Gale Klappa, who retired as chief executive on May 1, received compensation valued at $11.1 million, including stock awards with an estimated value of $7.4 million.
any inert material inserted into a body cavity for therapeutic purposes.
The bill is officially supported by the Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
It is opposed by a long list of groups, including the
- American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa
- Iowa State Association of Counties
- AARP Iowa
- Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
- Iowa State Education Association,
- League of Women Voters of Iowa
- League of United Latin American Citizens
- Iowa Developmental Disabilities Counci
- One Iowa Education Fund
- Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
- Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund.
The measures, Assembly Bill 105 and Senate Bill 76, would eliminate state reviews of existing permits for any high-capacity wells when they are repaired, replaced, or sold in a real estate transaction. High-capacity wells allow users, which include large farms, food processors, and frac-sand operations, to pump up to 100,000 gallons of water a day for irrigation and other needs.
Environmentalists and others say the high-capacity wells have caused some rivers, lakes, and streams around the state to shrink or even dry up during the summer, damaging fish, wildlife, and their habitat.
Milt Habeck is demanding the dismissal of the principal, president of the board of education and two pastors at Trinity Lutheran Church & School, where his three children attend under the Racine Parental Choice voucher program.
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Habeck said Amling appears to have interpreted "Dillys" to mean dildos, or penis-shaped sex toys, and that his daughter and her friends had no knowledge of the word.
The agency says it used data compiled by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Highway Administration to draw up its map, also borrowing the tools of both to determine average daily noise levels produced by transportation.
Overall, the majority of voters, at 54 percent, said they support keeping the law in place but making improvements to it. Twenty-eight percent said they want the law repealed and replaced, as Republicans are currently trying to do, while 8 percent want it repealed with no replacement. Just six percent said they want to keep the law, as is.
“This is the country that elected Donald Trump,” said Garth Gardiner, driving a pickup across the 48,000-acre Angus beef ranch he runs with his two brothers. They lost about 500 cows in the fires. “I think he’d be doing himself a favor to come out and visit us.”
Mr. Gardiner voted for Mr. Trump, and said he just wanted to hear a presidential mention of the fires amid Mr. Trump’s tweets about the rapper Snoop Dogg, the East Coast blizzard and the rudeness of the press corps.
Mr. Waltimire, 54, was able to sign up for the government health insurance program last year because Ohio expanded it to cover more than 700,000 low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act. He voted for President Trump — in part because of Mr. Trump’s support for law enforcement — but is now worried about the Republican plan to effectively end the Medicaid expansion through legislation to repeal the health care law.
“Originally the president said he wasn’t going to do nothing to Medicaid,” Mr. Waltimire said the other day after a rehab session. “Now they say he wants to take $880 billion out of Medicaid. That’s going to affect a lot of people who can’t afford to get insurance.”
