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What happens next with the New Mexico Entity of the Central Arizona Project as an organization is anyone’s guess. If the political subdivisions that make up the Entity can smooth out their differences over the next several weeks, at least some of the original 14 voting members of the group that planned to build a Gila River diversion project could maintain an organizational framework that would serve as a “placeholder” …

Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review Front view of a 1939 Ford Sedan Full Custom Rod Panel Delivery at the 60th Annual MAXMotive World of Wheels at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. If it can be chopped, chromed or customized, some vehicle enthusiast will do it. And the results are likely to end up in the MAXMotive World of Wheels exhibition. The 60th annual premiere custom car show rolled into the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh on...

mikekben@grinnell.edu Legislation to restrict the teaching about systemic racism in Iowa public schools died before it could reach the governor, but state lawmakers have since passed a new law that restricts early voting, and are pushing ahead during a busy session with legislation to loosen gun control and fund charter schools. Grinnell’s state Representative Dave Maxwell explained his role in the legislature and his views on controversial legislation at a virtual March 6 event hosted by Grinnell’s League of Women Voters. Grinnell’s newly elected state Senator Dawn Driscoll did not att...

A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest from Thursday: SCHOOL FUNDING AGREEMENT: The Iowa House approved a 2.4 percent increase in K-12 school funding that will provide an additional $36.5 million for K-12 schools. That, along with other funding approved, would be an increase of $199 per pupil to $7,227. Rep. Cecil Dolecheck, R-Mount Ayr, said the House, which had proposed a 2.5 percent increase, reached agreement with the Senate, which approved a 2.2 percent increase earlier in the week. SF 269 now goes back to the Senate for concurrence before going to the governor. This...

By Jerrie Whiteley Kathy Scheibmeir advocates for victim's services For years, Mona Robnett with the Grayson County District Attorney's Office, asked the Grayson County Commissioner's Court to approve the application for the Violence Against Women Act grant that helps to pay for part of the salary for a domestic violence investigator for the DA's Office.  However, on Tuesday, the person who stepped into Robnett's shoes when she retired made the request of commissioners. The change in personnel was not lost on the court as some of them commented on it being the first time the grant had come...