A plan to add to the Eldridge police fleet stalled when council members disagreed about the need, and who controls thousands of dollars raised by on-duty police officers.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/8/23
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More than 5,000 Scott County homeowners applied for the new senior homestead property tax exemption available to those 65 and older.
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8/8/23
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New MEDIC ambulance director Paul Andorf expects county residents will notice little about the ambulance service’s transition from independent nonprofit to a full-fledged department of Scott County.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/8/23
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Martha Nieto brings 20 years of finance experience to Eldridge city hall, along with an eagerness to learn more.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/8/23
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The Eldridge city council and Scott County library board members will meet 6 p.m., Monday, Aug. 28, at the library to discuss the future of the library headquarters in Eldridge.
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8/8/23
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Eldridge council members will be able to consider a whole new range of uses for property zoned for industry.
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8/8/23
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Look for a half-million dollars in street patching this year and next under contracts approved Monday by Eldridge council members.
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8/8/23
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Princeton council members agreed to pay ex-police chief Wyatt Heyvaert $4,161 in unpaid compensatory, vacation and sick time after dismissing him July 12 from city staff.
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8/8/23
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Supervisors have spent about $9 million of the county’s $32.3 million pandemic aid check.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/8/23
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Iowa judges recently have sided with open government advocates trying to gain access to public records and attend public meetings — with the latest ruling requiring the state to pay $135,000 in legal fees for three media organizations denied records by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
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Erin Jordan of the Cedar Rapids Gazette
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8/8/23
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Let the petition-passing begin.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/1/23
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FORT PIERRE, S.D.— The economic benefits of a proposed carbon capture pipeline came under scrutiny last week during the second day of a permit hearing before South Dakota state regulators at the Casey Tibbs Rodeo Center.
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Joshua Haiar, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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8/1/23
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has finalized long-awaited reforms to how power generation projects get connected to the electric grid, a major step in smoothing the path for thousands of renewable power projects currently waiting to plug in.
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Robert Zullo, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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8/1/23
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Presidential contender Mike Pence will visit Scott County Republican Lincoln Club members at a private event, noon, Aug. 10, for those who have purchased memberships to the county party’s Lincoln Club.
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8/1/23
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Scott County will forego carbon pipeline regulation for now after learning about a new federal court ruling, meeting with Wolf Carbon Solutions staff, and hearing support from an ADM executive and a national pipefitters union leader.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/26/23
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Princeton residents will find out terms of former police chief Wyatt Heyvaert’s resignation only after he has approved it.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/26/23
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Supervisors bought 80 heavy-duty Panasonic Toughbook laptops and extra memory for sheriff’s squads and conservation officer vehicles for $315,945.60.
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7/26/23
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Scott County supervisors allocated $100,000 of federal pandemic relief to the Visit Quad Cities tourism agency, to help cover expenses and bidding fees that bring new events to the region.
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7/26/23
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Iowa tax credits worth $135,000 will be added to Eldridge’s $3.5 million tax break incentives to draw RILCO industrial lubricant plant from Rock Island to the old Bawden press building, 400 S. 14th Ave., Eldridge.
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7/26/23
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Eldridge will convene a public, committee of the whole meeting to discuss the Scott County Library’s renewed lease of the city-owned headquarters at 200 North Sixth Ave., Eldridge.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/19/23
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