
Jared Strong
Investigative Reporter at The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Investigative reporter for the Cedar Rapids Gazette
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6 days ago |
thegazette.com | Jared Strong
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Whether they employ a series of simple lagoons or more sophisticated equipment, wastewater treatment plants in Iowa rely on tiny helpers to cleanse the sewage from homes and businesses before sending that water downstream. Bacteria are the engines that power the facilities. The trick is: “How do we keep the bugs happy?” That's according to Michele Smith.
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6 days ago |
telegraphherald.com | Jared Strong
A northeast Iowa farmland owner does not have legal standing to sue the federal government for its “Swampbuster” wetland protections, but even if he did, the challenge would likely fail, a federal judge decided Thursday. Jim Conlan, a retired Chicago attorney, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture last year over its wetland designation for nine acres of his recently purchased farmland in Delaware County, about 35 miles northeast of Cedar Rapids.
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1 week ago |
thegazette.com | Jared Strong
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A northeast Iowa farmland owner does not have legal standing to sue the federal government for its "Swampbuster" wetland protections, but even if he did, the challenge would likely fail, a federal judge decided Thursday.
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1 week ago |
thegazette.com | Jared Strong
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Residents of a wooded neighborhood with about 30 homes north of Iowa City must — in the next year — curb their chloride contamination of a nearby creek, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. In recent years the DNR has noted more than 100 wastewater violations for the Timber Trails Estates Homeowner's Association, department records show.
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1 week ago |
thegazette.com | Jared Strong
In this 2013 photo, Mark Farrington, of Mechanicsville, plants soybean seeds in a field east of Tipton. According to the most recent crops report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, corn and soybean planting in Iowa are days ahead of the five-year average. (The Gazette) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced.
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