This week was the second “funnel week” at the Capitol and with mere weeks left in this year’s session, Iowa lawmakers are likely to take up competing AEA bills, proposed tax policy changes, and bills that address school safety.
Iowa’s tax receipts will come in slightly lower than expected this year, but revenues will hold steady in 2025 according to the latest projections from a state panel that estimates annual revenue.
The work started last week, after staff noticed a sinkhole caused by corrosion in the original pipe, which is critical to the city’s wastewater treatment process.
The second legislative deadline of the 2024 session took out a number of bills of significant potential impact
Starting Monday, a free water taxi will cross the river there at certain times of the day for seven days a week until the bridge is repaired and reopened to traffic, the Iowa Department of Transportation announced Friday.
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The crop fertilizer killed fish and might have affected the river all the way to the Missouri border.
The Tree of Five Seasons monument near City Hall will be moved a short distance this spring as part of Cedar Rapids’ permanent flood control system construction, making way for a flood wall.
The bills were introduced by House Republicans in the wake of January’s fatal shooting at Perry High School.
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