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Former members of the Benton County Board of Health are suing the supervisors and county over their termination in October. The petition contends the firings are connected to disputes over county-based medical system restructuring.
A draft of a new Iowa Administrative Code Chapter 65 released in September required new CAFOs near karst terrain to have a greater barrier between manure basins and the porous soil common in northeast Iowa. But the version the DNR sent to the Environmental Protection Commission in mid-November did not include that provision.
It's the second time Governor Kim Reynolds has rejected nominees submitted by the District 2B Judicial Nominating Commission.
Foreign investment in Iowa farmland more than doubled in the last 10 years, but Iowa still ranks in the bottom half of states for acres with foreign investment. Iowa’s foreign acres are less than 2 percent of privately-owned agricultural land.
By giving police officers the power to conduct garbage searches without a warrant, the law contradicts a recent Iowa Supreme Court ruling.