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Cedar Falls conversion ban passes August 18, 2014 10:00 pm • By Mike Anderson(1) Comments Cedar Falls rental moratorium faces fight CEDAR FALLS | City staff have finished writing a resolution to impose a six-month moratorium on new rental permits in parts of the city, but t… Read more Councilman applies for permit to turn his home into rental CEDAR FALLS | At-large councilman Nick Taiber has no plans to rent out his home in the Overman Park neighborhood, but on Aug. 15 he went to Ci… Read more Cedar Falls rental housing task force looks for focus CEDAR FALLS...

The president of a suburban water district on the verge of financial collapse reportedly paid himself, his girlfriend and her daughter a total of $111,000 a year to work jobs that an expert said are typically handled by volunteers. With little oversight, the water district — one of the smallest in the state, serving a working-class neighborhood east of downtown Aurora — became the first in Illinois to go into foreclosure in more than 30 years. The federal government took the highly unusual step of placing the Moecherville Water District in foreclosure last fall after it failed to make a...

An animal rights group has offered to double a fast-food restaurant's recent monetary gift to patch up the city's potholes. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said in a letter to Mayor Bill Bunten it wants to help improve Topeka's roads by giving the city $6,000, twice as much as Kentucky Fried Chicken gave to Topeka for the same purpose. In return, PETA wants the potholes stenciled with an evil Colonel Sanders next to the phrase, "KFC tortures animals."... The city was recently chosen by KFC as one of four cities to receive $3,000 for pothole repair. About 60...

D.C. officials were told last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board. An investigation conducted by Battelle Memorial Institute in August 2006 determined that the ticket thefts were most likely committed by field service technicians employed by Lottery Technology Enterprises... Lottery officials learned of questionable ticket sales in December 2005, when several District...

Past Stolen Pioneer St Mary's VETERAN Cemetary, Ventura needs help! Calling ALL Veterans, and concerned citizens. For you kind attention on this sad matter. Our elected officials will try to do everything they can to CONTINUE the current Ventura's policy of desecrating some 3000 past Ventura citizen's historic resting places. The area is now a public park and NOT St. Mary's Cemetery & Ventura's Cemetery as it was in the late '50's. ***ATTN: What is extremely shameful with St Marys (downtown ventura Calif) is that some of the many veterans interments are of real American heroes. There are several Medal...

A Two-City Tale New Orleans and Houston offer a study in contrasts. by Noemie Emery 09/06/2005 4:36:00 PM Late last week, as New Orleans was sliding into savage conditions, some talking heads were glowing with pleasure at the idea of a moral meltdown of such immense proportions that it would not only bury George Bush in its rubble, but erode forever the country's self confidence. Or, as Robert Scheer would happily write, "Instead of the much-celebrated American can-do machine that promises to bring freedom and prosperity to less fortunate people abroad, we have seen a callous official incompetence that puts...

News 4 WOAI is uncovering new details about the dog drownings in Jourdanton. First, WOAI has learned that the state health department is now reviewing the case and may launch an investigation, and second, the city supervisor who ordered the drownings failed the state's animal control test twice. The city supervisor, Chantan Morin got an “F” on the test in 1999 and failed again in 2000, officials said. Dr. Catherine Tull is the regional vet for the state department of health. She oversees the course. “We're probably the most comprehensive statewide available training that there is,” Tull said. The class...

Teen forced to close fair booth Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - Bangor Daily News Entrepreneur couldn't afford $5,000 for liability insurance BANGOR - Sometimes an early start can help, but it doesn't always make the first part of the road toward success any less bumpy. Ben Bustard, 17, found that out this week when he tried his hand at selling homemade toys at the Bangor State Fair. The budding entrepreneur from Bucksport came up with the $100 he initially was told he needed for $1 million worth of liability insurance, but he shut his booth down Tuesday after the projected...

KAKE News anonymously received a copy of an interoffice e-mail from the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer of the City of Wichita. The e-mail was sent nine months ago after an American flag was removed from a city break room. The e-mail was sent to city personnel department to explain why the flag was taken down. The e-mail reads, "Let's refrain from placing things in common areas that might appear to show a preference of one group over another… Shortly after 9/11, we had flags all over the place up front. In retrospect, that was probably not appropriate either." The e-mail...

Last week, the Arcata City Council considered a resolution to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Again we face the issue of whether our City Council should tackle national issues. A Town Hall meeting will take place Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Community Center's Senior Dining Room to ascertain the will of the public on this matter. 1. Should Arcata consider a resolution on a national matter, specifically to impeach the president and vice president? 2. Regardless of whether the Arcata City Council takes a stand, should Bush and Cheney be impeached?1. I question whether Meserve's...

<p>THE cause of this fire was sheer stupidity, coupled with a failed attempt at cooking dinner.</p> <p>A while back, a small fire ignited in a fry pan inside a kitchen in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, then erupted into a cabinet-licking monster.</p>

WOODINVILLE -- The mystery began last week, when 10-year-old Kaare Tollefson noticed the hole while walking to his school bus.It was no wider than a quarter then. But no one knew how deep it was.     King County transportation employees inspect a hole on 164th Avenue Northeast in Woodinville. Paul Kitagaki Jr. / Seattle Post-IntelligencerClick for larger photo "I went and got a broom handle and stuck it in the hole and it didn't hit," remembered Jim Van Noy. He then tried it with a 16-foot pole.It still didn't reach the bottom.Since then, the Hollywood Hills neighborhood has been...