The owner of dozens of snakes removed from a Sioux City home Monday says he wants city leaders to change laws that currently ban his animals within city limits.
Parker Moos tells the Sioux City Journal that the ball pythons taken from his home are classified as dangerous animals. But he says this particular type doesn't grow nearly as long or heavy as other pythons and it is not dangerous, Moos said.
Moos is a Sioux City Realtor who has launched an online petition drive on Change.org to gain support for an ordinance change. By Thursday morning, more than 400 of a hoped-for 1,000 signatures had been received. Moos plans to address the Sioux City Council in the near future and ask council members to amend the code.
A wind farm proposed for the southwest corner of Iowa has cleared one major hurdle, according to Radio Iowa.
The Fremont County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved Invenergy’s application for its Shenandoah Hills project. The site south of Shenandoah extends into Page County as well. Officials in Page County are still reviewing the company’s application.
The Fremont County board’s approval came after a two-hour-long public hearing yesterday. Opponents at the hearing said that the project will not benefit the community. Supporters say the turbines will boost the county’s economy.
The Iowa Transportation Commission will hold a meeting in Sioux City next month to hear about local transportation matters.
The public input meeting is scheduled for 8 a.m. Aug. 9 at the Sioux City Convention Center, 801 Fourth St. Public input will be taken after a brief business meeting.
Items that may be discussed include the Iowa Transportation Improvement Program, transportation policies and highway and other public transit issues.
A federal judge will allow most of a lawsuit brought by a Christian student organization against the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to move forward.
Ratio Christi, which started at UNL in 2018 to promote the "historical, scientific, and philosophical reasons to believe Christianity is true," sued the university after it was denied funding to bring a speaker to campus.
All eight members of the NU Board of Regents, as well as several administrators, the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska, and the University Program Council were named in the suit.
The University Program Council, which distributes more than $270,000 in funds collected from student fees, denied the request, telling Ratio Christi the Event Fund could not be used to finance "political campaigns, or speakers of a political or ideological nature."
