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Jim Rudisill for The Hawk Eye WAPELLO — A drive to enhance rural and community water systems and internet service in Louisa County is continuing to gather steam, county supervisor Brad Quigley indicated Tuesday to the rest of the Louisa County supervisors during the board’s regular meeting. During the supervisors’ individual reports on meetings they had attended the previous week, Quigley said he and other area economic development officials met with representatives of Muscatine Power and Water and Louisa Communications to discuss expanding or enhancing their services in Louisa County. ...

Paul Caine | May 25, 2021 8:47 pm This story is part of Policing: A “Chicago Tonight” Special on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. Community activists and lawyers engaged in efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department have blasted Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPD leadership for failing to move quickly on implementation of a court-mandated consent decree that is supposed to ensure change. Thanks to our sponsors: “The consent decree requires meaningful engagement between impacted communities and the solutions to violent and racist policing. I think that the city has shown th...

They continue to push for civilian oversight of the police department and non-police alternatives to respond to mental health crises and provide public safety in schools.

Supervisors indicate support for new local option sales tax for unincorporated area of Louisa County Jim Rudisill for The Hawk Eye WAPELLO — A resolution of support for a Sept. 14 referendum on a new local option sales tax for the unincorporated area of Louisa County was approved Tuesday by the county board of supervisors during its regular weekly meeting. In addition to the resolution of support, the board also approved a Letter of Bond Counsel Services with John Danos, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Des Moines. Danos will help guide the referendum issue through the election for a fee of $3,500. Th...

  MONTREAL -- Roxanne Smith doesn't have much patience right now for the people she still sees saying that COVID-19 isn't real, or isn't serious -- especially if they're around her age. In a way, she can sympathize, she said, since she also used to believe that the virus didn't hit the young very hard. But that was before the 24-year-old landed in hospital for weeks, preparing for long-term debilitation. "I thought that there was some exaggeration -- that maybe François Legault put it maybe more [strongly] than necessary," Smith told CTV on Thursday from her hospital room in Quebec Cit...