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Long Grove awarded trail construction, and water system engineering contracts, advancing work on the city’s $3.8 million improvement plan.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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10/18/23
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Early voting in city and school election is available 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25 at the Scott County Library in Eldridge.
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10/18/23
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More than $500,000 in technology contracts will make old Scott County records accessible to today’s residents.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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10/18/23
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Casey Desantis, right, speaks to a crowded Cody Road coffee shop crowd Oct. 13. The wife of Florida Gov. Ron Desantis stopped in during a campaign swing for his Republican presidential campaign.
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10/18/23
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As early as April, Eldridge council members were alerted to liability concerns based on fired police officer Andrew Denoyer’s on-duty sex abuse of a minor two years earlier.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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10/17/23
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The NSP sent surveys Oct. 5 to nine candidates for three Eldridge council seats. Deadline was Friday, Oct. 13.
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10/17/23
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Expect the Eldridge council to offer a lease that will keep the Scott County Library in town at least another 25 years, at a rate the library can afford.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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10/17/23
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Early voting in city and school election is available 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25 at the Scott County Library in Eldridge.
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10/11/23
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Former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Thomas Homan will be joined by presidential candidates Sen. Tim Scott, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson for Scott County Republicans’ Ronald Reagan Dinner, Oct. 12 at the Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center.
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10/11/23
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Ken Schoenthaler has a lot to be optimistic about these days.
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Erin M. Gentz, NSP Editor
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10/11/23
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WEST LIBERTY -- The United States’ shift to renewable solar energy is happening whether or not locally elected officials allow Iowa landowners to participate. Land owners – not the legislature, county board or Farm Bureau – should decide what energy sources should come from farm land.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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10/10/23
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A new three-page credit card policy formalizes checks and balances Mayor Frank King said were adopted after the former city clerk was arrested on city credit card fraud charges.
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10/4/23
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MEDIC ambulance will retain its own, separate dispatching crew working side-by-side with Scott Emergency Communications Center when Scott County assumes the ambulance service Jan. 1.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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10/4/23
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Eldridge adopted new rules for public meetings and freedom of information requests that formally limit public speaking time, and add fees for some record requests.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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10/4/23
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Earlier this year, Oregon Democrats pushed through state legislation that allows local governments to require setbacks between neighbors and factory farming operations. The law prohibits farms from drawing unlimited amounts of free groundwater and requires farmers to apply for a permit before applying manure to their fields.
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Kevin Hardy, Stateline
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10/4/23
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Eldridge faces an open records lawsuit alleging the city unlawfully held closed meetings about hiring a new clerk, then redacted emails from council candidate Tisha Bousselot inquiring about the council’s closed meeting discussions.
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10/3/23
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The Scott County Library would see approximately $140 per month, or a 35 percent monthly rent increase under a proposal to be vetted and voted on at Eldridge’s 7 p.m., Oct. 16 council meeting at the community center.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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10/3/23
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Nine candidates will fill an Eldridge ballot for three seats on the Eldridge council.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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9/27/23
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The state Boards and Commissions Review Committee will recommend the elimination or merging of 111 of Iowa’s 256 boards and commissions, reversing some planned changes following public feedback.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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9/27/23
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Four incumbents and a second-time challenger will be on North Scott school board ballot Nov. 7.
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9/26/23
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