Wednesday Morning Read: Linn voters keep supervisor plan, UI students’ dangerous drinking drops, water valve break kills fish in McLoud Run

TODAY'S WEATHER — Partly cloudy, warmer. High 84, low 64.

LINN VOTERS KEEP SUPERVISOR PLAN — Linn County's representation plan — which dictates how county supervisors are elected — will remain unchanged. At the 8 p.m. close of Tuesday's special election, in which fewer than 10,000 votes were cast, more than 71 percent of Linn County voters had chosen to stick with the county's current representation plan, which has supervisors living within specific districts and elected by the residents of their respective district. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/government-politics/linn-county-voters-stay-with-current-representation-plan/

UI STUDENTS' DANGEROUS DRINKING DROPS — The University of Iowa plans to toughen at least two of its 2019 targets for reducing harmful alcohol consumption among students after meeting its goals — or coming close — two years early. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/university-of-iowa-sees-decline-in-dangerous-alcohol-use/

WATER VALVE BREAK KILLS FISH IN McLOUD RUN — More than 2,000 fish are dead in McLoud Run after the third fish kill in four years on the urban trout stream in northeast Cedar Rapids. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/news/mcloud-water-main-break-leads-to-2000-dead-fish/

THE NEXT GENERATION OF CYCLONES — When Georges Niang and Naz Mitrou-Long arrived five years ago, they wanted to leave their marks on Iowa State basketball. Monte Morris and Matt Thomas were two more key pieces of the puzzle, and the results speak for themselves. Now they're handing over the program to a lot of new faces. Read more: https://www.thegazette.com/basketball/georges-niang-naz-mitrou-long-monte-morris-weigh-in-on-overhauled-iowa-state-basketball-roster/

QUOTABLE — 'If we're going to grow as a state, Iowa needs to be competitive for people to stay here and for people to move here. That's one our biggest challenges — we're not growing fast enough.' Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett, now running for governor of Iowa