I think theyre selling themselves short, i think they have the talent and skills to raise that full 500,000 without city support. I would encourage the city council to vote yes on supporting arts and culture and attraction to this community so the businesses and the individuals that have continued to support the arts will move here, will raise their families here. If the Council Votes yes the lens could be in place sometime next year. If they vote no the Downtown District will have to decide if they want to raise the money for the project without a professional fundraiser. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Turning now to meteorologist joe winters. Joe, some very mild weather today. When you think of february weather normally snow, wind and cold come to mind. While we will have strong winds the next couple of days features no snowfall and mild temperatures. Highs should be able to rise into the 50s through 60s a definite possibility. Our milder than normal conditions contin
First, meteorologis t kaj omara has your first alert forecast, kaj. Our much anticipated warmup is here plan on windy conditions today with highs well into the 50s. The south half of the area will likely touch the lower 60s as well. Today will also come along with lots of wind with gusts to 45mph possible. Tomorrow is very much the better half of this warmup with highs well into the 50s, but with wind under 15mph. By sunday, a cold front comes along, but with a significant dent in the snowpack, if not complete elimination, we really wont get that cold with upper 40s likely. Next week still appears pretty quiet with only periodic bouts of clouds the most likely result. Highs will average in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Have a terrific weekend today m sunny, windy, mild high 5662 winds w 2030 g 45 alo 55 dbq 55 iow 61 tonight mostly clear winds w 1020 alo 35 dbq 35 iow 38 tomorrow mostly sunny, mild high 5359 winds w 510 alo 55 dbq 53 iow 59 tomorrow night partly cloudy low 3137 winds n 5
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Speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Mcnerney, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, i rise to celebrate the life and legacy of my friend, w. Ron cole who passed away on april 17, 2014. He was a native of stockton, california. He went to local schools, graduated from Stockton College and acquired a teaching certificate in the field of distribution from the university of california at berkeley. He was a veteran of the korean war, serving
The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for pet projects such as new teacher prep pardonness, which are redone ant of existing programs. Families deserve a better way forward. We needed administration to work with congress to advance Lasting Solutions facing schools nationwide. Instead of supporting ourests to strengthen education, the administration is implementing a con via luted scheme that has waivers to waivers that makes the secretarie