City vision in residents’ hands, officials say (Houston County News)
About 30 people attended a question-and-answer session regarding La Crescent’s proposed redrafting of its zoning ordinance.
Census numbers tied to local funding (Houston County News)
Letters from the United States Census Bureau will be arriving in the mail beginning this week, reminding residents of the importance of participating in the 2010 census.
Newport not allowing reinforcement of flood levees (KAAL Austin)
The levee system in Newport is in such poor shape, officials are not allowing residents to fortify it with sandbags.
Quinn urges Ill. lawmakers to approve smaller tax hike devoted to education (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Calling himself a realist, Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday scaled back his proposal to raise income taxes, shifting to a call for an increase of just one percentage point to be used solely for preventing deep cuts to education.
Religion News in Brief (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
AMSTERDAM - A campaign to give elderly Netherlands residents the right to assisted suicide has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, enough to force a parliamentary debate on the matter.