A look back at what’s been in the news in Iowa in the past week
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A look back at what’s been in the news in Iowa in the past week
Residents of the Forest View Mobile Home Court in Iowa City were promised new homes after years of discussion and negotiation. But the development is no longer moving forward. Living conditions at the mobile home park have deteriorated, and the owner says the park will not survive another winter.
‘We need to treat this as a matter of extreme urgency,’ said council member Pauline Taylor
Deadline nears for the college, apprenticeship scholarships for young people who used services at Tanager Place
“Everyone should be properly vetted to make sure they’re no threat to our national security,” the Republican senator said. “For the emergency we’re in, what’s happening now in Ukraine, I think we have a situation where for humanitarian purposes we have to be helpful.”
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics Podcast: who’s running for public office this year, Chuck Grassley and another Supreme Court nomination, and the legislative session begins to wind down.
He is left with stark choices how and where to replenish his spent ground forces, whether to attack the flow of Western arms to Ukrainian defenders, and at what cost he might escalate the war.
“Service has been central to my life,” said Colman Silbernagel, one of three candidates in the June 7 primary for the Republican nomination. He looks forward to representing the district “to defend life, protect our Second Amendment rights and fight for family-supporting jobs.”
The woman was found in a jail cell Thursday morning by a corrections officer.
The accident took place Friday. Rescuers found the man buried in about 10 feet of corn.
The Iowa Supreme Court upholds Tipton woman’s conviction for killing her cheating boyfriend with a baseball bat in 1992 cold case. She was convicted in 2019, 27 years after West Liberty man was beaten to death.
QHC Facilities, which owns eight skilled-nursing facilities and two assisted-living centers in Iowa, including Crestview Acres in Marion, filed for bankruptcy protection in late December.
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