………………. recently drew public attention to Polk County’s need for a new courthouse. Our beautiful building is no longer capable of serving its intended function. Bravo-most people have no idea how inadequate is the Polk County Courthouse. The beautiful old building has become dangerous and dysfunctional as a working judicial center for a large metropolitan county.
Court personnel are crammed into nooks in corners of the fourth floor and would be clearly in danger during fires. Judges have recently shared chambers with rats, the rodents, not the lawyers. Air conditioners are sometimes so loud they have to be disengaged in the summer so that the juries can hear the testimony during trials. Let me tell, 85 degrees in a wool suit when one is stressed bespeaks a poor working environment. The Courthouse is far too small; several important judicial functions are already spread out all over town. Too few elevators and too few bathrooms make the building unpleasant for its current traffic. A large new tower in the 10-20 floor range due south of the Courthouse would be perfect. The old building was built for a county that was a fifth our current size. A legal system that has grown like cell phone useage in Baghdad has exponentially compounded the problem.
Modernizing the existing Courthouse could provide Polk County with a wonderful and historic community center, similar to Hoyt Sherman and/or an upscale boutique mall like Union Station in Washington D.C. Restoring the old large courtrooms with the balconies and galleries would create fabulous large meeting rooms-great locations for presidential campaign events, for sure. The growing and increasingly cosmopolitan Des Moines Downtown would become an even better destination point with a combination of a new, functional and modern courthouse and a beautiful, artistic and historic community/convention center.
But this dream may never be realized. Unfortunately, the Polk County Democrat Machine has both rendered the County far short of the funds needed for such urgent public projects that benefit everyone in the County and terrified the public into giving them more money after the event center and jail projects’ evolution into overpriced monuments to the grossly disproportionate power unions have over the taxpayers of Polk County. The average taxpayer could hardly be criticized for fearing the very badly needed new courthouse and superior meeting center would make them thrice fooled and more impoverished.
Here’s the answer, let’s demand the Democrat Supervisor’s agree to this project without the necessity for a project labor agreement. What about it guys, surely the great public need for a new courthouse and a transformation of the existing Courthouse outweighs the need to even further enrich the labor bosses who fund your campaigns?
Court personnel are crammed into nooks in corners of the fourth floor and would be clearly in danger during fires. Judges have recently shared chambers with rats, the rodents, not the lawyers. Air conditioners are sometimes so loud they have to be disengaged in the summer so that the juries can hear the testimony during trials. Let me tell, 85 degrees in a wool suit when one is stressed bespeaks a poor working environment. The Courthouse is far too small; several important judicial functions are already spread out all over town. Too few elevators and too few bathrooms make the building unpleasant for its current traffic. A large new tower in the 10-20 floor range due south of the Courthouse would be perfect. The old building was built for a county that was a fifth our current size. A legal system that has grown like cell phone useage in Baghdad has exponentially compounded the problem.
Modernizing the existing Courthouse could provide Polk County with a wonderful and historic community center, similar to Hoyt Sherman and/or an upscale boutique mall like Union Station in Washington D.C. Restoring the old large courtrooms with the balconies and galleries would create fabulous large meeting rooms-great locations for presidential campaign events, for sure. The growing and increasingly cosmopolitan Des Moines Downtown would become an even better destination point with a combination of a new, functional and modern courthouse and a beautiful, artistic and historic community/convention center.
But this dream may never be realized. Unfortunately, the Polk County Democrat Machine has both rendered the County far short of the funds needed for such urgent public projects that benefit everyone in the County and terrified the public into giving them more money after the event center and jail projects’ evolution into overpriced monuments to the grossly disproportionate power unions have over the taxpayers of Polk County. The average taxpayer could hardly be criticized for fearing the very badly needed new courthouse and superior meeting center would make them thrice fooled and more impoverished.
Here’s the answer, let’s demand the Democrat Supervisor’s agree to this project without the necessity for a project labor agreement. What about it guys, surely the great public need for a new courthouse and a transformation of the existing Courthouse outweighs the need to even further enrich the labor bosses who fund your campaigns?
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...the first person seeking a congressional seat in a Siouxland state has announced his candidacy.
Rob Hubler, a retired Presbyterian minister and a Democrat from Council Bluffs, on March 27 will begin a four-day swing through western Iowa to officially announce his candidacy for the Iowa 5th District congressional seat held by three-term Republican Steve King of Kiron.
On March 27, Hubler will appear at 3:15 p.m. at the Sioux City downtown library, and on March 28 he will have events in Rock Rapids, Storm Lake and Carrroll to discuss his “campaign to give all the people of western Iowa a stong voice in Washington.”
In Hubler’s press release, the word “all” in the above quote is italicized, so it’s a barb that King isn’t adequately representing the people of the 5th District.
Iowa's population is up slightly, with Dallas County leading the way.
The county's population grew 5 percent last year, making it the fastest-growing county in Iowa and the 33rd fastest-growing county in the nation. More than 54,000 people live in Dallas County.
Linn County has topped the 200,000 mark, becoming the state's second county with more than 200,000 residents.
Polk County has a population of nearly 409,000.
Overall, Iowa's population grew 1.9 percent to almost 3 million.
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