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About two dozen volunteers from seven area departments took Fire Fight I class Feb. 25 at the Eldridge fire station to meet National Fire Protection standards.
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3/6/24
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Iowa cities and counties could not enact guaranteed income programs under a bill passed Monday by the Iowa House.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/6/24
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Legislation requiring schools to include information about vaccine exemptions in communications about immunization passed the Iowa Senate Monday.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/6/24
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Scott County Legislative Forum reconvenes 10 a.m., Saturday, March 9 at Scott Community College, Belmont Campus, 500 Belmont Road. The entrance to use is the Welcome Center entrance between doors 4 …
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3/6/24
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The Iowa House passed the Higher Education Reform Act, House File 2558 Feb. 28 on partisan lines, 56-39. As amended, the bill would cap tuition at 3% and freeze it for certain students’ four years of undergraduate studies and prohibit the creation of new administrator positions without Board of Regents’ approval.
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Brooklyn Draisey, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/6/24
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Iowa is poised to join states including Georgia and Utah in passing a state version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2024 as House lawmakers sent the legislation to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds Thursday.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/6/24
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"Democracy is easy to take for granted because we have always had it. But democracy in Iowa is weak and our freedoms are being chipped away by a very partisan government in Des Moines ..."
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3/6/24
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"Harmony and cooperation have been broken by the Republicans. Iowans deserve the freedom to join in a union. They deserve the right to negotiate for working conditions ..."
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3/6/24
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"... Trump wants to win to save his power over others. That’s his drug ..."
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3/6/24
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Our second legislative deadline for this year’s legislative session is getting closer. The eighth week of the session focused on debate, as well as starting our work on the bills we’ve received from the House of Representatives.
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Chris Cournoyer
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3/6/24
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Last week was filled with idea exchange, constituent input and debate/decision, below are the detailed results of that work along with a few additional highlights of activities in committee.
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Mike Vondran
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3/6/24
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Republicans in the Iowa Legislature say they don’t want politics in your kid’s classroom. But that’s not true. They don’t mind politics in your kid’s classroom—as long as it’s their politics.
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Ed Tibbetts
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3/6/24
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March 6, 1974: The North Scott School District purchased 13 acres of land in Park View for $26,000. While the site had been eyed for an elementary school in the past, the land purchase did not guarantee a school would be built there. Any construction would require a bond referendum.
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Compiled by Erin M. Gentz
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3/6/24
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Four years ago this week, on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, voters of Eldridge and the North Scott School District, in separate measures, gave thumbs up to funding a YMCA in Eldridge. The taxpayers would build it, and the YMCA of the Iowa Mississippi Valley would run it.
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Bill Tubbs
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3/6/24
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Eldridge Lions Club members pose with 101 Monarch memory tree ornaments at the Scott County Library in Eldridge.
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3/6/24
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Supervisors bought three Ford trucks from McGrath Auto, Hiawatha, which provided bids lower than Lindquist Ford, Bettendorf, and Stivers Ford, Waukee.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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3/6/24
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On Thursday, Feb. 29, members of the cast and crew of Lancer Productions' upcoming "Beauty and the Beast" gathered to help unload costumes, props and set pieces that were purchased from a school in Florida.
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3/6/24
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Council members voted to restrict future tobacco or vape stores to the city’s industrial areas.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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3/6/24
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200 South, North Scott’s premier jazz choir, earned a Division I rating and a near-perfect score at the State Jazz Choir Festival, held Feb. 5 at North Scott.
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3/6/24
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First: ADRIAN Middle: MASON Last: BUSSEY Affix: Permanent ID: 24-30679 Sex: Male Date of Birth: 1/10/1993 Current Age: 31 Age at Booking: 31 Height: 5' 05" Weight: 200 Pounds Race: African …
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3/6/24
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