Chances of rain still on track for this weekend. Rain ounts on this systemem main in question and well continue to monitor this system as we get closer to the weekend. Coralvilles big debt and what to do about it will coralvilles big debt and what to do about it will be a big topic at Tonights City Council meeting. On december 9th, moodys investors servicic downgraded the citys bond rating. Thats generally seen as a negative reflection of the citys finances and can make it harder for coralville to borrow money the bond rating dropped to the owest rating of Investment Grade on moodys scale. The company rated coralville this way because of its high debt and liabilities. Liabilities include things like ownership of a hotel and performance center. Coralville has about 267Million Dollars in debt. In iowa, only cedar rapids and des moines both much larger cities have more debt. The rating will have little impact on residents. They say they expect to see the city continue to grow. While coral
He said his campaign conducted its own poll and found about 75 percent of iowans are still undecided. A new National Poll shows the race for the republican ticket is in a dead heat. Quinnipiac university released new poll numbers just this morning. It shows donald trump is still leading the republican field. But senator ted cruz is closg the gap, now just 4 points behind trump. Florida senator marco o bio is in 3rd place e th 12 percent support. Doctor ben carson is the only other candidate in the double digits. The poll has a margin of error of 4 point 4 percent. The poll also found a majority of americans both republcans and democrats would be embarrassed to have donald trump as the face of the nation. 50 percent said it would be embarrassing, while 23 percent said they would be proud to have him as president. On the democratic side, Quinnipiac University found Hillary Clinton with more than sanders. 61 percent of likely democratic caucusgoers support clinton while 30 percent support
Pressure on us, getting an adequate agreement on Education Funding early in this session. Hogg and other lawmakers also want to see progress on cleaning up iowas polluted waterways, oversight on the states move toward privatized medicaid services, and more emphasis on helping small business. 29 43 weve become too focused on one thing only, and thats agriculture. We need to diversify even more. And that helps if we help those young people and people going through life changes in a startup situation for a business. In des moines, brady smith, kcrg tv 9 news. For the first time in history, a woman is leading the iowa house. Republican Linda Upmeyer from clear lake took over as iowas speaker of the house for the first time today. Upmeyer is taking the gavel from kraig paulsen, a republican from hiawatha who stepped down after last session. Three years ago, pam jochum became her partys first female Iowa Senate President , where she still serves. Between jochum and upmeyer, the Iowa Legislat
Wrong with the patrol boats. Americans now knkn president obamas vision for the country during his remaining year in office and beyond. Beyond. He issued his seventh and final state of the union last night. As expected the president didnt give congress a laundry list of todo items. Instead he touched on a number of accomplishments during the past year. That included the iran nuclear agreement, job creation, and the Climate Change deaeamade in parisislast month. But he also expressed frustration over the divide between republicans and democrats in congress. It doesnt work if we think the people who disagree with us are all motivated byby malice, or that our political opponents are unpatriotic or are trying to weaken america. Democracy grinds to a halt without a willingness to compromise. Or when even basic facts are contested, and we listenonly to those who agree wiwi us. Bipartisan agreements he thinks should get done. They include criminal Justice Reform and preventing Prescription Dr
2018 school year. Officials say the project is right on schedule. Most of the foundation has been put in and the site has been graded, a lot of the concrete block has gone up, about half of it is done, theyre laying about 2,000 blocks a day, there about 300,000 blocks in this building. Construction and the roads around the school is set to begin this march. It will be complete before the school opens. It will probably be a long summer out there if you drive that road regularly. Live in ic, mark carlson, kcrgtv9 news. The results of a special census last fall will help North Liberty get more funding for Road Construction projects like this. The census showed the citys population has grown to more than 18 thousand, which is up nearly five thousand from a census count in 2010. Thats 36 percent growth in five years. And it means North Liberty will get an additional and construction. Iowa lawmakers clocked in this morning for the 2016 legislative session. Shortly after that, Something Speci