that interchange from 2001-2009, according to a study by the American Transportation Research Institute. During that time, rollover accidents averaged 346 annually for the entire state. Fixing the interchange's problems will require a $300 million reconstruction project, funded mostly by the federal government. That's not likely for 10 to 15 years.

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TURNED DOWN AGAIN: A second appeal to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for funding toward replacing the University of Iowa Museum of Art at a new location was denied. FEMA is willing to pay repair costs - estimated at $5 million-plus - for the existing building, but won't chip in for a new $40 million facility at a new site away from the Iowa River because the 2008 flood damage wasn't enough to qualify for replacement funding. UI officials say they can't return the museum's $500 million art collection to the damaged building because no insurance company will insure it there.

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