A Woodbury County judge has denied Navigator C02 Venture’s request for a temporary injunction against Moville landowners, Vicki and William Hulse. The Hulse’s property sits in the path of the carbon capture pipeline that Navigator is proposing to build across Iowa. The company claimed the couple violated the law by not allowing its land agents to survey their property.
But, today (Friday) Judge Roger Sailer rejected the company’s request to enter the Hulse’s property without permission. Now, the court will move forward with the landowners’ counterclaims – which challenge the constitutional right of a company to survey their land. Hulse is asking for an injunction to keep Navigator off her property until the constitutional claims canbe argued.
Much of the state of Iowa, including NW Iowa will be in a freeze warning tomorrow morning. Temperatures are expected to dip into the high 20s and low 30s early tomorrow morning, according to the National Weather Service. The chilly temperatures will be accompanied by widespread frost across most of the state.
The weather service recommends Iowans cover sensitive vegetation or take it inside and cover or drain outdoor pipes and unhook garden hoses to avoid the risk of pipes freezing or bursting.
An 84 year old Merrill man today was sentenced to mandatory life in prison without parole for killing his stepson. Knapp was sentenced in a Plymouth County District Court after being found guilty on September 13th. Knapp was sentenced for fatally shooting his stepson in May of 2020.
The Plymouth County jury also found Knapp guilty of willful injury, plus willful injury and two counts of domestic abuse assault for beating his wife, Darlene Knapp, just before the shooting.
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is traveling to every Iowa county hold public viewings of the testing that's done on voting machines. Pate says they want to be sure that everyone knows how the process works. Secretary Pate will be in Sioux City on October 28th at 9:00 a.m. at the Woodbury County Courthouse to test the equipment.
The voting machines are not connected to the internet during voting, only afterwards when the results are uploaded from precincts to each county election office.
Creighton Economist Ernie Goss says the problems that have slowed the Midwest economy are going to impact the holiday season as well.
He says they asked supply managers who deal with holiday sales about the expected activity as part of the September economic survey.
Goss says expectations for the holiday season are below what you would normally see. He also says supply chain disruptions were the number one concern for all supply managers in the September survey, followed by labor shortages.
Republican candidate for Iowa state treasurer Roby Smith says he’d speak up more than the current Democratic treasurer on state and federal policy matters.
Smith criticized Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald for not signing on in support of sweeping tax cuts passed by Republican lawmakers. And Smith says Fitzgerald should’ve opposed a Biden administration proposal that would’ve had the IRS collect information on bank accounts with more than 600-dollars in transactions per year.
“I don’t take this defeatist attitude that a state treasurer can’t affect anything on the federal level. You have a voice. You have a megaphone. You have the pulpit to do that. You chose not to. I will stand up to the IRS. I will stand up and protect taxpayers.”
Fitzgerald says the U.S. Treasury makes their decisions regardless of what state treasurers say. And that he only weighs in on state-level bills that directly affect the state’s finances.
The candidates made their comments today (Friday) during a taping of Iowa Press on Iowa PBS.
Iowa State University is planning to celebrate one of its most notable alumni throughout next year. A section of street north of Jack Trice Stadium will be renamed Jack Trice Way to commemorate his legacy.
It will be 100 years since Jack Trice sustained major injuries during a football game and died at the age of 21.
Trice was the University’s first African American athlete. He is already the namesake for the football stadium. It is the only stadium at a major U.S. football school that is named after a Black man.
